ON 6 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on September 6, 2010

5 SEPTEMBER 2010

Singapore's population could shrink by half in 20 years

Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said that Singapore's population could shrink by half in 20 years if we do not 'replace ourselves'.
news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Sin...20100905-235616.html

ON 5 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on September 5, 2010

1158: Nijo is enthroned as 78th emperor of Japan, up to August 3, 1165
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Nijo

1165: Death of Morihito (Nijo), 78th Japanese emperor (1158-1165), born on July 31, 1143

1398: Taejo of Choson (Joseon) , abdicates as king of Korea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taejo_of_Joseon

1842: During the First Afghan War, the British forces, lead by Nott reach Ghuznee and drive the Afghans out before pillaging the town in revenge for the massacre of the sepoy garrison and the ill-treatment of the British officers
britishbattles.com/first-afghan-war/kabul-1842.htm

1863 : Following an initial Japanese attack on western ships, British, French and Dutch fleets attack Japan in Shimonoseki Straits

1888: Birth of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher, second President of India from May 13, 1962 to May 13, 1967, who died in 1975
www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/sarvepalli-radhakrishnan.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan

1905: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the Russo-Japanese War with a Japanese victory
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?a...=Article&id=5321
encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761552002

1905: Birth of Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician who died on March 31, 2005
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justiniano_Montano

1942: In World War II, Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
www.defence.gov.au/army/ahu/history/battles/Milne_Bay.htm

1943: Birth of Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary, who died on November 8, 2007
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_Saguisag

1943: One of General MacArthur’s Parachute Regiment lands and size the port of Nazdab in New Guinea
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?a...=Article&id=6574

1945: British troops land in Indochina to disarm the Japanese

1945: Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/rose/rose.htm

1950: During the Korean War, Pohang port is captured by North Korean troops

1954: China starts bombing Qemoy island. USA refuses to intervene
www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2007/10/28/128461/Quemoy-crisis.htm

1956: Birth of Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Indian film director
www.movietalkies.com/artists/complete-profie.asp?ArtistId=49480

1969: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai Massacre.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?a...=Article&id=1337

1970: Birth of Kim Hye-soo, Korean actress
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hye-su
www.hancinema.net/korean_Kim_Hye-soo.php#

1970: In the Vietnam War, Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien province, the last massive American operation
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?a...=Article&id=1338

1978: Birth of Yu Nan, Chinese actress
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Nan
www.imdb.com/name/nm0950544/
www.dailymotion.com/video/xcefna_yu-nan-dedicace_creation

1982: Birth of Cyndi Wang (Wang Xin-ling), Taiwanese actress and singer
women.stareastasia.com/cyndi-wang/
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/27/content_9721107.htm
female.thedailymodel.com/cyndi-wang/

1986: The 16-hour siege on a Pan Am jet in Pakistan has come to a bloody end, with at least 17 people dead.
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/storie..._4576000/4576765.stm

1990: Eastern University massacre, massacre of 158 Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan army at the Eastern University in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_University_massacre

1995: In Afghanistan, Taliban capture Herat city

1995: Death of Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer and filmmaker
www.salilda.com/

1997: In Calcutta, death of Mother Teresa, Peace Nobel Prize, born on August 26, 1910
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/storie..._2499000/2499693.stm
www.ewtn.com/motherteresa/

2000: Death of General Abdul Haris Nasution, hero of Indonesia independence, born in December 1918
www.answers.com/topic/gen-abdul-haris-nasution
encarta.msn.com/media_461531068/abdul_haris_nasution.html

2002: In Kandahar, Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai is unhurt in an assassination attempt. Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai is wounded in the attack.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec02/afghan_9-5.html

2007: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signs amnesty proclamation 1377 for members of the Communist party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army for crimes commited on political beliefs.

[b]2009: The Communist party chief of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region (China[), is sacked after days of protests that left five people dead. No official reason was given for Saturday's dismissal of Li Zhi[/b]
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...099510166606363.html
www.france24.com/en/20090905-top-officia...hina-communist-party


Holidays and observances

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

India : The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.

ON 4 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY



ON 4 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on September 4, 2010

626: Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty of China up to 649
www.warriortours.com/intro/history/tang/taizong.htm
(photo)

1563: Birth of Chinese Ming dynasty emperor Wanli (1572-1620), who died on August 18, 1620
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanli_Emperor

1825: Birth of Dadabhai Naoroji, one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, who died on June 30, 1917
www.ceeby.com/people/dadabhainaoroji.cfm

1939: Japan declares its neutrality in European World War II

1941: Birth of Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/States/A...pradesh/governor.htm

1948: Birth of Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Samuel-Hui

1951: Opening of the San Francisco conference for a peace treaty with Japan (up to September 8)

1952: Birth of Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Kapoor
www.chakpak.com/celebrity/rishi-kapoor/10674

1958: The PRC declares the extension of its territorial waters to twelve nautical miles and maintains that would apply not only to mainland China and its coastal islands but also to Taiwan and all other islands claimed by China

1959: Laos, involved in communist insurrection asks the help of the United Nations to restore order

1965: Birth of Bowie Lam, Hong Kong actor and singer
men.stareastasia.com/bowie-lam/

1967: In Operation Swift, U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?a...=Article&id=1336
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Swift

1971: Birth of Anita Yuen (Yuen Wing Yee), Hong Kong actress
women.stareastasia.com/anita-yuen/

1976: Birth of Katreeya English, Thai singer, actress, model
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katreeya_English
www.katreeyaenglish.com/


1978: At least two million people have been made homeless as the worst floods in living memory hit northern India
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/storie..._2496000/2496097.stm

