December 23, 2009 Top Cop’s Lawyer Case: Defence allowed to challenge graft notice by Shazwan Mustafa Kamal The question of motive is still playing out as a central theme surrounding the case of lawyer Rosli Dahlan, with the Sessions Court ruling today that the defence could question a deputy public prosecutor on his motive in [...]
Archive for December 2009
Moral Victory for Rosli Dahlan: Day 3
December 23, 2009Call for Probe on Mahathir is wrongheaded
December 23, 2009December 23, 2009 Probe on Mahathir would be a Farce by Terence Netto The call for a probe into the billions allegedly wasted on hubristic projects in the 22 years Dr Mahathir Mohamad was prime minister is wrongheaded. Would-be investigators would find they are on a hiding to nothing, not because no waste occurred; it [...]
Missing Jet Engines, what else will go missing?,Malaysians ask
December 23, 2009December 23, 2009 Our Xmas and New Year Gift: Missing Jet Engines ‘The rot starts from the head. Once bad examples have been set by top leaders, the subordinates take the cue and the rot spreads like cancer. Where is the credibility of what the PM says?’ Missing jet engine: PM promises no cover-up Karma: [...]
RPK’s Take on the Rosli Dahlan Trial (Day 1)
December 22, 2009December 22, 2009 RPK’s Take on the Rosli Dahlan Trial (Day 1)-December 21, 2009 Under cross-examination, Kevin admitted that there was bad blood between Ramli and the IGP. The IGP had blocked Ramli’s Pingat Polis award on grounds that he is under investigation, thus unqualified to be the Deputy IGP — and therefore also not [...]
Take Not The Road to Zimbabwe
December 22, 2009Take Not The Road to Zimbabwe by Dr Azly Rahman ‘In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” – H G Wells How is Malaysia not like a Zimbabwe and how must it not be transformed into one? This is a 220 billion Ringgit question, taking 22 years to be answered. The [...]
Rosli Dahlan’s Trial: Day 2
December 22, 2009Rosli Dahlan’s Trial: Day 2 by Debra Chang Lawyer Rosli Dahlan was only a witness and not a suspect in a 2007 Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) investigation involving a former senior policeman, the Sessions Court was told today. Deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais is the prosecution’s second witness to take the oath in the ongoing [...]
Rosli Dahlan’s Trial begins
December 21, 2009December 21, 2009 Rosli Dahlan’s Trial begins: MACC Director Azmi Ismail was evasive when questioned by the Defence by Debra Chong The Sessions Court here today finally heard the trial of lawyer Rosli Dahlan, who is implicated in an ongoing corruption case against former senior cop, Datuk Ramli Yusuff. Rosli, 48, a partner in Lee [...]
Pakatan Rakyat Policy Agenda
December 21, 2009December 21, 2009 Pakatan Rakyat Policy Agenda: A Way Out of the Worsening Crisis by Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad Pakatan Rakyat hereby put forward a policy agenda to lead the people and this nation out of the current worsening crisis. The people’s development agenda has been derailed due to a narrow understanding of race, divisive hate [...]
Democracy Award goes to Anwar Ibrahim
December 21, 2009December 21, 2009 Anwar Ibrahim wins Democracy Award by Terence Netto Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim said democracy must never translate into tyrannical rule by the majority, the “despotism of the majority” that even famous defenders of this form of government had feared it could become. Speaking at a ceremony in Shah Alam today where he [...]
The Pakatan Rakyat Surprise
December 20, 2009December 20, 2009 Anwar Ibrahim’s Closing Speech at PR Convention (December 19, 2009)-Part 1 Part 2 The Pakatan Rakyat Surprise The main thing that got Pakatan Rakyat parties winning 82 federal seats and five states in Election 2008 was the fact that the three parties are not the Barisan Nasional. Well, the trio – DAP, PAS [...]
Personal Impressions of the Historic Pakatan Rakyat Convention
December 19, 2009December 19, 2009 Historic First Pakatan Rakyat Convention: Democracy, Freedom and Justice for Malaysians is now possible I arrived at the Convention Hall of Majlis Bandaran Shah Alam early this morning to witness political history in the making. It was the coming together in a formal and business-like manner of Parti KeADILan Rakyat, Democratic Action [...]
PR’s Common Policy Framework: A Project of National Liberation
December 19, 2009December 19, 2009 Pakatan Rakyat’s Common Policy Framework is a project of national liberation, says Zaid Ibrahim by Terence Netto Zaid Ibrahim, Pakatan Rakyat’s policy coordinator, described the launch of the coalition’s Common Policy Framework(CPF) as the vital first stage of a project of national liberation. “Today we take one decisive, deliberate and historic step [...]
Anwar Ibrahim’s Keynote Speech at First Pakatan Rakyat Convention in Shah Alam, Selangor
December 19, 200919hb. Disember, 2009 Tek Ucapan Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim di Konvensyen Pakatan Rakyat, 19hb. Disember 2009, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan Para Hadirin yang saya hormati sekalian, Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh. Saya ambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan terima kasih kepada YAB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Mentri Besar, Selangor Darul Ehan, yang menjadi tuan rumah konvensyen yang [...]
Dr K.S. Jomo: Vision 2020 could be delayed by 10 years
December 19, 2009Malaysia’s Vision 2020 could be delayed by 10 years, opined Dr. K.S. Jomo by Malaysiakini (December 18, 2009) Malaysia’s vision of becoming a developed nation by the year 2020 will be delayed by 10 years, said the country’s best known economist, Dr Kwame S. Jomo. According to Dr. Jomo, who is a senior United Nations [...]
Malaysian Customs delay release of Barry Wain’s Mahathir Mohamad
December 19, 2009Asia Sentinel Malaysian Customs hold back release of Barry Wain’s Book on Mahathir Mohamad by John Berthelsen (December 18, 2009) The Customs Department have been holding up delivery of 800 copies of an authoritative new biography of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for the past three weeks in Port Klang. The book, ‘Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir [...]
Support Rosli Dahlan’s Fight Against Arrogance of Power
December 18, 2009December 18, 2009 Also Top Posts on Dec 19, 2007, Blogs of the Day- Rank 51 WP worldwide http://botd.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/top-posts-1331/ Fight to allow Appeal against Abdul Razak Baginda’s Acquittal for the Murder of Mongolian Model and Stand By Rosli Dahlan The Ramli trial ends and Rosli Dahlan’s trial begins on Monday December 21, 2009 at the Special Criminal [...]
Pakatan Rakyat pledges sweeping economic reforms
December 18, 2009December 18, 2009 Pakatan Rakyat pledge sweeping economic reforms for Malaysia by Andrew Ong (December 17, 2009) Pakatan Rakyat has pledged to bring sweeping economic reforms to the country by decentralising economic management of the country’s 13 states. This was among one of the key points to be presented in the Pakatan Rakyat common policy [...]
