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Barnama
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Barnama
Encore Melaka Among Proposed WTD 2025 Celebration Venues
MELAKA, July 13 (Bernama) -- Encore Melaka, located in Impression City, Kota Syahbandar, has been proposed as one of the venues for the 2025 World Tourism Day (WTD) celebration this September. State Tourism, Heritage, Arts and Culture Committee chairman, Datuk Abdul Razak Abdul Rahman, said that the venue was chosen for its strategic location along the Straits of Melaka, positioning Encore Melaka as a unique tourism product, with strong potential to attract both domestic and international visitors. He said Encore Melaka is not only a theatre equipped with a 360-degree rotating stage, but also serves as a centre for arts and cultural performances. 'At the moment, we have several proposed venues, including sites in the Banda Hilir area, and Encore Melaka, which we have submitted to the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture for consideration. 'Encore Melaka was proposed due to its coastal location, which allows us to showcase the Straits of Melaka as part of the celebration. Additionally, it is a distinctive tourism product, with the potential to attract international visitors,' he told reporters here today. He said this after opening the People's Representative for the People (WRUR) programme in the Duyong state constituency, which was also attended by the Duyong assemblyman and deputy chairman of the state Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Communications Committee, Datuk Mohd Noor Helmy Abdul Halem. Abdul Razak added that, in preparation for WTD 2025, a variety of engaging programmes are being planned to enliven the celebration, in line with Melaka's selection as the launch venue for Visit Malaysia Year 2026. 'Several programmes are scheduled for September, including religious events in conjunction with the Maulidur Rasul celebration, under the Islamic Tourism cluster. He said that further details on the upcoming programmes will be announced to the public soon.
USA Today
09-05-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
Via email, Trump fires head of world's largest library: The Library of Congress
Via email, Trump fires head of world's largest library: The Library of Congress Show Caption Hide Caption Several senior National Security Council officials fired The firings of the NSC officials comes after President Trump met with far-right activist Laura Loomer. President Donald Trump fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, via email, a move that immediately drew sharp condemnation from her supporters. "President Trump's ignorant decision will impact America's libraries, our copyrighted economic interests, and service to the American people by threatening support for Congress," Rep. Joe Morelle, a New York Democrat, posted to social media shortly after Hayden's firing became public late May 8. "His decision is a complete disgrace." Added Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat: "Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden — the Librarian of Congress — via email. This is disgraceful. The Library of Congress represents some of the best America has to offer. Equal access to learning for all." Hayden was nominated to her position by then-President Barack Obama in 2016, and confirmed by the Senate a year later. She was the first woman and first Black American to lead the nation's official library, which as the world's largest library records and preserves millions of books, films, photos and manuscripts. It's also home to the U.S. Copyright Office. Hayden appeared before a Congressional committee earlier in the week, facing questions from a library modernization project whose cost has ballooned while completion deadlines have been repeatedly delayed. Hayden is a professional librarian who first met Obama when she worked at the Chicago Public Library. She had been leading the "Of the People" initiative to bring more works from Black, indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander and other communities of color into the library's collections. Trump has repeatedly targeted programs and people who he considers improperly advancing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The White House did not immediately offer a statement or comment on Hayden's firing. Critics of Trump's decision lambasted both the firing itself and the way it was carried out: via an email sent to Hayden at 6:56 p.m. Eastern time. 'While President Trump wants to ban books and tell Americans what to read – or not to read at all, Dr. Hayden has devoted her career to making reading and the pursuit of knowledge available to everyone," New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Washington Post
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
What we know about Pope Leo XIV's political and social views
Pope Leo XIV spent two decades working in Peru's poorest enclave and appears to be in the mold of Pope Francis — who carried a legacy as 'the People's Pope' for his outreach to those on society's margins. The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church's hot-button issues remain unclear, he has signaled continuity with his predecessor, who challenged norms, embraced migrants and the poor and sought to build an inclusive church.
