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Yesterday, in the news, Burmese blogger, 28-year-old Nay Phone Latt was sentenced to imprisonment for 20 years and six months for the charges including slandering a high state official. Also arrested and sentenced were Latt's colleague, Thin July Kyaw and Saw Wai, another dissident, for two years each. And the person they mocked? Military leader Than Shwe. The cartoon and poem Latt posted in his blog, nayphonelatt.net in Barmese meant, "Senior Gen. Than Shwe is foolish with power". Though Mr Latt was arrested in January, the sentence was announced only yesterday. It broke down thus: fifteen years for offenses in Electronics Act, two years for creating public alarm, and three and a half years for offenses under the Video Act. Blogging is a way to broadcast opinions, and people should be completely free to deliver their opinions wherever they want. This incident should be regarded as an outright assault on human rights by a senior leader, who is expected to protect i...

Here is another news on the new American President. Mr. Barack Obama is praised by a linguist, J J Payack, president of the Texas-based Global Language Monitor on his acceptance speech in Chicago. According to him the Obama speech ('Yes, We Can' shown in video below) compares favorably with a number of historic orations. [CNN reported this story a while ago.] Payack said: His goal was to be understood by the widest possible audience during his victory speech, and he seems to have done a great job doing it. He's at his best communicating directly and forthrightly with this audience and using different types of rhetorical devices Well, that's really a laud for Mr Obama. What less is expected of one of the greatest students of the Harvard Law School anyway. Payack also reported the grade points the famous speech given by history's most prominent politicians. The scores ran thus: John F Kennedy: 10.8 for his Inagural speech. Ronald Reagan: 9.8 for his 'Te...

A serious development yesterday might surprise all. The campaign computers used by the candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain are reported as having been hacked into by an unnamed foreign entity in the mid-summer. [News sources at the bottom] CNN reported that the hack may have been initiated by a foreign government or organization with aim to investiagate the policy positions "in order to gain leverage in future dealings with whomever is elected." Another source affiliated to CNN also reported that the FBI approached both McCain and Obama campaigns to investigate the problem, though the campaigns hired private companies to solve the issue. Though there is no correspondence as to who the foreign entity is, the Times Online reported: in what appears to have been an intelligence-gathering operation by Russia or China, it has emerged. The hack was reported and thought of as a computer virus that seemed to access important personal information in a sophisticated manner f...