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8th Edition: Failson squad assemble！edition.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! South Asia and Oceania posters can come in to discuss their regional politics as well.
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>>1819473>>1821051>Myanmar state forces seen running across The Thai-Myanmar boarderAre they defecting or something? short qrd if possible plz
No.1821728
>>1821143Yep.
Also, Thai media found out after dug up for sometime that usa is behind KNU. Soon Burma is going to be power playing field for India, China, and USA.
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I only worry what happens now. Will the ethnic militias fight each other or come together to form a federal government?
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>>1821799Wa, and Southern Shan militia will fight each other for sure since Burmese junta government gave a lot of land seized from Southern Shan people to Wa when they were close ally.
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>>1821728>Are they defecting or something? Yes, they're all currently sat under the bridge hoping they wont be bombed there, many civilians have crossed also temporarily, worried that having lost the ground the army will now start bombing.
In Politics MP's have been doing the round saying it's over for the military now and are concerned about planes entering Thai airspace.
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>>1828007>according to three bank documents and new official information provided to Reuters by a person with access to the documents.<person couldn't be disclosed because "reasons"<source: I made it up>SCB is one of the biggest banks<Literally in the top 50 not even the top 20Bitch please, the loan amounts of giants like Viettinbank and Techcombank are 10 times the literally who like SCB. This is where you know reuters basically knows fuck all about vietnamese banking sector.
Reuters have a history of doing this bullshit for years. Because whenever they ended up being false they just chalked it up as if nothing happened. Last time I heard of this was sungroup restructuring and nordic bank joining in.
In other actual criticism of the state, other infrastructural development corporation got whacked over being dogshit at delivering projects,
AGAINFucking good on china for never privatizing their construction SOEs. Making infrastructural developement a breeze.
Arrested businessman’s fingerprints cover Thuan An Grouphttps://theinvestor.vn/arrested-businessmans-fingerprints-cover-thuan-an-group-d9583.html>Hanoi-based Thuan An Group JSC has grown rapidly thanks to winning construction contracts for projects across the country that bear the mark of 50-year-old businessman Nguyen Duy Hung.
>However, Hung, chairman of the company, was detained on Monday for “violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences”, and “bribery”.
>In 2023, the consortium of Construction Corporation No. 1 - Truong Son Construction Investment JSC - Dat Phuong Group JSC - Thuan An Group won a package to build Dai Ngai 2 bridge and connecting roads with a total value of VND2,073 billion ($82 million). No.1828410
>>1828400I'm glad Vietnam won the war and doesn't have to suffer under capitalism like everyone else.
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Holy shit. It's finally confirmed that le tung van the cult leader had sex with his own children and grandchildren.
https://vnexpress.net/ong-le-tung-van-bi-khoi-to-toi-loan-luan-4736150.html>Mr. Le Tung Van, 92 years old, living at "Bong Lai monastery", was prosecuted for incest, after a period where the authorities clarified criminality of the crime complaints.On April 19, Mr. Van was prosecuted by the Security Investigation Agency of Long An Provincial Police and released on bail for health reasons. The defendant is carrying a 5-year prison sentence for the crime of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, organizations, and individuals, which has not yet been carried out.
This move was made a period after the investigative agency had verified extent the anonymous criminal complaint, claiming that Mr. Van had committed incestuous acts. To date, the investigation agency has determined that there is enough evidence that the defendant had an incestuous relationship with her biological child living in Ms. Cao Thi Cuc's household, in Lap Thanh hamlet, Hoa Khanh Tay commune, Duc Hoa district. The Security Investigation Agency is continuing their investigations into the matter.
Why does this literallywho matter? The US officially listed the fucker as "being religiously repressed" by the CPV.
For fuck sake raping your own kids to produce a line of inbred offspring isn't freedom of religion you sick fuck!https://www.state.gov/irfba-chairs-statement-on-vietnamese-religious-prisoners-of-conscience/>I note with concern the imprisonment of Lê Tùng Vân, the 92-year-old founder and spiritual leader of the unaffiliated Buddhist Group in Long An Province, Vietnam, by the Đức Hoà District People’s Court on 21 July 2022; along with five other members of this religious group. The charges and convictions were premised upon allegations of distorting Buddha’s teaching and defaming the Public Security Office of Đức Hoà District and Buddhism. The allegations were made as a direct result of the prisoners conducting home-based religious practices and religious activities independent of the Buddhist Church of Vietnam. No.1828965
Anyone going to the Labour Day at the People Park in May 1st? Any kakis?
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>>1828969singlish for friends.
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>>1830917Maybe to vague a question but was is the feeling on the street with regard to the leadership and the performance of the state?
No.1831696
>>1830921The indonesians are colonialists and the australians are opportunists using the rebels for their own gains. Evil vs evil. The rebels are basically similar to the IRA as they want a different system if they were to be united with papua new guinea. But are pretty aimless due to only existing as a reaction to indon atrocities.
>>1831389The lower level bureaucrats are worried about making any economic decisions. And stuff has been going worse security wise ever since to lam took over pucsec (3 consecutive terrorist attacks) due to him intwentionally wrecking to cause discorse. A lot of people supports trong but anxious about his health and what will happen post Trong in 2025 especially if Lam stays around.
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>>1828400Continuing the case on thuan an, the assistant to Vuong Dinh Hue just got arrested. So he's next on the chopping block. That's 5/16 that got sacked up to this point.