Fox News
11-03-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
The Trump presidency could turn out to be a wasted opportunity
Where are We the People in all of this? That is what I have found myself wondering in recent days. In my youth, the focus was mostly local. Washington, D.C. seemed so far off. The news on TV was local. Nowadays, it seems like the inverse of all that. Washington, D.C. seems to be in the center of our orbit. When was the last time any of us watched the local news? The danger in this shift from local issues to national issues is that it has led too many of us — We the People — to become dependent on Washington, D.C. for the changes in our lives. It is true that what is going on in D.C. right now under the Trump administration is bringing massive changes to our lives. However, it is also true that most of the pressing problems facing us are local in our communities. My fear is that a heavy focus on D.C. will end up with far too many people doing nothing on the local level. If that were to happen, then the Trump presidency will become a wasted opportunity. Trump is only one man and he only has four years to turn around a deep state so entrenched in corruption — ideological to monetary. But We the People number the millions and what we want for the federal level should also be what we want for the local level. Perhaps my perspective is different than most. I live and work on the South Side of Chicago and I have seen what happens to a people that has come to rely far too heavily on the government, especially on the federal level. I've see how far too many people surrendered their will and believed their government would come and save them. Instead, things got worse. One can only imagine where the people in my neighborhood would be today if they had believed and invested in themselves and took charge of their local communities? Would we have the same lack of small businesses, homeownership, and lack of quality schools that we have now? I can say with absolute certainty: no. Don't make the mistake that we did. I have only begun to reverse this decline and restore the focus to the local level by building a massive community center and it took us 60 years to get to this point. I knew the problem facing us was local and the solution had to be local. After all, the problem lives locally, not nationally. It would seem to be common sense but when you look around America, you see how many people have forsaken their communities. Parents have surrendered their children to activist teachers. Parents never attended school board meetings and woke up one day to learn that these elected officials cared more about ideology than teachers. Citizens voted in local politicians with national aspirations instead of local ones. Newspapers shrunk and the local news became national. And on. We need that local flavor back. I believe this is the missing piece in this new American mandate that the election of Trump has made possible. We must do our part on the local level. We must move outside of our home and engage with the people in our community. We must leave our echo chambers and entangle with the diversity of thought outside our doors. Most of all, we must look to ourselves as individuals. What is our individual talent? How can we make a local impact on the individual level? I knew this woman who went to the local library every Friday and read with local children. For one year, she read with one kid. She shared her life story. He shared his. She had never met a kid from the projects. He had never met anyone who survived the Holocaust. That kid went off to college. She still continued to go to the library every Friday and has done so for over 30 years. What started off small has grown into an effort that impacted so many in the local community. And all it took was one individual. What are you going to do for your community today?
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Greenland Prime Minister Expertly Shuts Down Trump's Wild Threat
Greenland's Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede hit back at Donald Trump's outlandish threat to acquire the Danish territory 'one way or the other.' In his address to Congress Tuesday night, Trump gave conflicting messages to the citizens of Greenland. While he claimed to 'strongly support' Greenlanders' 'right to determine [their] own future,' and promised to keep them safe and make them rich, the president also restated that the United States would succeed in acquiring the territory. 'We need it really for international world security. And I think we're going to get it. One way or the other, we're going to get it,' Trump said. The president said that his administration was 'working with everybody involved to try to get it.' Despite what Trump claimed Tuesday, it seems that neither the leaders of Greenland nor Denmark are actually playing ball with his wild imperialist threat. Egede shut down Trump's comments in a post on Facebook Wednesday, written in Greenlandic and Danish. 'Kalaallit Nunaat is ours,' Egede wrote, using the Greenlandic term meaning 'Land of the People,' or the 'Land of the Greenlanders.' 'We don't want to be Americans, nor Danes; we are Kalaallit. The Americans and their leader must understand that. We are not for sale and cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland,' Egede wrote in the post. Meanwhile, Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that Trump's reference to Greenlanders' right to self determination was the most important part of the speech—especially with the parliamentary elections approaching next week. He stressed that it was important for the election to proceed 'without any kind of international intervention.' But Trump's outrageous threats to acquire Greenland have become a hot-button issue on the island, and while his attempts at outreach have ranged from frivolous to ineffectual, his rhetoric about making the territory the 'fifty-second state' has already electrified the independence movement there. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen insisted that Greenland was not for sale in a television interview after Trump's address. Last month, Trump made a startling phone call to Frederiksen and was reportedly 'aggressive and confrontational,' threatening tariffs against the country unless it does exactly what he wants—flying in the face of his false promises about self-determination. Despite the fact that leadership hardly seems interested in handing over control of the mineral-rich territory to the U.S, that hasn't stopped Republicans from letting their imaginations run away with them. Last month, Republican Representative Buddy Carter of Georgia filed a bill to rename Greenland 'Red, White, and Blueland.'
