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Best Korea won Asian U16 Championship

tongkatsu — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:27:37 +0800

Best Korea won 2 - 1.

Sos here: http://www.the-afc.com/en/tournaments/men/...ship-final.html

FC Barcelona (2014/2015)

tongkatsu — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:32:23 +0800

Barca Senior Squad:

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Barca B Squad:

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Khairy say mid-table better than top 4

tongkatsu — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:14:26 +0800

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Malaysia has to transform itself to a knowledge-based economy in order to "get on" rather than "get by", said Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

Using a football analogy, Khairy told the crowd of more than 800 students that Malaysia should be more like Manchester United rather than Arsenal, which, he said, was only "getting by".

"We can't be like Arsenal and just get by without winning," he said of the London-based football club which won the FA Cup last season after a 8-season dry spell, as the students erupted into laughter.

"We must be more like Manchester United. We must start winning," he said of the English premier league club which finished seventh last season, ending up with no trophy, and also lost its opening game at home to Swansea City in the new EPL season which kicked-off last weekend.

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysi...h.gToFZzFF.dpuf

Douglas Lim's song "I hate k-pop"

tongkatsu — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:32:46 +0800

[YOUTUBE]lUvqOLMe0Mg[/YOUTUBE]

Convert, pay tax, or die

tongkatsu — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:04:12 +0800

Islamist insurgents have issued an ultimatum to northern Iraq's dwindling Christian population to either convert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face death, according to a statement issued by the Islamic State (Isis) and distributed in the militant-controlled city of Mosul. The al-Qaida offshoot that led last month's lightning assault to capture swathes of northern Iraq said the ruling would come into effect on Saturday.

In the statement, Isis said Christians who wanted to remain in the "caliphate" declared earlier this month in parts of Iraq and Syria must agree to abide by terms of a "dhimma" contract – a historic practice under which non-Muslims were protected in Muslim lands in return for a special levy known as "jizya". "We offer them three choices: Islam; the dhimma contract – involving payment of jizya; if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword," the announcement said.

A resident of Mosul said the statement, issued in the name of the Islamic State in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, had been distributed on Thursday and read out in mosques. It said that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which the group has now named Caliph Ibrahim, had set a Saturday deadline for Christians who did not want to stay and live under those terms to "leave the borders of the Islamic Caliphate". "After this date, there is nothing between us and them but the sword," it said.

The Nineveh decree echoes one that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the former name for the Islamic State, issued in the Syrian city of Raqqa in February, demanding that Christians pay the jizya levy in gold and curb displays of their faith in return for protection.

The concept of dhimma, governing non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, dates back to the early Islamic era in the seventh century, but was largely abolished during the Ottoman reforms of the mid-19th century.

Mosul, once home to diverse faiths, had a Christian population of around 100,000 a decade ago, but waves of attacks on Christians since the 2003 US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein have seen those numbers collapse.

The Mosul residents who saw the Islamic State announcement estimated the city's Christian population before last month's militant takeover at around 5,000. The vast bulk of those have since fled, leaving perhaps only 200 in the city.

Above taken from http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/...iraq-christians

Australian family lost family members in

tongkatsu — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:47:13 +0800

An Australian family mourning their son and his wife learnt that their step-granddaughter and her husband were on MH17.

In a cruel twist of fate, an Australian family who lost two of their members in the MH370 crash on Friday learned that two more from their extended family were on the ill-fated Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine.

Irene and George Burrows of central Queensland are still mourning their son Rodney and his wife Mary who were on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 over the southern Indian Ocean.

The Burrows have now learned that their step-granddaughter Maree Rizk and her husband Albert, from Sunbury near Melbourne, were among the Australians killed on flight MH17.

The two were returning home from a month-long holiday with friends in Europe, ABC News reported.

The Boeing 777 was carrying 298 people, including 28 Australians, when it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over rebel-held territory in Ukraine. The plane was en route to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, from Amsterdam.

Above taken from http://indianexpress.com/article/world/eur...-to-mh17-crash/