Malaysia’s top political cartoonist Zunar (real name Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque) and his team are launching a fortnightly political humour magazine, Gedung Katun (Cartoon Warehouse), filled with Malaysian parody and satire. The ‘alternative cartoon magazine’ will probably have to compete head-on with the popular Gila-Gila publication in the comic magazine market – with one main difference: … Read more
“Kak Laila, saya dah terjemahkan cerita kamu dalam bahasa Mandarin” kata Chen,seorang wartawan Merdeka Review. Beliau yang sering diusik “seperti kembar saya’ tidak pernah jemu memberi liputan dalam apa saja aktiviti kempen anti-ISA. Selanjutnya … Norlaila ialah isteri kepada tahanan ISA, Mat Shah Mohd Satray yang paling lama masih di Kamunting, serta seorang … Read more
22 August 2009 Rocky’s prognostication about a free press under 1Najib and 1Rosmah (Hah!) got a whacking from Haris of People’s Parliament who pointed to recent dampeners on the press as indicative of the 1NajMah Administration’s poor attitude towards the press in general. But Rocky’s point, I think, is mainly that he is a True … Read more
Readers have recently been flooded with news on the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) recently – over radio, television and the newspapers. Some of the claims made for what is possibly the most ambitious development project packaged for the country are the following: The implementation of 189 projects with an estimated value of RM112 billion … Read more
If it is already our common consensus that Malaysia is a multi-racial country, then we must agree that the country has to show multi-elements: multi-cultures, multi-educations, multi-economy and multi-politics. It is inevitable to have stronger and weaker groups among diversity. Thus, policies to help the weaker group are indeed necessary in certain historical period. But … Read more
‘Speaking for the reformasi generation’ (224 halaman) karya Liew Chin Tong ialah sebuah buku terbitan Refsa/Research for Social Advancement yang baru-baru keluar. Liew, seorang ahli exco pusat DAP merupakan ahli parlimen Bukit Bendera, Pulau Pinang dan kini berpejabat di Komtar sebagai salah seorang pembantu rapat Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng. Sebelum partinya … Read more
Multiethnic Malaysia: Past, Present and Future’ is now available. [See attached flyer.] Jointly published by UCSI University and SIRD, the book of some over 500 pages is edited by Lim Teck Ghee, Alberto Gomes and Azly Rahman. The editors have collated various perspectives from eminent historians, economists and sociologists such as Khoo Kay Kim, Terence … Read more
Oleh kerana Jim tidak sama dengan Islam, maka tidaklah logik jika ulasan itu diperbesar-besarkan dan disamakan dengan Islam telah dihina, lalu didesak agar Akta Hasutan atau ISA diambil terhadap Jeff Ooi. Kempen media aliran perdana untuk memburuk-burukkan DAP sebagai parti anti-Islam telah berhasil buat sementara, sekurang-kurangnya polis telah mengambil keputusan untuk memanggil ketua pemuda Sosialis … Read more
Kee Thuan Chye’s comment, “The Malaysian way to better English??? (The Sun, 14 August) finally lets the cat out of the bag on what really happens in many of the closed door high level brain storming meetings and consultations conducted by the Government on controversial or sensitive issues such as language policy, culture policy, history … Read more
Kee Thuan Chye, who retired from journalism in May, is an advocate of good English, having edited a column on the subject in a national paper for years. He also authored the book March 8: The Day Malaysia Woke Up, which has been translated into Chinese. I was recently invited by the Education Minister … Read more