Malaysia Stamps 2005

There were seventeen stamps issued by Pos Malaysia in 2005. The list were as follows;

1. Rare Flowers (11 January)

2. The 5th Ministers' Forum on Infrastructure (24 January)

3. Migratory Birds of Malaysia (3 February)

4. M'sian made vehicles - Gen2 (7 March)

5. Traditional Dance (9 April) - n/a

6. Songket - the regal heritage (29 April)

7. Birds of M'sia (14 May) - n/a

8. University Malaya 100 Years Celebration (9 June)

9. M'sia-China 600 Years relationship anniversary (21 July)

10. Protected Mammals (27 July)

11. Traditional water transport (9 August)

12. 100 Years of MCKK (30 August)

13. Rare Reptiles of M'sia (28 Sept)

14. Traditional Kites (10 Oct)

15. Malaysia Batik (2 December)

16. ASEAN 11th Summit (12 Dec)

17. M'sia Five Islands & Reefs (22 Dec) - n/a

Rare Flowers

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Zimbabwe Stamps - Minerals

Zimbabwe is quite well known among us but probably for the wrong reasons. When Zimbabwe is mentioned we remember its famous figure Pres. Mugabe. He is over 84 yrs old and still clinging to power. Another about Zimbabwe is that the country uses a very big currency denomination - up to the level of trillion dollars. That is really a huge amount.

One Hundred Trillion Dollars ZWD

(1000 ZWD equivalent to USD3)

On the economic front Zimbabwe is big in mining industry. It produced all kind of mining resources including gold, emerald, diamond and etc. The importance of minerals to Zimbabwe was recognized by the issuance of special stamps with mineral theme. Four types of mineral were chosen to appear on its stamp - diamond, emerald, agate and aquamarine.

Diamond

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Emerald (Zamrud)

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Agate (batu akik)

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Aquamarine (batu akuamarin)

A little bit more about aquamarine can be read here (in Malaysian language).

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Afghanistan - The 2002 Stamps

Afghanistan was at one time a ruined country. Tribes clashes and power struggles are the order of the day. on the international front it was bugged with the intervention by foreign power. Russia and the USA always posed an unstability to the power equation to Afghanistan. It was made worst by the neighbouring countries.

Afghanistan National Hero - Ahmad Shah Masoud (issued on 8 May 2002)

By 2002 the situation has changed somewhat. The country was moving into international assimilation. This could be seen by the example of its postal agency sharing the information on its stamps to the world's public. Afghanistan has issued four special stamps in 2002. The first stamp issued in 2002 was under the theme of famous people depicting the image of an Afghan National Hero - Ahmad Shah Masoud.

History - religion & belief (issued date - 18 July 2002)

Afghan Post noted in this stamp that history is crying for the destruction of Bamiyan Buddha statue.

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National Understanding in Afghanistan (issued on 18 July 2002)

The stamp primary theme is History and it was issued under the subject of politics and goverment.

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Human Rights Declaration (issued on 10 Dec 2002)

According to Afghan Post this stamp was issued to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights.

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Egypt - Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Zewail on Egypt stamp (1998)

It is really rare a scientist from Islamic countries has been awarded with the Nobel Prize. An Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail has won the Prize in 1999 (probably he was nominated in 1998). Ahmed was declared the winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999. He was awarded the Nobel "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy". Zewail is a Professor of Physics & Chemistry at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

• A long list of scientist whom photos were appeared on stamps can be read here. Among the famous and prominent names were Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Werner von Siemens.

Gabon Republic - 20th century discoveries

Gabon Republic has issuing a stamp series with a special theme - the 20th Century Discoveries. Three major discoveries were highlighted - the penicillin discovery (1921); the first invented television (also in 1921) and the first mechanical television (1951).

Republic of Gabon stamps

Lets look more closely about the discovery of penicillin which was noted on the stamp as in the year 1921. Actually the penicillin was invented in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming. It was recognized as one of top ten inventions. The other discoveries which were considered as the top ten are telephone, computer, television, the automobile, cotton gin, camera, steam engine, sewing machine and light bulb.

As for the television invention it was recogized John Baird as the inventor in 1926. But of late it was recognized as well that the first telelevision image should be credited to Philo T Transworth. That was in the year of 1927. Read here and here and here for the report.

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Tanzania Stamps - Millennium

Tanzania stamps - Celeberating the Millennium

The new millennium was ushered by the world citizen in late 1999 or early 2000. The occasion was remembered by many countries through the issuing of commemorative stamps. Tanzania is one of them and it celebrating the new millennium with much concern on clean water, health care and good food.

Stamp source - click here

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Guinea Stamp - Baardeen

A stamp of Guinea (source - click)

Guinea is a relatively small country in West Africa. News coverage on Guinea is very seldom appear in the main stream media. The most recent coverage was about the death of its President (Pres. Conte). That was late last year (somewhere near Christmas celebration 2008). The news was more about the turmoil on who are going to be the new President. That is typical for a poor country especially in Africa.

The Guinea's stamps shown below is depicting image of John Baardeen. Actually, Baardeen has no connection with Guinea what so ever. The stamp is just to honour Baardeen as he is the inventor of transistor. Baardeen died in 1991. More about Baardeen's life and achievement can be read here.

In larger image (source - click)

The stamp was issued in 2002 (probably on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his Nobel Prize).

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