Jan 31, 08 1:15pm
Opposition party PKR today urged Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi toensurethat the coming general election is held after April 15 so that the party’s de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim can contest.“Abdullah should ensure that he does not fix the timing of the next election to once again deprive Anwar of his right [...]
By Ahmad Mustapha Hassan
Vincent Tan, Oh! Sorry! Tan Sri Vincent Tan, the man who played me out in the Sports Toto deal, after having deviously become a corporate figure ,was bent in getting into the good books of the then Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. He would be unhappy if anyone informed Dr. Mahathir of [...]
By Din Merican
Dear Friends,
I will be on a road trip again, this time back to my hometown, Alor Star, Kedah where Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be holding a series of ceramahs. It will be another exciting trip to witness for myself and enjoy the sense of elation whenever Dato Seri Anwar meets ordinary people. [...]
source: www.malaysiakini.com
AFP | Jan 30, 08 4:23pm
Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad today said he never intended his successor Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to serve more than one term and suggested he should stand down.
Abdullah, who has had a very public falling out with the veteran leader, will contest for his second term in [...]
By Din Merican
In his recent testimony before the Haidar Commission, gaming magnate, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, commented on his links to the former Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. He said that he and the Tun met in the early 1980s when he brought the McDonald franchise to Malaysia. Initially, this friendship was strictly [...]
KENYATAAN MEDIA
28 Januari 2008
Cadangan Kementerian Pelajaran untuk menggantikan karya-karya para Sasterawan Negara dan penulis tersohor kita dengan penulis-penulis semasa yang dianggap popular di dalam mata pelajaran bahasa dan sastera di sekolah amat mengejutkan dan harus dibantah oleh semua yang menghargai nilai sastera dan warisan khazanah budaya negara.
Rancangan tersebut, yang dicadangkan untuk dilaksanakan pada 2010, dikatakan [...]
MEDIA STATEMENT
28 JANUARY 2008
The Haidar Commission in ruling not to admit evidence on fixing of court decisions has severely affected public confidence that the present administration is serious in restoring the rule of law in Malaysia.
It is disappointing to note that the Haidar Commission has ruled that I need not be called to provide evidence [...]
MEDIA STATEMENT
29 January 2008
Prime Minister Abdullah’s claim that Malaysia is currently ranked 8th in the world in terms of competitiveness is deliberately misleading.
Closer examination of the data reveals that this is true only within the category of countries with a population of 20 million or more.
According to the full World Competitiveness Report 2007 as cited [...]
source: www.malaysiakini.com
January 29, 2008
People are suffering with the price hikes. They are already hard-pressed so just let them voice out their grievances. Don’t shut them out.
On Opposition condemns mass arrests
Nirmala Naidu: The more the government tries to shut us up, the more we are going to rebel. There are more rallies and demonstrations that [...]
My friends,
No sooner did the RCI decide not to call Anwar Ibrahim’s testimony on the VK Lingam video clip on grounds the information he posseses is irrelevant, Dato Seri Anwar has released another segment of the Lingam tape recording. In this segment the predecessor to Ahmed Fairuz and the former Chairman of the Royal Commission [...]
Kepada rakan seperjuangan, sahabat handai, penyokong Parti KeADILan Rakyat dan seluruh rakyat Malaysia,
Biarlah apa yang dikatakan oleh Perdana Menteri Abdullah Badawi mengenai tarikh pilihanraya atau beliau masih menunggu tibanya ilham, saya, kamu dan semua penyokong sekarang bersiap-sedia untuk menghadapi pilihanraya umu yang ke-12. Ianya mungkin diadakan diantara sambutan Tahun Baru Cina hingga pertengahan bulan Mac [...]
Watch and decide:
I got this via email from a friend in Washington DC today. His reaction after the video on my blog is:
“He sounds like George Bush, lying all the way. His body language gives him away. At least, George learned to lie convincingly, maybe because he is educated at Yale [...]
Report on William Leong’s speech at Sungai Lallang, Kedah
(reported by Din Merican)
In an earlier presentation at Sungai Lallang, Sdr. William Leong briefed the audience on the progress of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the VK Lingam “Correct, Correct, Correct” video clip. He said that the system of rule of law should be the [...]
Here is another of my favorites by John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci. It is dedicated to my young Filipino friends, Anna and Charlene I met when I was part of the discourse team at the Asian Renaissance Leadership Programme at Lembah Impian Resort, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah in early December, 2007. This programme was [...]
source:www.malaysiakini.com
By Dean Johns
January 23, 2008
You won’t remember this, as it was so long ago and you’ve had far more pressing matters on your mind, but back in November 2006 I wrote a column for Malaysiakini titled An aide memoire on amnesia.
I’d almost forgotten about this myself until recent events in Malaysia jogged my memory [...]
by Din Merican
Sungai Lallang, Kedah
January 26, 2008
At Ceramah Umum in Sungai Lallang, not far from Sungei Patani, yesterday night (January 25, 2008), Parti KeADILan Rakyat’s Secretary-General, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim told a gathering of 1200 people from all walks of life who braved the heavy drizzle that PKR and its partners PAS and Democratic Action [...]
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