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/crime/assistant-to-vietnam-s-top-lawmaker-arrested-for-power-abuse-4737118.html No.1832371
>>1831696>they want a different system if they were to be united with papua new guineaWhat different system do they envision?
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>>1815037Common Tatmadaw L
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>>1835341I just hope this doesn't end up with Aung San Suu Kyi overseeing the partition of the country
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Aung San Suu Kyi is pro-china while Karen is glowing in the dark what is going to happened next in SEA is interesting.
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>>1831987And now Hue is gone as well. Wasn't he the preferred candidate for Trong's successor? What happens now?
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>>1836708>>1836401Maybe I am wrong but thry outed him for relatively old things, no?
I sincerely hope this anti-corruption anti-missmanagment purges does not backfire..
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>>1837459Southern pride be like
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>>1839471It was NVA, and VC tactical victory, but it was also Amerikkka strategically victory.
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>>1839482>we still wonKeep coping dennis prager. You still won the urine and feces award.
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>>1839482>it was also Amerikkka strategically victory.In what sense? That Vietnam was a Soviet ally instead of a Chinese one? That the domino effect they obsessed over didn't come to fruition?
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>>1839485Malacca strait the vital blood vessel of capitalism is still sucure.
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>>1840226>>1840217This is a good thread for the most part.
So please fuck off with your attention seaking schizo /siberia/ tier ideas, shay, you worthless fascist in denial faggot.
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Went to the same Labour Day rally as last year. The population is still disproportionately women and minorities. Hell some people, especially malay women, came wearing white and black keffiyeh. I personally feel like a bit out of place especially when I came alone. Perhaps if i had more courage and social skills, I could have talked to them about Palestine.
Significantly more people and especially media presence. Newspaper and radio station reporters were there getting interviews. What is weird is that small and obscure podcasters were there too, I am told one of them may be connected to the government…
The same advocacy groups from last year came too. What is interesting is a new one is here for sex workers. The person at the booth described themselves as essentially HR department for the sex workers, to provide protection and testing kits for them. What is odd is that for a group that believe that sex work is work (the person is literally wearing a button that says that verbatim in chinese), it is rather agnostic on the question whether to legalize and regulate it or to diminish and discourage it. I was like, surely if you believe that sex work is work then you have to advocate for its legalization, regulation and unionization as a permanent solution to their plight. We also discuss the nature of work and what is it for a while. Regardless, I personally found testimony of a sex worker and the type of her clients interesting.
Also there was a booth that who was against ISD (the law lets the government catch people without trial or judicial approval) and clearly the remnants of the Old Left. They even had a book cataloguing Barisan Sosialis statements and documents since its inspection. Too bad it was all in chinese and the books were taken up quickly. Also there was a kid that came to the booth claiming that these people were communists and deserved to lim kopi. He literally looked like a soyjak with a Jordan Peterson tier understanding of marxism. He claimed to read Das Kaptial and the Communist Manifesto and based his understanding of it on communism, when neither didn't really discussed what exactly socialism or communism would look like. I mocked his theoretical ignorance and got him to admit that Singapore is a social democracy, not a free market capitalism. But apparently social democracy is capitalism to him. At least he wasn't harassing the booth people anymore.
The speeches were the same as last year. Talking about labour issues and rights. They had a few malay woman talking about the need for welfare programs for the poor and homeless. One of them was homeless for a time. I wish they brought back more performances and speakers from last year to have some continuity. They even had a short skit about migrant workers, I thought it was cringe. Again the final speaker did tie everything up, bringing all of it back to class struggle.
Significantly more members of my succdem Workers Party this year. Even more MPs came too. They got interviews with the reporters and the organizers alike. Was good publicity for everyone involved. Even the disgraced MP came too, was wild to see him after the whole fiasco. The members that did came were much younger than the normal WP member, and one even volunteer for one of these orgs.
All in all, I walk away feeling more optimistic of the future of the Singapore Left. One of the organizers of this event told me he wants to see a socialist party for Singapore. And I do believe all the people who showed today will be the founding members of this socialist party. Even more is that big presence of WP members and MPs here shows that there is potential for Workers Party to be this socialist party. Or failing that, a split to form said socialist party (not unlike PAP/BS split). It can be done, but we all have to congregate and rally around WP and ensure it gets to form a government first.
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>>1840304Don't you dare insult Shay's geological engineering proposals! When world DoTP is established, they will all be undertaken.
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>>1840767>>1840304i wont argue here, but imagine 1 billion indonesians and all of the citizens of ASEAN being capable of simply buying a high speed train ticket and riding all the way to queensland or the northern territory of australia from singapore or thailand within the course of 12 hours or less. i don't know what riding a train is like but to me it sounds like an easy way to overcome australia's overly protective border policies.
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>>1841190I am saying it is better to radicalize the current WP and if that fails (ie the socialists get purged or sidelined), we can use that as an impetus to make a socialist party. There is still many benefits to being in WP, learning how to run an electoral machine, how to write policy, do media and campaigning etc etc. There is a reason why other parties struggle to maintain its presence in the political landscape, let alone win any votes. Look at PSP as a counter example.
The organizers once told me he found WP to be too moderate to really change anything, but the point is that WP at its current state isn't the end goal, but a stepping stone to something more radical. If it has to fail, then it must be made to fail faster.
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