1979: Death of Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer, birth of January 28, 1904
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuplin

1980: Birth with Hitomi Shimatani, Japanese singer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitomi_Shimatani
jpop-no-pv.skyrock.com/photo.html?id_article=470898474

1983: Birth of Yuichi Nakamaru, Japanese idol
wiki.d-addicts.com/Nakamaru_Yuichi

1995: In Okinawa, Japan, the rape of a young teenager by three G.I. launches a new campaign against the presence of US troops in the island
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1995: The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/
www.iisd.ca/women.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_World_Conference_on_Women

2000: Visit of Russian president Putin to Japan. He rejects the Japanese claim on the Kurils Islands

2007: Death of Ryuzo Sejima, Japanese officer then chairman of the board of directors of Asia University
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2530967.ece

2008: Thailand's government approves, in principle, plans for a national referendum to end a three-month political deadlock
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...089464647549139.html

2009: "Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage," the North Korea's KCNA news agency said. Uranium enrichment would give Pyongyang a second way to make a nuclear bomb - but it also said it was continuing to reprocess and weaponise plutonium
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...099402655311868.html
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8237204.stm

2009: In China, five people have are killed and 14 wounded during protests over security, an Urumqi official said. Police used tear gas and public appeals Friday to break up crowds marching on government and Communist Party offices in Urumqi
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32689688/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8238768.stm

2009: At least 90 people are killed in northern Afghanistan after a Nato aerial raid on two hijacked petrol lorries
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/09/200994465561117.html
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8238714.stm

ON 2 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on September 2, 2010

1274: Death of Prince Munetaka, the 6th shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan who reigned from 1252 to 1266, born on December 15, 1242.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Munetaka

1820: Death of Jiaqing, the sixth emperor of the China Qing dynasty (Emperor from 1796 to 1820), born on November 13, 1760
www.china-blues.com/Jiaqing.htm

1856: During the Taiping Rebellion, Tianjing's struggle Incident in Nanjing, China
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjing's_struggle_Incident

1867: Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she's called by the posthumous name Empress Shoken
everything2.com/e2node/Empress%2520Shoken

1879: Birth of An Jung-Geun, Korean separatist who assassinated Ito Hirobumi, the former Japanese Resident-General of Korea. He was executed on March 26, 1910
www.spiritus-temporis.com/an-jung-geun/

1884: Birth of Frank Laubach, Christian Evangelical missionary in the Philippines, who died on June 11, 1970
www.laubach-on.ca/laubachchronology.htm

1926: Birth of Ibrahim Nasir, president of the Maldives (1968-1978)
www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ib...e-1960s-1035062.html

1945: The final official surrender of Japan is signed aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay (see picture below)
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/storie..._3582000/3582545.stm
www.taiwandocuments.org/surrender01.htm
ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/IMTFE/IMTFE-A2.html


1945: Ho Chi Minh Vietnam declares independence from France, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?a...=Article&id=5313
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietdec.htm

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1946: Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President.

1950: Birth of Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen_Wah
www.lovehkfilm.com/people/yuen_wah.htm


1953 : Birth of Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and a war hero , assassinated on September 9, 2001
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5189957...-4810115053176609380

1957: President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem_pres...l_visit_to_Australia

1960: The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.

1962: Birth of Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachya_Pinkaew


1964: In a paper published in the Pravda, Soviet Union accuses China of having territorial claims against it

1965: Birth of Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
www.sen-gupta.net/about/


1969: Death of Ho Chi Minh, founder and president of North Vietnam
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?a...=Article&id=1331
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0519.html

1970: Indian parliament abolishes princes’ privileges

1979: Birth of Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ng
gallery.asianfanatics.net/index.php?act=thumbs&aid=48

1982: Birth of Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction...p;friendid=193883792
family.webshots.com/album/347362627yxfJFb

1984: Birth of Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danson_Tang
gallery.asianfanatics.net/index.php?act=thumbs&aid=2289

1991: The Tibetan Government-in-exile declared the 15 June 1988 Strasbourg Proposal (Five-points peace plan) invalid because of the closed and negative attitude of the present Chinese leadership towards the ideas expressed in the proposal

1996: A permanent peace agreement is signed between the government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front, ending 26 years of insurgency that had killed more than 120,000 people
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_National_Liberation_Front

1998: In Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, vice-premier and minister of Finances, in conflict with the economics policy of Prime Minister Mahathir is dismissed
edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south....timeline/index.html

2000 : Beijing rejects Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian offer of direct commercial relations, so long he does not recognize that Taiwan belongs to China

2001: Zhu Rongji starts the first visit of a Chinese premier to Ireland

2003: In Indonesia, Abu Bakar Bashir, presumed leader of Jemaah Islamiya, is condemned to four years in prison for sedition
www.nndb.com/people/483/000045348/

2004: In Malaysia, the Supreme Court clears former vice-premier Anwar Ibrahim of the crime of sodomy, for which he is in jail since 1998, and orders his release

2007 : In Bangladesh, former premier Sheikh Hasina is charged on corruption case

2008 : In Thailand, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej imposed a state of emergency in Bangkok after groups of demonstrators clashed on the street
www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/02/asia/02thailand.php

2009: Death of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India,born July 8,. 1949
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y._S._Rajasekhara_Reddy

1 SEPTEMBER
Cambodia rights body decries worsening repression as staffer jailed

Phnom Penh - A leading human rights group in Cambodia said Wednesday that activists are operating in an increasingly hostile environment there, characterized by physical violence, illegal arrests and trumped-up criminal charges.
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapaci...on-as-staffer-jailed