Keynote address on US financial turmoil and the future prospects for Asean economies

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Written by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, MP for Permatang Pauh

Posted by Din Merican

September 26, 2008

Speech by Anwar Ibrahim delivered at the CLSA Investor Forum in Hong Kong on Friday 26th September, 2008

What do you do when a financial behemoth implodes?

What can you say about free market capitalism when the world’s leading liberal democracy dumps nearly a trillion dollars in private debt onto taxpayers? Are Freddie Mac and Fannie May along with Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG totally unforeseen victims of systemic once in a lifetime financial meltdowns or are they not really victims of their own greed? When you allow the “mushrooming of weapons of financial mass destruction,??? to borrow a phrase from Warren Buffet then isn’t it written that you shall reap what you sow?

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Since When Has RPK Been a Security Threat?

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By Marina Mahathir

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The Star Online > Nation
Tuesday September 23, 2008 MYT 4:48:45 PM

Raja Petra to be detained 2yrs under ISA (update 2)

By M. MAGESWARI

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin was served with an order Monday night that would see him detained in Kamunting for two years under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

Raja Petra will be held without trial under Section 8(1) of the ISA, reporters were told by his lawyers, who were at the High Court hear to argue their habeas corpus application on Tuesday. The detention order was signed by Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar on Monday night.

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IS THIS A COUNTRY NOT IN DISTRESS?

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

By Bernard Khoo aka zorro

MALAYSIAKI REPORTS:

Raja Petra to be sent to Kamunting Sep 23, 08 9:34am

Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin will be sent to Kamunting Detention Centre in Taiping, Perak today to begin his two-year detention under the Internal Security Act, said his lawyer.

The home minister has signed his detention order last night to be held without trial under section 8 of the tough security law. Under the Act, the government can renew his detention indefinitely.

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Raja Petra detained for 2 years

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Written by various News Agencies

Published in The Malaysian Insider

September 23, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 — A prominent political blogger was jailed for two years under a strict security law that can keep him in prison indefinitely, a lawyer said today.

Online commentator Raja Petra Kamarudin, known for his anti-government views, was already in police custody and was served a detention order last night, said his lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar.

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The Day of Reckoning

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By Ngap Sayot aka Voice from the East September 23, 2008 Today is Sept 23, the day of reckoning. Or the day that will pass by and nothing happens. As I write this, we see West Malaysia is in a state of haywire and amazingly all eyes are suddenly on us in the East now. … Read more

Is today Day of Reckoning?

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By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
 
“Anwar is going to see the Agong tomorrow(?)”.

I wasn’t very sure if Bala meant it as a question or a statement when we spoke last night. He had been more sure of Anwar Ibrahim’s earlier deadline of 16/9, that the Opposition Leader had secured enough number of BN defectors to enable Pakatan Rakyat to form a Government. I told Bala – this was after supper at Chawan in Bangsar yesterday – that I didn’t know if Anwar was meeting the Agong or not.
Is he?

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Public Forum : Abolish ISA

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Written by Haris Ibrahim September 22, 2008   Venue: KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall Date: 23 Sep 2008 (Tues) Time: 8:00 pm     Speakers: Teresa Kok, Selangor State Exco Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, Bar Council PresidentSyed Ibrahim Syed Noh, Chairman of Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI) Lim Guan Eng, Penang Chief Minister Khalid Samad, MP Shah Alam … Read more