March 31, 2011 Finally: Statement by Joint Action Group for Gender Equality* It is time for Malaysian politics to get out of the gutter, stop campaigns to slander personal reputations and focus on the important issues facing Malaysia today. A video that was allegedly filmed on 21 February 2011, which shows a man, allegedly an [...]
Archive for March 2011
Appalled by Gutter Politics in Malaysia
March 31, 2011Ulysses: “To strive, to seek,to find, not to yield”
March 31, 2011March 31, 2011 Alfred Lord Tennyson‘s Ulysses: Uplifting our Spirits Najib must Lead, not be Led The last two stanzas of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses are inspiring for all of us who must face the challenges of living in a much confused Malaysia. We seem to be without direction, drifting in a sea of acronyms [...]
Datuk T Sex Video: Shuib Lazim is the Fall Guy
March 31, 2011March 31, 2011 Regina Lee @www.malaysiakini reports: Datuk T Sex Video: Shuib Lazim is the Fall Guy One of the ‘Datuk T’ trio, PERKASA treasurer Shuib Lazim, has come out to clear the air over his role in the recent sex video purportedly showing an opposition politician having sex with a prostitute. Owning up over [...]
Daim: Previous Models to build BBC failed
March 31, 2011March 31, 2011 Daim: Previous Models to build Bumiputera Business Class(BBC) Failed by Aidila Razak@www.malaysiakini.com Former finance minister Daim Zainuddin today defended the much-criticised New Economic Policy (NEP), but said that previous models used to build a bumiputera business class have failed. Speaking to a full house audience at the sixth installment of the Universiti [...]
Alkitab Row: Federal Government Overtures rejected
March 30, 2011March 30, 2011 Alkitab Row: The CFM rejected Federal Government Overtures by Debra Chong@themalaysianinsider.com Christian Federation of Malaysia Founded in 1986. Mission Statement: We, who are Christians belonging to different Christian churches, denominations and organizations but professing the same Christian faith, have resolved to form the Christian Federation of Malaysia through which we, as a [...]
Public Protest against Lynas Corp of Australia
March 30, 2011March 30, 2011 To Lynas Corp: Pack Up and Leave Gebang, Pahang for Australia by Joseph Sipalan@www.malaysiakini.com A group of Pahang residents has urged Australia’s Lynas Corp to “pack up and leave” Malaysia and abandon plans to build a rare earth refinery in Gebeng, near Kuantan. Vincent Jiam, leader of a group of Pahang residents [...]
Singapore in the Malay World
March 29, 2011March 29, 2011 Book Review Singapore in the Malay World Dr. LILY ZUBAIDAH RAHIM Singapore in the Malay World: Building and Breaching Regional Bridges Abingdon: Routledge, 2009 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-48410-7 Reviewed by P.J. Thum, University of Oxford In her first book The Singapore Dilemma: The Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay community, Prof [...]
Catholic Bishop makes a stand on Sex Video
March 29, 2011Kuantan, Pahang March 29, 2011 Catholic Bishop makes a stand on the Dato T Sex Video Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com reports: Catholic Bishop Dr Paul Tan Che Ing said today the state of a society’s morals was in greater danger from its leaders‘ negligence than from their ignorance. The Bishop of the Melaka-Johor diocese, who is also [...]
Politics of Diversion in the Battle for Sarawak
March 29, 2011Kuantan, Pahang March 29, 2011 Of Blue Movies and Brown Noses –Politics of Diversion by Mariam Mokhtar @www.malaysiakini.com UMNO has served up a red herring in the shape of a sex video which was meant to make us take our eyes off the ball. They wanted us to forget about Sarawak and its chief minister, [...]
Video Sex Case: Rahim TC may escape prosecution
March 28, 2011March 28, 2011 Video Sex Case: Thanks to A-G Gani Patail Rahim Thamby Chik may escape prosecution by Clara Chooi @www.themalaysianinsider.com A former senior police investigating officer said today that he did not expect Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik to be prosecuted over the sex video scandal because of the ultimate involvement of Tan [...]
Biography of the Iconic Great Soul
March 28, 2011March 28, 2011 “Man in connection with the general life of humanity appears subject to laws which determine that life. But the same man apart from that connection appears to be free. How should the past life of nations and of humanity be regarded—as the result of the free, or as the result of the [...]
More on Daim On Anwar
March 28, 2011March 28, 2011 Kuantan, Pahang Daim on Anwar: Unravelling Fact from Fiction by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com How to disentangle fact from fiction, how to extract the kernel of truth from the husk of musings Daim Zainuddin aired yesterday in the Utusan Malaysia, a paper that has made it its mission to destroy the main subject of [...]
Daim on Anwar Ibrahim
March 27, 2011March 27, 2011 Daim on Anwar: … reminds us of the main character in Christopher Marlowe‘s play, Dr Faustus“ Former finance minister Daim Zainuddin has described Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) as a party that lives because of, and only for, Anwar Ibrahim. He said the opposition pact not only devoid of a strong political foundation, [...]
Relax with Dino and Como
March 27, 2011March 27, 2011 Relax with Dean Martin and Perry Como Let us take a trip down memory lane with Dino and Perry. Those were times when life was less political, less confusing and down right simple. Time can never erase these magic moments when we were respectful of one another. Optimistically, we say it is [...]
The New Unholy Trinity’s Sex Video: Stop This Gutter Politics
March 26, 2011March 26, 2011 The New Unholy Trinity’s Sex Video: Stop This Gutter Politics by Din Merican It seemed so timely; the Sarawak State elections was announced on Monday. At the same time, editors and senior reporters from the government controlled mainstream media and also the alternative media were invited to a film screening by Dato [...]
Gombak PR Function Halted by PDRM
March 26, 2011March 26, 2011 Gombak PR(Pakatan Rakyat) Function halted by PDRM (Police) A Pakatan Rakyat (PR) function here turned ugly last night (March 25, 2011) when policemen and Special Branch personnel stopped Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from speaking, resulting in an angry mob attacking the Police(PDRM). Anwar, who was the last speaker for the night, had [...]
Time to Reflect: Is it Use or Abuse of Power?
March 25, 2011March 26, 2011 Time to reflect: Is it Use or Abuse of Power? For your viewing pleasure. There is no music at this time, but it is an occasion to reflect on the happenings in the Middle East, especially now in Libya where American and European air power is being employed to “liberate” Libyans from [...]
