By Erna Mahyuni
November 7, 2008 2:14 PM
RPK has been released – not via protests, but by due process in a court of law.
It has been a long time since we have been able to believe in our judiciary after the unchecked meddling by our government.
If any of you missed the significance of Obama’s election win, look at the date.
“Remember, remember the 5th of November??? – Guy Fawkes Day.
By YL Chong Friday, November 07, 2008 QUANTUM of SOLACE – ‘UNQUANTIFIABLE’ for a special Malaysian:) YES! FOR ONE THIS MORNING, THE SOLACE IS UNQUANTIFIABLE! For RPK, the SOL-ACE is ace-ing FREEDOM today. Freedom for Editor of Malaysia-Today! Even as I was updating a last-minute APPEAL TO FRIENDS TO ATTEND TONIGHT’s VIGIL IN SEREMBAN AT … Read more
HASNAH & FAMILY LIGHT CANDLES IN PARIS’ NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL TO SAY “NO TO ISA”.
By Bernard Khoo aka zorro
Friday, November 7, 2008
I am appending a mail sent to Laila. Laila is a teacher whose husband MAT SAH bin MOHD SATRAY has been an ISA detainee in Kamunting since 17 April 2002. In April 2008, his detention has been extended for another two years. Laila works tirelessly in GMI for the abolition of the ISA and the release of all detainees. She blogs under Hitam Merah. We have been in constant touch and she is on my blogroll. She alerted me to this posting she received:
Written by Mr. Chong Ton SinED, SIRD November 7, 2008 Save Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD) cordially invites you to the launch of four books by Dr. Syed Husin Ali, the renowned academic turned political activist, prolific author and Deputy President of Parti KeADILan Rakyat (PKR). The event will gather luminaries … Read more
By Yong Thye Chong aka Kim Quek November 6, 2008 In one of the most important political speeches delivered in recent years, former de-facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim touched on the heart of race relations when he gave a rendition on the evolving racial politics in Malaysia that has so bedeviled the nation for … Read more
ANTI-ISA CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IN SEREMBAN Written by YL Chong November 5, 2008 Following a successful *Anti-ISA Candlelight Vigil last Friday in Seremban, the same group of concerned citizens in the capital city of Negri Sembilan are organising the Second Vigil aimed at gathering a larger crowd than the first Vigil’s 150. SECOND ANTI-ISA CANDLELIGHT VIGIL … Read more
Speech by Datuk Zaid Ibrahim at LAW ASIA 200831 October 2008 @ 9.00amKuala Lumpur Convention Centre Malaysia – A Lost Democracy? 1. Let me start by inviting you back into history. Imagine that it is the morning of the 31st of August 1957. At midnight, an independent nation calling itself the Federation of Malaya is to … Read more
Monday, November 3, 2008
Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, read this posting, it is about you!
This site proposes Zaid Ibrahim to head a new political movement to give voters another choice in the next general elections to vote in a new government.
This site sees Zaid Ibrahim as a forward looking intellectual and Shahidan Kassim as a heel-digging, has-been, neo-feudal petty chief whose hidden agenda may well be feathering his own nest. Zaid is a symbol of the new Malay while Shahidan is a symbol of the old Malay which is dragging the country down with too much historical baggage.
By Deborah Loh
The Nut Graph
October 31, 2008
WHEN it comes to justifying the Internal Security Act (ISA) 1960, the Malaysian government has honed its replies down pat — after the usual noises about how we still need such laws to keep the peace, they then fall back on the old chestnut — others are now doing it too.
This deft attempt at deflecting responsibility is being repeatedly played out by our leaders, especially now, when faced with growing calls by civil society groups and even from within the Barisan Nasional (BN) ranks to abolish the law.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
What is 30% Bumiputra Equity?
All it requires is that in, for example a public listed company, one Abdullah Najib Khairy (a Bumiputra) owns 30% of the shares – the we have 30% Bumiputra Equity requirement.
The same one Abdullah Najib Khairy (a Bumiputra) can own 30% of the shares in all them companies – and we have achieved 30% Bumiputra Equity requirement.
(Note: the same applies if and when there is talk about Chinese or Indian or Non-Bumiputra equity…)