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            <title>Malaysia Internut speed</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3585540</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/L7GWDKq.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteBegin--&gt;&lt;div class='quotetop'&gt;QUOTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='quotemain'&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEBegin--&gt;Almost three times slower than Vietnam, Malaysia at 5.48 Megabits per second (Mbps) was ranked a low 126 out of 192 countries surveyed from May 2013 to April this year in the recent Net Index.&lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;apa kemaslanan is this  &lt;!--emo&amp;:stars:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/rclxub.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rclxub.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;</description>
            <author>heisttech</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 03:24:00 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Best country in Solo MMR (SEA)</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3584921</link>
            <description>Well Top Solo MMR in SEA recently monopoly by Philippines players. What about top 100? Does the majority &lt;br /&gt;and average solo mmr show the same results? From the top 100 lists, &lt;b&gt;there 31% players are from Philippines &lt;br /&gt;followed by Malaysia 16% and Singapore 13%&lt;/b&gt;. This shown that Philippines have the most top rating players in South East Asia to date.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/4jkjiWf.jpg]http://i.imgur.com/4jkjiWf.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numbers doesnt tell us about the strength of each solo players in top 100. We counted the average rating &lt;br /&gt;per country and above are the results. Despite having 31% players, &lt;b&gt;Philippines still No 1 in average Solo MMR &lt;br /&gt;in South East Asia. Surprisely, Vietnam came 2nd and Australia 3rd. Malaysia average drop to No 6 in the top 100&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/wh9jiPs.jpg]http://i.imgur.com/wh9jiPs.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To illustrate the situation better, we compare the average mmr and top mmr from each country. This will show &lt;br /&gt;the different of average packs of players and the top mmr. From this list, Philippines still lead the chart and Vietnam 2nd. &lt;br /&gt;Malaysia follow up in 3rd place.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;There no doubt, in Solo mmr Phillipines is the best country in Sea.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;!--emo&amp;:x--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/doh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='doh.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  Solo and team are different and &lt;br /&gt;we can't really compare it. Solo is solo,  team is team. Both have its own credit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/RLj7RSW.jpg]http://i.imgur.com/RLj7RSW.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;inb4 bobo &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOS &lt;a href='http://www.e-sukan.com/#!Which-country-is-the-best-in-SEA-Solo-MMR-Here-are-some-analysis/c1r22/555d58720cf24874174a30cb' target='_blank'&gt;E-sukan&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>heisttech</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 14:23:50 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Christian Militia Defends Ancient Settlement</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3584823</link>
            <description>A few hundred Christian militants are at the vanguard of a fight in far north-eastern Syria to preserve &lt;br /&gt;some of the last major Christian pockets within the swath of central Arabia conquered by Islamic State.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the past week, about 450 militiamen have tried to defend four Assyrian Christian villages among a cluster &lt;br /&gt;of 30 ancient settlements in Hassakeh province that had survived more than two millennia of war, invasion and insurrection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isis has shelled the area from its outskirts, ransacked its ancient core, and chased men, women and children &lt;br /&gt;into exile, capturing at least 300 hostages and killing dozens more. In doing so, the jihadi group has all but fulfilled &lt;br /&gt;its pledge to rid the area it controls – from Raqqa in Syria to Mosul in Iraq – of anyone who does not submit to its draconian ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/2/1425298840368/c3dde633-80fb-4849-9088-082ed6049fbb-620x372.jpeg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purge has led to the plains of Iraq’s Nineveh province being emptied of its entire Christian population, &lt;br /&gt;as well as of Yazidis, Shabaks and Turkmen. Until Isis stormed through the area last August, roughly 80,000 &lt;br /&gt;Chaldean Christians had continued to live there even after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 – which saw the &lt;br /&gt;number of Iraqi Christians fall by more than 70%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Syria though, the upheaval across the border, its own civil war and then the rise of the jihadis had not &lt;br /&gt;had the same existential effect on the Assyrians. Until now. Last Monday, an estimated 8,000 Assyians &lt;br /&gt;remained in the heartland area near Hassakeh province. That number could now be as low as 2,000 and is falling fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sanhareb Barsom, an official with the Syriac Union party, which is providing humanitarian aid to the refugees, &lt;br /&gt;said that 100 families from the besieged villages had settled in Qamishli, while 2,000 refugees have fled to the &lt;br /&gt;provincial capital, Hassakeh. He described the situation as “catastrophic”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/SDpoP7U.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“These people have broken down,” he said. “Their emotional state is very bad because some of the families &lt;br /&gt;have had members taken captive by Daesh.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kino Gabriel, one of the leaders of the Syriac Military Council, an Assyrian Christian militia, said the fight was existential. &lt;br /&gt;“[We are] like a tree that you uproot from its land,” he said. “We are a people with a historic lineage. We have been &lt;br /&gt;contributing to human civilisation for five or six thousand years, and we can still give.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fighters, along with modest Kurdish reinforcements, are trying to defend Tal Tamr, a town that straddles a tributary &lt;br /&gt;of the Euphrates river. The Assyrians in the area had taken refuge there three generations ago, fleeing the &lt;br /&gt;Simele massacre of their people by the Iraqi kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/osbimPA.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Isis attack on the villages appeared tailored to draw forces away from Tal Hamis, where it is battling a Kurdish &lt;br /&gt;push aimed at forcing the group further to the east. The fate of the hostages remains unclear, with some members &lt;br /&gt;of the community believing Isis intends to trade them for its own captured fighters, or use them as human shields. &lt;br /&gt;Others though, mindful of public executions of Egyptian Copts by Isis militants in Libya, fear a similar grisly spectacle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We will defend ourselves,” said Gabriel. “We will not allow another Seyfo to happen to us [in reference to a pogrom &lt;br /&gt;perpetrated by the Ottoman’s early last century]. We will sacrifice everything.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2015/3/1/d9098b1ce5614cd8be03af6b532cd622_18.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We want help and support from all the democratic forces in the world that are fighting the extremism in the Middle East, &lt;br /&gt;to stop these enemies of humanity,” he said. “Their targeting of our people, the Syriacs, has been ongoing. What they did &lt;br /&gt;in Iraq … and [elsewhere in] Syria shows that this is what they want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“After a couple of generations, the culture will disappear. Nobody will remember us.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/Z2eMRG1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Assyrians say they deserve support like the Kurds in Kobani, the peshmerga in Iraq and the Yazidis on Mount Sinjar.&lt;br /&gt;“We stood with Kobani and supported the resistance there and we are now facing the same thing,” said Gabriel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He urged coalition air strikes to protect the remaining population and what is left of the Assyrian civilisation, just as they &lt;br /&gt;protected the Kurdish town of Kobani to the west. The air strikes saved Kobani from falling to Isis, but destroyed at least &lt;br /&gt;50% of the town in the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Kurds of north-eastern Syria and northern Iraq remain the only robust minority presence in the area now, and most of &lt;br /&gt;the Nineveh exiles have sought refuge in or near the Kurdish hub of Irbil in northern Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/6267484-3x2-940x627.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The bombings provide support, but there needs to be a presence on the ground, to take control and liberate areas, and &lt;br /&gt;destroy Daesh,” said Gabriel. “We are fighting Daesh on the ground, we have a democratic project, and on this basis we &lt;br /&gt;demand support for the forces here.”</description>
            <author>heisttech</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 12:25:39 +0800</pubDate>
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