Yasmin Ahmad laid to rest

By NURBAITI HAMDAN and ZALINAH NOORDIN

PETALING JAYA: Award-winning director Yasmin Ahmad, 51, was laid to rest at the SS22 Muslim Cemetery yesterday.

My Comment: Innumerable tributes are pouring in for this great woman. Her contributions to the development of the Malaysian cinema saw no racial boundaries. Her extraordinary talent as a film and advertising director (has won several notable awards) was admired and praised by all the races in

Malaysia

. This is why her demise is such an heartbreaking news for the Malaysians.

On 7, 2Monday July 2009 (the Starline)

Gates reassures Israel on U.S.-Iran strategy

By Jim Wolf

My Comment: Looking at the title, one can be excused for wondering whether Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates JR. was such an important person that his assurance was very important to Israel, what with the news of his skirmish with Sgt James Crowley of Cambridge Police Department just having been news casted recently! Ha! Ha! Read on!

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates moved to reassure

Israel

on Monday that Washington's bid to talk

Iran

into giving up sensitive nuclear work was worth pursuing, despite the reticence so far from Tehran.

My Comment: Oops! Wrong Gates…eh? Luckily no recent eye-catching news about Bill Gates!