December 14, 2010 WikiLeaks and LikiLeaks by Umapagan Amikapaikan@www.nst.com.my IT is the holiday season and WikiLeaks is the gift that keeps on giving. It is the tide that refuses to be stemmed. It is the bloody wound that just will not clot. It is the counterpoint to the modern high-tech security state — listening, watching, [...]
Archive for December 2010
WikiLeaks and LikiLeaks
December 14, 2010Singapore’s Disdain Exposed
December 14, 2010December 14, 2010 www.thestar.com.my Singapore’s Disdain Exposed Comment By Mergawati Zulfakar SINGAPORE’S most senior Foreign Ministry official Bilahari Kausikan is heading for Kuala Lumpur on December 22 as a leader of a delegation to discuss KTM Berhad’s land swap deal in Singapore agreed in May by the Prime Ministers of the two countries. This is [...]
The Life and Tragedy of a Sports Legend and Olympian
December 13, 2010December 13, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Jennings NY Times Sunday Book Review Review of NATIVE AMERICAN SON: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe by Kate Buford by Jay Jennings* A century after Jim Thorpe first found athletic fame at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, his sporting career is preserved primarily by witnesses’ words rather [...]
RPK: MSM’s Flavour of the Month
December 12, 2010December 12, 2010 http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/ With friends like Raja Petra and Haris Ibrahim, PKR does not need enemies by Desi YL Chong* I recently wrote an article thinking aloud why Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) the blogger now-in-exile in Britain has been writing some articles highly critical of Parti Keadilan Rakyat, especially regarding its de facto leader [...]
Singapore-Malaysia Relations at Risk
December 12, 2010December 12, 2010 Singapore-Malaysia Relations: Najib’s Move for Better Relations could be in jeopardy Comment: It will be interesting to see how Singaporean diplomats can diffuse this situation. One would have thought the Najib-Lee diplomacy had put an end to the sour relations that existed between the two countries in the past. As someone who [...]
Anwar walked in a Political Trap
December 12, 2010December 12, 2010 http://www.malaysia-today.net Sodomy 2: Anwar walked into a Political Trap “The Australians said that Singapore’s intelligence services and [Singaporean elder statesman] Lee Kuan Yew have told ONA in their exchanges that opposition leader Anwar ‘did indeed commit the acts for which he is currently indicted’.” by Philip Dorling and Nick McKenzie, The Sydney [...]
Robert Phang Slams AG Gani Patail – Remove Him!
December 11, 2010December 11, 2010 Robert Phang Slams AG Gani Patail - Remove Him! by Din Merican I have said it before and I say it again- AG Gani Patail is a liability to this government! I am so disgusted reading the second open letter from Dato Mat Zain Ibrahim, former KL CID Chief, to the IGP, [...]
Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom on 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
December 11, 2010December 11, 2010 www.huffingtonpost.com Jeffrey Wasserstrom on 2010 Nobel Peace Prize This year’s Nobel Peace Prize generated an unusual amount of attention, from scores of commentaries on the meaning of Liu Xiaobo’s selection, to intensive coverage of the Chinese government’s often paranoid reaction to his win, to live-blogging of the dramatic ceremony that just took [...]
Fire in Oslo over Liu’s Nobel Prize
December 11, 2010December 11, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com Fire in Oslo over Liu’s Nobel Peace Prize By Thor Halvorssen OSLO, Norway–Today the world’s worst human rights violators drew a line in the sand by boycotting this afternoon’s Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony. By declining their invitations Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, China, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sri [...]
Mongkut and Tean’s Choice for our Weekend Entertainment
December 10, 2010December 10, 2010 Music for Your Weekend Entertainment–Mongkut Bean and Tean Rean’s Choice Friends, For this weekend’s entertainment, Dr Kamsiah and I have decided to feature hits which have been chosen by New Yorker Mongkut Bean and Changlun(Kedah) born Thai Tean Rean,who have been deputising for us for the past 2 weeks when we [...]
Of Black Eyes and Forged Letters
December 10, 2010December 10, 2010 OF BLACK EYES AND FORGED LETTERS: Malice plus Overzealousness equals Criminality by Dr. Malcolm Puthucherry. That day in September 1998 when Anwar Ibrahim was produced in court sporting a black eye and a bruised face after being assaulted during police custody was to me the day when Malaysia’s international reputation really hit [...]
Irony MSM spin?
December 10, 2010December 10, 2010 Anwar’s Adventures in Irony by Azmi Anshar @www.nst.com.my IRONY is a fitting suit perfectly cut for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to wear and show off on the political catwalk, never mind that each adventure in irony gets to be more bizarre than the next, a feat Anwar has consistently demonstrated since his [...]
The First 50 Years of Malaysian Foreign Policy
December 9, 2010December 9, 2010 BOOK REVIEW Malaysia’s Foreign Policy–The First Fifty Years-Alignment, Neutralism and Islamism by Johan Saravanamuttu ISEAS(Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) Publishing (2010) 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Pasir Panjang Singapore 119614 By Ambassador Dato’ Renji Sathiah* Johan Saravanamuttu has written a scholarly, authoritative and eloquent book on the first fifty years of Malaysia’s [...]
“Anti-National”: Right Word, Wrong Coalition
December 9, 2010December 9, 2010 www.malaysiakini.com Kee Thuan Chye’s Response to Najib’s Barisan Nasional Convention Speech COMMENT What Prime Minister Najib Razak said at the opening of the BN convention last Sunday reflects a mind of the lowest common denominator. It is not the kind of mind one expects of a prime minister. He stooped really low [...]
Ketuanan Melayu: A Risky Experiment
December 8, 2010December 8, 2010 Ketuanan Melayu: A Risky Experiment by Mariam Mokhtar@www.malaysiakini.com I was born Malay and was hardly conscious of my race, either at school or at home. Race hardly cropped up in conversation except when we had form-filling to do – like applying for an identity card. Religion was something sacred and the only [...]
Goodbye, Sam, you are leaving the gang
December 8, 2010December 8, 2010 Goodbye Sam — A subaltern and survivor departs COMMENT Not with a bang but with a whimper did S Samy Vellu end yesterday his 31-year reign as MIC supremo. Someone who has lasted this long without expiring in office is usually accorded a send-off reserved for deceased monarchs. Instead Samy Vellu exited [...]
Just Do It as Deeds Matter, Mr. Prime Minister
December 7, 2010December 7, 2010 For Critical Discourse Mr Prime Minister: Now it is the time to “Just Do It” as Deeds Matter The full text of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s Speech at the Barisan Nasional Convention on December 5, 2010 is reproduced below: Ladies & Gentlemen, First of all, let us together give unreserved thanks [...]
