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Brothers planned
NY attack: Mayor
NEW YORK – The brothers
accused of staging the
Boston Marathon bombings
planned to detonate
more explosives in Times
Square as they were being
hunted by police,
New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg said on April
25.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confessed
the plan to Federal
Bureau of Investigation
agents in his hospital bed,
Bloomberg said, calling it a
“horrific reminder that we
remain targets for terrorists.”
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166 on hunger strike
at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON – More
prisoners have joined a
hunger strike to protest
against their indefinite
detention at the US-run
Guantanamo military
prison, with 92 out of 166
detainees refusing food, a
spokesman in a statement
said on April 24.
The hunger strike began
on February 6, lawyers for
the detainees said. – AFP
UK newspapers spurn
press watchdog plan
LONDON – British
newspapers last week
rejected government plans
for a state-backed press
watchdog and published
their own proposal for selfregulation
in the wake of
the phone-hacking scandal
at Rupert Murdoch’s News
of the World.
The three main political
parties struck a deal in
March for a beefed-up
regulator underpinned
by law, which they
said was needed to
rein in the excesses
of Britain’s raucous
tabloid press.
But the newspaper
industry on April 25
unveiled its own plans
for a self-regulatory
system without any state
involvement, saying the
government proposal to
set up a watchdog by a
so-called royal charter
threatened press freedom.
“A number of its
recommendations are
unworkable and it gives
politicians an unacceptable
degree of interference
in the regulation of the
press,” said a statement
coordinated by the
Newspaper Society, the
industry body.
The rival regulatory plan
proposes fines of up to £1
million (US$1.5 million) and
prominent corrections, just
as the government scheme
does.
But it demands more
public consultation to allow
newspapers and magazines
to have their say on the
terms of the royal charter.
Newspapers say the plan
threatens press freedom.
It also opposes any legal
underpinning of the
regulator.
The government said it
would consider the proposal.
But campaign group
Hacked Off said newspapers
were “defying the will of
parliament”.
“This desperate move by
editors and proprietors –
rejecting the royal charter
agreed last month by all
parties in parliament and
due to be approved by the
queen in days – is only the
latest proof that most of
the industry has learned
no lessons from the Leveson
experience,” it said.
The government proposal
was agreed in March in
response to the findings
of the Leveson Inquiry,
a probe into the ethics of
the press set up by Prime
Minister David Cameron in
2011 after the News of the
World scandal.
The plan involves
the creation of a
press watchdog
under a royal charter,
a special document
used to establish
organisations such as
the Bank of England and
the BBC.
The statutory element is
that the charter itself would
be protected by a separate
law stating that all charters
passed after March 1, 2013
could only be modified by a
two-thirds parliamentary
majority.
Newspapers and free
speech advocates say that
any underpinning in law,
no matter how vague, would
restrict free speech. – AFP
MOSCOW – President
Vladimir Putin last week
denied the existence of
any elements of Stalinism
under his rule but warned
there needed to be “order
and discipline” in modern
Russia.
“I do not see any
elements of Stalinism
here,” Putin said on April
25 in his annual questionand-answer
session with
Russians amid growing
criticism from activists
over a crackdown on civil
society.
“Stalinism is linked to
the cult of personality,
mass violations of the law,
repressions and camps.”
But he added: “This
does not mean that we
should not have order and
discipline.”
Putin insisted that
present-day Russia could
not be compared with the
Stalin era, however, saying
that now there are no
political prisoners.
“People are punished for
breaking laws or breaching
the rights of other people,”
he said, citing Pussy Riot
punk band, two of whose
members have been jailed
for two years in remote
prison camps for an anti-
World
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Putin says there’s no
Stalinism in Russia
Russian President Vladimir
Putin during the questionand-answer
session last
week. Pic: AFP
Putin performance in a
church.
Millions of Soviet citizens
were sent to prison camps
or executed under Stalin’s
rule, while millions also died
in horrific famines blamed
on his brutal agricultural
polices.
“There is nothing like this
in Russia and, I hope, never
will be again,” said Putin.
However rights groups in
Russia have accused Putin
of using Stalinist repression
techniques, including the
jailing of opponents and
impeding the work of NGOs
with repressive laws. – AFP
TRADE MARK CAUTION
Dreamwell, Ltd. a company incorporated in the United
States of America, of 2215-B Renaissance Drive, Suite
12, Las Vegas, Nevada 89119, U.S.A., is the Owner of
the following Trade Marks:-
Reg. No. 12495/2012
in respect of “Class 20: Furniture, mirrors, picture
frames; goods (not included in other classes) of
wood, cork, reed, cane, wicker, horn, bone, ivory,
whalebone, shell, amber, mother-of-pearl, meerschaum
and substitutes for all these materials, or of plastics;
mattresses; mattress foundations; box springs and
pillows. Class 24: Textiles and textile goods, not
included in other classes; bed covers; table covers;
sheets; blankets; mattress pads; bedding clothes”.
Simmons
Reg. No. 12496/2012
SMART RESPONSE
Reg. No. 12497/2012
in respect of “Class 20: Furniture, mirrors, picture
frames; goods (not included in other classes) of
wood, cork, reed, cane, wicker, horn, bone, ivory,
whalebone, shell, amber, mother-of-pearl, meerschaum
and substitutes for all these materials, or of plastics;
mattresses; mattress foundations; box springs and
pillows”.
Fraudulent imitation or unauthorised use of the said
Trade Marks will be dealt with according to law.
Win Mu Tin, M.A., H.G.P., D.B.L
for Dreamwell, Ltd.
P. O. Box 60, Yangon
E-mail: makhinkyi.law@mptmail.net.mm
Dated: 29 April 2013