Mong Palatino · June, 2008

Latest posts by Mong Palatino from June, 2008

Malaysia: Oil price hikes

  8 June 2008

Sikmanding reports that all over Malaysia the hot topic of discussion is still the fuel price increase and its dreaded effects.

Myanmar: Junta condemns “invented stories”

  6 June 2008

Myanmar's state-controlled newspaper features a report castigating “self-seekers and unscrupulous elements” who sell video tapes featuring “invented stories” to foreign news agencies about the cyclone disaster.

Malaysia cuts fuel subsidies

  5 June 2008

Friends of According to Izzat is supportive of the Malaysian government decision to cut fuel subsidies but the blogger could not explain why gasoline price should increase by 40 percent overnight.

Southeast Asia: Series of unfortunate disasters

  3 June 2008

In the past month, natural disasters hit the Southeast Asian region claiming hundreds of thousands of lives and destroying billions of properties. Bloggers discuss the destructive cyclone in Myanmar, the China earthquake which was felt in Hanoi and Bangkok, two earthquakes in the Sumatra island and the strong typhoon in north Philippines.