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KUALA LUMPUR - The United Nations and rights groups are urging Malaysia to reconsider its plans to repatriate some 1,200 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday, saying they include asylum seekers and registered refugees whose lives will be put at risk. Myanmar’s military has been waging a brutal counterinsurgency against a patchwork of ethnic-minority rebel armies since the country’s independence in 1948, a struggle that has scattered thousands of refugees across the region. The military took full control of the country after toppling the democratically elected government on Feb. 1, sparking widespread protests and an increasingly violent crackdown. News of Malaysia’s plans to send the Myanmar nationals in its detention depots back home broke just over a week ago. On Feb. 15, via state-run news outlet Bernama, Malaysia’s immigration chief, Khairul Dzaimee Daud, said they were all picked up for immigration offenses and that none held a U.N.-issued refugee card. The office of the U.N. High … [Read more...] about UN, Rights Groups Pan Malaysia’s Plans to Deport Myanmar Nationals

A petition to have Cadbury’s latest commercial taken off air surfaced after viewers took issue with a same-sex kiss featured in the ad, according to an article published Friday by the New York Post . The petition, which was created Feb. 15 on Citizen Go , had over 27,000 signatures at the time this post was published. The whole advertisement features different ways you can eat the Cadbury egg. The part of the commercial that inspired the petition comes at the very end when two men pass a Cadbury egg between their mouths before bursting the egg open. WATCH: “By choosing to feature a same-sex couple, Cadbury’s are clearly hoping to cause controversy and escape criticism by claiming that any objections must be rooted in ‘homophobia,’ but members of the LGBT community have also expressed their dislike of this campaign,” the petition stated. (RELATED: Political Correctness Hits Annual Easter Egg Hunt In Britain) “Cadbury’s is well aware of the religious significance … [Read more...] about Petition To Remove New Cadbury Egg Commercial Surfaces After Company Releases Ad Featuring Same-Sex Kiss

LONDON (AP) — British candy maker Cadbury PLC on Tuesday accepted Kraft’s improved takeover offer worth $19.5 billion, potentially ending a months-long corporate battle to create the world’s largest maker of chocolate and sweets. The U.S. food conglomerate said the board of Cadbury, maker of Creme Eggs and Dentyne gum, had unanimously endorsed the offer worth 840 pence per share, or 11.9 billion pounds in total. Cadbury shareholders will also get a 10 pence dividend previously promised by Cadbury. The revised bid is for 500 pence cash and 0.1874 new Kraft shares for each Cadbury share, still somewhat less than some analysts believed the company is worth but 50 percent higher than Cadbury’s market value before Kraft went public with its approach. Kraft Foods Inc.’s previous offer of 10.5 billion pounds ($17.1 billion) valued Cadbury at about 770 pence, but was dismissed by the British company’s management as “derisory.” Kraft still has to persuade a majority of Cadbury … [Read more...] about Kraft Foods, Cadbury agree $19.5 bln deal

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A man charged in the brutal assault of an 84-year-old San Francisco man that was captured on video last month will remain in custody following a court hearing Monday. The San Francisco District Attorney’s office told KPIX 5 on Monday that their detention motion to hold 19-year-old Antoine Watson without bail was granted by the court. Watson is accused in the deadly attack of Vicha Ratanapakdee in the city’s Anza Vista neighborhood on January 28. He has pled not guilty to charges of murder and elder abuse causing death. Antoine Watson appears in court during a previous hearing. (CBS) Surveillance video showed Ratanapakdee walking in the driveway of a home when the suspect barrels him into the victim violently, knocking him to the ground before the suspect casually walks away in the same direction he came from. Police said they were quickly able to identify Watson as the assault suspect. According to the San Francisco District Attorney’s … [Read more...] about Suspect In Deadly Assault Of 84-Year-Old San Francisco Man Held Without Bail

Amid condemnation from Chinese officials, two U.S. aircraft carrier groups conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea, the Navy said in a statement Tuesday.The Navy said that the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group “conducted a multitude of exercises aimed at increasing interoperability between assets as well as command and control capabilities,” according to Reuters. The activity reportedly marked the first operations by two U.S. carriers in the region in about seven months.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the U.S. move constituted a deliberate “show of force” and undermined stability in the region.ADVERTISEMENT“China will continue to take necessary measures to firmly safeguard national sovereignty and security and work with countries in the region to firmly safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea,” he said, according to the news service.U.S. officials have accused Beijing … [Read more...] about Pentagon sends two carrier groups into South China Sea amid tensions with Beijing