--Swastika--

The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika स्वस्तिक ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. The swastika can also be drawn as a traditional swastika, but with a second 90° bend in each arm.

Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period. An ancient symbol, it occurs mainly in the cultures that are in modern day India and the surrounding area, sometimes as a geometrical motif (as in the Roman Republic and Empire) and sometimes as a religious symbol. It was long widely used in major world religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

Though once commonly used all over much of the world without stigma, because of its iconic usage in Nazi Germany the symbol has become controversial in the Western world.
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--44th US President--

Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States.

A crowd of 125,000 people jammed Grant Park in Chicago, where Obama addressed the nation for the first time as its president-elect at midnight ET. Hundreds of thousands more — Mayor Richard Daley said he would not be surprised if a million Chicagoans jammed the streets — watched on a large television screen outside the park.

“If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama declared.

“Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he said. “We have been and always will be the United States of America.

“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America,” he said to a long roar.
McCain notes history in the makingObama congratulated his opponent, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, for his “unimaginable” service to the United States, first as a prisoner of war for 5½ years in North Vietnam and then for nearly three decades in Congress.

McCain called Obama to offer his congratulations at 11 p.m. ET, Obama’s chief spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told NBC News. Obama thanked McCain for his “class and honor” during the campaign and said he was eager to sit down and talk about how the two of them could work together.

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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27531033/?GT1=43001

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~http://edition.cnn.com/

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~http://www.cnbc.com/

--Inward - Wong Chee Meng 2008--

Gallerie TAKSU KL is hosting a solo exhibition by Wong Chee Meng entitled Inward. The exhibition is from 23 October 2008 and continues until 8 November 2008.

Come and enter into Chee Meng's world, born of this millennium’s blips and bytes of digital technology and computer design which resonate with the tenant of abstraction or a kind of sentimental modernism. His arts all have an exciting visual acceleration, fluttering between layers of unconventional colour and an intricate web of dots, lines and forms.

Overall, they appear out of register, a little like a flawed screenprint.Chee Meng’s sight was impaired through an accident that left him with a condition known as stereo-blind, the inability to differentiate between shapes, dimension and depth. As a result, Wong fractures and flattens perspective. His paintings are not ‘out of focus’ par sé, quite the contrary; they definitively record a unique view of the world.

http://www.timeoutkl.com/art/events/Inward
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http://www.kakiseni.com/events/misc/MTE0MTk.html

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http://www.ihmcf.org/lifa/participants/cheemeng.html

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http://www.taksu.com/

--Judgment of His-story--

WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Democrat Barack Obama faced a tense wait Tuesday to see if millions of American voters would enshrine him as the first black president or whether Republican John McCain would mount a shock comeback.

The two presidential rivals could do nothing but await their fates in a presidential and Congressional election which could see a rare political and generational realignment in the United States.

http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081104/tts-us-vote-972e412.html
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27531033/?GT1=43001

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http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Malaya_Medical_Centre
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http://www.um.edu.my/

--Cambodia--

The Kingdom of Cambodia (pronounced /kæmˈboʊdiə/, formerly known as Kampuchea (/kæmpuːˈtʃiːə/), , transliterated: Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchea) is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 14 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh. Cambodia is the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese Peninsula between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries.

A citizen of Cambodia is usually identified as "Cambodian" or "Khmer," though the latter strictly refers to ethnic Khmers. Most Cambodians are Theravada Buddhists of Khmer extraction, but the country also has a substantial number of predominantly Muslim Cham, as well as ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese and small animist hill tribes.

The country borders Thailand to its west and northwest, Laos to its northeast, and Vietnam to its east and southeast. In the south it faces the Gulf of Thailand. The geography of Cambodia is dominated by the Mekong river (colloquial Khmer: Tonle Thom or "the great river") and the Tonlé Sap ("the fresh water lake"), an important source of fish.

Cambodia's main industries are garments, tourism, and construction. In 2007, foreign visitors to Angkor Wat numbered more than 4 million. In 2005, oil and natural gas deposits were found beneath Cambodia's territorial water, and once commercial extraction begins in 2011, the oil revenues could profoundly affect Cambodia's economy.

~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia

--A GOOD TALK--

A man decides to hunt

for fur against the cold.

He knows how to confront

surprises that trails unfold.

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At dusk he finds a cave

to spend the night and stay

alive and also save

his strengh to hunt his prey.

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A bear comes out to spy

and understands it should

protect its fur and try

somehow to get its food.

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Before they start to fight

the wily bear pleads

for peace and for the right

to talk about their needs.

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The hunter trusts the bear,

and to the cave they walk,

each one to get the share

won in a simple talk.

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~http://www.sumauma.net/amazonian/poems/poems-talk.html