The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday April 4th, 2022 – International Day for Landmine Awareness and Assistance
The United Nations advocates for the universalization of existing legal frameworks and encourages Member States to expand those regimes and develop new international instruments to protect civilians from the scourges of landmines and explosive remnants of war. It undertakes this work in collaboration with interested states, civil society, mine action and international organizations.
In #Malaysia, its authority to the Sultan – The last check and balance, or a palace coup? by Murray Hunter
Nothing is straight forward in Malaysia. Last Saturday, the Barisan Nasional (BN), led by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) won a resounding state election victory in Johor, only to find that their chosen Mentri Besar (chief minister) candidate Hasni Mohammad was overlooked by the Johor palace for Onn Hafiz Ghazi.
This is not the first time political party nominees for the position of chief minister have been knocked back by respective state palaces. Back in Terengganu 2008, there was a political impasse when the sultan insisted Ahmad Said be chief minister over UMNO’s choice, Idris Jusoh. In Perlis 2009, the Raja refused to swear in Shahidan Kassim as chief minister and swore in Md Isa Sabu instead. In Selangor 2004, in what was called the Kajang move, the sultan refused to appoint then opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s wife Wan Azizah as chief minister, picking Azmin Ali, even though he didn’t have apparent support from the majority of assembly members. In Perlis 2018, the Raja swore in Azlan Man as chief minister, even though the ceremony was boycotted by assembly members who supported their candidate Ismail Kassim, brother of Shahidan Kassim.
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Teachings of a painter #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“We do not paint to regain ourselves,
And we capture it on paper and the interpretation of the jurists,
But let’s read the fortune-telling of the days in the intersecting and parallel lines that do not meet.
How, then, do the two lines of life and death meet in one hand?”
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Sceptic feathers #032 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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