Lim Kit Siang

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• Why July 9 must go on
• 23 Kajang councillors hauled up over Bersih T-shirts
• EC Deputy Chairman Wan Ahmad showed his true colours of lacking 3Is of independence, impartiality and integrity when he launched attacks on Bersih as Pakatan Rakyat “stooge”
• Home minister ‘cooking up’ laws
• Bersih to cops: Name route, we will follow
• ‘Yellow wave’ in Parliament by Pakatan reps
• Anas responds to Commander (Rtd) S. Thayaparan
• Good thing we are a democracy
• The outing of Anas Zubedy
• Clampdown will only swell Bersih numbers, says Pakatan
• Why no raids on Perkasa and Umno Youth?
• ‘Minority Report’ now playing in Malaysia
• Design problems, hazardous construction plague Lynas plant, reports NYT
• Private broadcasters told to ignore Bersih, warn people against protests
• Attracting the Best To Teaching

Why July 9 must go on Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:19 AM PDT by June Rubis The Malaysian Insider Jun 30, 2011 JUNE 30 — I've noticed something interesting of late. A few middle-class intellectuals back-pedalling on their initial support for Bersih 2.0. They say, yes I support this (in theory) but do we really need to march now? Haven't we done enough to highlight the issues? Haven't [...]

23 Kajang councillors hauled up over Bersih T-shirts Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:14 AM PDT Jimadie Shah Othman | Jun 30, 11 Malaysiakini The clampdown against Bersih T-shirts continues, with 23 Kajang councillors being called up by police today for questioning for wearing the shirts at the full board meeting yesterday. But of this number, only seven were present at the Kajang district police station this evening, while the others [...]

EC Deputy Chairman Wan Ahmad showed his true colours of lacking 3Is of independence, impartiality and integrity when he launched attacks on Bersih as Pakatan Rakyat “stooge” Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:52 AM PDT If there is a nation-wide quiz asking Malaysians who could be responsible for the two following headlines on online media today, "Bersih is Pakatan stooge in bid for Putrajaya" and "Bersih Pakatan's catspaw", I don't think anyone who is not in the know could get it right despite everyone being given three guesses each. The [...]

Home minister ‘cooking up’ laws Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:50 AM PDT By Tarani Palani | June 30, 2011 Free Malaysia Today KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition MPs today criticised Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein for acting outside the law in banning the yellow Bersih 2.0 T-shirts and questioned the legal basis for the Bersih-related clampdown."We have a minister who is making the law on the run without parliamentary sanction," [...]

Bersih to cops: Name route, we will follow Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:57 AM PDT Joseph Sipalan | Jun 30, 11 Malaysiakini Despite the string of arrests and dire warnings from the police, the Bersih 2.0 committee today sought to make peace with the men in blue and asked for their help to make their July 9 rally a peaceful event. Bersih 2.0 chief S Ambiga said they had a [...]

‘Yellow wave’ in Parliament by Pakatan reps Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:55 PM PDT By Hazlan Zakaria | Jun 30, 11 Malaysiakini Pakatan Rakyat MPs turned up in Parliament decked out in various articles in the distinctive yellow of Bersih to protest the police clampdown on the electoral reform rally. Most of the men sported ties in the ‘official’ Bersih 2.0 colour or others in shades of yellow, while [...]

Anas responds to Commander (Rtd) S. Thayaparan Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:52 PM PDT By Anas Zubedy Commander (Rtd) S. Thayaparan, Thank you for your letter. It is nice to see that you started your letter with a salam, although in zorro-unmasked.blogspot.com, they took out the earlier parts of your letter. I would like to make a few comments. Like you, I am not for race-based political parties. I [...]

Good thing we are a democracy Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:39 PM PDT By Natalie Shobana Ambrose | June 29, 2011 The Malaysian Insider JUNE 29 — In some countries, people get put in jail for speaking up against injustices. They then get left there for years and are sometimes forgotten. Good thing this doesn't happen in Malaysia, especially since we're a democracy. In some countries, the media [...]

The outing of Anas Zubedy Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:37 PM PDT By Commander (Rtd) S. Thayaparan | 29 June 2011 CPIAsia Introduction by CPI Although this rebuttal to an open letter has been posed elsewhere, we feel it deserves wider public attention. This is because the subject matter with which the two letters deal, and the opinions expressed are representative of the divergent perspectives among the [...]

Clampdown will only swell Bersih numbers, says Pakatan Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:29 PM PDT By Shannon Teoh | June 30, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) said today that it now expects a larger turnout for the July 9 Bersih march as public anger grows over the ongoing dragnet against supporters of the group calling for electoral reform. Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin [...]

Why no raids on Perkasa and Umno Youth? Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:27 PM PDT Malaysiakini Your Say | Jun 30, 11 ‘Umno and Perkasa are showing unruly behaviour with their threats of violence, bloodshed, and arson. Yet the office that got raided is Bersih’s.’ Bersih HQ raided, 7 staff arrested SMC77: Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and PM Najib Razak must take note. It is PDRM (Royal Malaysian Police) and [...]

‘Minority Report’ now playing in Malaysia Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:23 PM PDT Malaysiakini Your Say | Jun 30, 11 ‘For an assembly to be illegal, you must have actually held the assembly. Where does it say in the law that expressing support for a future ‘illegal’ act is illegal?’ Hisham declares Bersih T-shirt illegal Anonymous_4196: Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, why is wearing a T-shirt that represents the [...]

Design problems, hazardous construction plague Lynas plant, reports NYT Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:16 PM PDT The Malaysian Insider | June 30, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — The controversial Lynas rare earths refinery in Kuantan is plagued by environmentally hazardous construction and design problems, the New York Times has reported, citing internal memos and current and former engineers on the project. The report published today said the issues, including moisture [...]

Private broadcasters told to ignore Bersih, warn people against protests Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:13 PM PDT By Jahabar Sadiq, Editor | June 30, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — The Najib administration has warned private broadcasters against mentioning the planned Bersih rally or the protest date but wants them to warn people against taking to the streets to ask for free and fair elections, media executives say. The [...]

Attracting the Best To Teaching Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:09 PM PDT By M. Bakri Musa Early this year the US Department of Education, together with OECD and the Asia Society, convened a summit of education ministers, master teachers, and union leaders from 15 countries. The theme was on attracting, training and retaining the best teachers. Those were no ordinary countries participating; their students had consistently excelled [...]

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