Wong also accused opposition parliamentarians of only being interested in the money.
“That’s how they (opposition MPs) are. This is the first time I’m hearing that they are interested in a BN invitation to a function. This is because money is involved,” he said.
“If they are really interested in Merdeka celebrations, they can contact the Cultural [...]
Archive for June, 2007
May 31st 2007 | BANGKOKFrom The Economist print edition
A legal blow to religious freedom
“EVERY person has the right to profess and practise his religion.” Article 11 of Malaysia’s constitution could hardly be more definitive. Yet Lina Joy, who has fought for nine years for the right to convert from Islam to Christianity, was told by [...]
Today Richard Teo, ‘a guest blogger’ at Uncle Kit’s blog wrote Let us end 50 years of BN rule which reverberate a lot of points which I brought up in both engaging the rakyat : will opposition be any different? and engaging the rakyat : Pak Lah is a good man.
Let us give Malaysia a [...]
He is Mr Clean.
He wants to make a difference, give him time.
Pak Lah needs more time to root out the old cronies of TDM.
He is not strong enough YET.
Oh, please!!! But wait, I can’t say that. I need to give a fair hearing to the other camp, my foot!. Sorry, I get a bit worked [...]
engaging the rakyat : will opposition be any different?
Published June 23rd, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 CommentUMNO, MCA, MIC, DAP, PKR, PSM, PAS, etc. They are all the same. Whoever comes to power will act just like BN today.
the devil you know vs the devil you don’t
We should have a reality tv program to solve this issue once and for all eternity. But wait, there is already a reality tv program [...]
This is a soon to be discontinued series based on my conversations and/or debate with friends, relatives, political activist, etc. A disclaimer to this series is that it is all based on my perspective of the dialogue and I have all the advantage of post-processing the dialogue; what I am saying is, it is not [...]
From the BBC World Service The Interview website:
Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, talks to Owen Bennett-Jones on The Interview
Anwar Ibrahim was a successful politician headed for the very top. The favourite of the forceful Malaysian leader Mahatir Mohammed, he could do no wrong and he even deputised as Prime Minister on several [...]
Blogging about howsy blogging about shadowfox and jeffooi on the beginning of Internet censorship in Malaysia. Lost? Maybe it got censored by Barisan Nanny.
I wonder if NAB or whoever the rival is going to do on this issue? Technically, it has not touch bloggers yet. But, it is a question of when not if.
I received an email from chiwi which I reproduced verbatim below.
I heard over the radio yesterday that Malaysia have its first death from bird flu. Are we waiting for disaster in making with all the “bird motels/swiftlet hotels”? Sitiawan and Segamat have this birds motels right in the middle of the town! What is the [...]
Malaysia : The beginning of Internet filtering/blocking
Published June 2nd, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 CommentReferring to news article in The (MCA Pimp) Star; ‘Securities Commission to filter out scams on Net, 1 June 2007′ (pdf). This is an extremely disturbing development for Internet users in Malaysia. Please allow me to refer to Lulu’s recipe on how boiling a frog.
It is so easy to block/filter more than investment scams sites [...]
