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| Bolivia asks Sean Penn to help it get its coast back Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:49 PM PDT LA PAZ: Bolivia asked visiting Oscar-winner Sean Penn Tuesday to help lobby for La Paz to regain a bit of Pacific coast, and escape the ranks of landlocked states. Evo Morales, the socialist president of the arid nation high in the Andes, asked the US actor to help its campaign to press Chile to overhaul treaties that ended a 19th-century war that cost Bolivia its coast and gave the land to Chile. Being landlocked makes trade and transport difficult for Bolivia, already South America's poorest nation. Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said Penn, known for his friendship with Morales ally President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, was a "militant for noble causes." The diplomat urged Penn to be an "interlocutor with people involved in international politics to... help bring our demand, our proposal for a return to the sea to different venues." It was Penn's second visit to Bolivia this year. The United States and Bolivia have strained ties, and since 2008 have not had ambassadors in their respective capitals after La Paz accused Washington of meddling in its domestic politics. - AFP |
| Zee Avi still very much a Malaysian Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:22 PM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: A successful career in the United States and international fame has not changed Malaysian singer and songwriter Zee Avi. The 25-year-old from Miri insists that she still keeps her culture, customs and identity as a Malaysian close to her heart. Zee said claims that she had changed and forgotten her roots were baseless and untrue. "It is not easy being part of this industry and under the spotlight. Even if people perceive me as being that way, it does not reflect who I truly am," she told mStar Online at the home of drama producer Raja Alawiah Idris recently. At the age of 20, Zee had posted a video of herself singing on YouTube and the overwhelming response to the video encouraged her to continue posting songs on the website. She shot to fame when her first self-titled debut album Zee Avi hit No. 2 on the US Billboard Top Heatseekers Chart in 2010, and sold 6,000 copies in the United States in its first two weeks of release. Her second album Ghost Bird peaked at No. 1 on the same chart last year. Zee is now working on her next album, which is scheduled to hit the shelves next year. "I am very happy for other Malaysians, like Yuna, who have also made a name for themselves in the US," she said. Singer Yuna Zarai, also 25, from Kedah, released her debut EP Decorate, in the US in March last year. "When I found out that Yuna was gaining fame in the US, I was very proud. The world is beginning to see the ability and talents of Malaysian singers," she said. |
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