Grand Saga: Police Power vs Peoples Power

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Gov’t still taking rakyat for granted

 

Penang Watch | May 12, 08 4:40pm
 

I have been reading with amusement how the various Barisan Nasional parties such as Gerakan, MCA, MIC and PPP have been ‘re-organizing and re-positioning’ themselves to be acceptable to the rakyat after their devastating losses in the last general election. Most of them seem to see the little pictures [...]

Free spectacles for blind politicians

 

Edmond R | May 12, 08 4:45pm
 

It was a case of the blind leading the blind when the Penang State Education Department denied Dr P Ramasamy, the state’s Deputy Chief Minister II, the opportunity to distribute free spectacles to 223 poor students in Penang recently. The reason cited by Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka [...]

PGCC project: Lim wants answers

 

Athi Veeranggan | May 12, 08 12:38pm
 

The controversial mega Penang Global City Centre project saga continues with the present Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng requesting his predecessor Koh Tsu Koon to guide him “on how to re-zone the project site to its original zoning”.
“After all, he was the one who had reclassified the site zone [...]

KJ’s NUJ keynote speech in full

Malaysiakini
 

May 10, 08 11:00pm

Below is the keynote speech delivered by Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin at the National Union of Journalists forum ‘General Elections 2008: Press Freedom’, organised to commemorate the May 3 World Press Freedom Day.
Someone related to me this description of Malaysian journalists. In the first few years of their career, they will [...]