Khamis, 14 Julai 2011

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Bersih: My final thoughts

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:50 AM PDT

By Art Harun July 14, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JULY 14 — "Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise." — Cato the Elder (234 BC – 149 BC) from Plutarch, Lives. [...]

How democratic elections still failed Sabah

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:42 AM PDT

By Erna Mahyuni July 14, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JULY 14 — "How can you say our elections are unfair when BN lost five states in 2008?" I hear that refrain over and over again to the point I want to scream. And stage my own private rally in front of Putrajaya. Let me [...]

BERSIH 2.0: Pengalaman Saya

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:18 AM PDT

By Khalid Samad 14 July 2011 Pengalaman saya bersama Perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 bermula pada jam 11 pagi apabila saya dengan seorang teman dari PAS Shah Alam menuju ke Kuala Lumpur. Pada mulanya kami mencuba Lebuh Raya Persekutuan. Ianya sesak dari sebelum Tol Batu 3. Kami cuba pintas melalui Glenmarie. Trafik sesak di hadapan kilang pengedar [...]

BN losing the cyberwar again

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:13 AM PDT

By Oon Yeoh Jul 14, 11 | MalaysiaKini What a difference a year makes. Around this time last year, I wrote an article entitled The Cyberwar of 2012 for my weekly Oon Time column in theSun newspaper. In it, I wrote about how Barisan Nasional seemed to be getting the upper hand in the online [...]

Something unspeakably holy about Bersih 2.0

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:08 AM PDT

By Steven Foong July 14, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider 1000hr – Ka Vee arrives at my house. We bought toothpaste, salt and drinking water before going for breakfast. He was wearing a "Racism is so Yesterday" T-shirt by Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia. I laugh and joked, "You most likely won't make it past the [...]

Kedah ban on entertainment outlets during Ramadan – MB should revoke decision

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:43 AM PDT

I have been in contact with the DAP Kedah State Chairman and Kota Darul Aman State Assemblyman Lee Guan Aik on the Kedah ban on 13 types of entertainment outlets from operating during Ramadan. Lee reports that Kedah DAP had never agreed to the ban and that the matter was never raised at the Kedah [...]

Ramadan ban lands PAS and DAP in the soup

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:14 AM PDT

By Susan Loone Jul 14, 11 | MalaysiaKini A big storm is shaking up the Pakatan Rakyat in Kedah over the PAS-led government’s recent ban on entertainment outlets during Ramadan. PAS’ coalition partner, DAP, has expressed disappointment over the new ruling, accusing accused the former of not consulting its partners before deciding on the controversial [...]

Suhakam public inquiry into police brutality most laudable

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:21 AM PDT

The decision of Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) to hold a public inquiry into police excessive use of force, violence and brutality during last Saturday's Bersih 2.0 rally is most timely and laudable. In fact, if the Malaysian police subscribes to the principles of democratic policing to protect the rights and interests of the citizens and [...]

Yes, minister, you are wrong!

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:10 AM PDT

By Dr Hsu Dar Ren July 14, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JULY 14 — Article 18, Part II of the Fourth Geneva Convention (August 12, 1949) states clearly that: "Civilian hospitals organised to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack [...]

It’s between evil and good

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:07 AM PDT

By The Malaysian Insider July 14, 2011 JULY 14 — We are not interested in the politicians who lined up behind Bersih 2.0 or those who chose to fight against the cause of clean and free elections. We are interested in the thousands of Malaysians (not Malays, Chinese or Indians or Kadazans, etc) who marched [...]

If only every day was July 9

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:02 AM PDT

By Joey Sze July 14, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JULY 14 — Many people were surprised that I attended the rally despite all the hoo-hah and clampdowns. Someone who describes me as "soft spoken" commended me on my "courage" and "strength." The truth is that I am a little surprised myself. I am, by [...]

Bersih rally may point to unequal wealth distribution, says Financial Times

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:54 AM PDT

By Clara Chooi July 14, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak should take heed of last Saturday's mass protest as a possible show of public distaste on income disparity in Malaysia, aside from a push for electoral reform, the Financial Times has said. The daily reported in [...]

My march for the real one Malaysia

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:05 AM PDT

By Lucia Lai Jul 14, 11 | MalaysiaKini EYEWITNESS I had, long before July 9, already made up my mind to attend the Bersih 2.0 rally in Kuala Lumpur. I missed the 2007 rally, so I was very determined to make it to this one. I even started a ‘Penangites attending Bersih 2.0 rally’ event [...]

Suhakam to probe ‘police brutality’ during rally

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:02 AM PDT

By MalaysiaKini Jul 14, 11 The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) is to hold a public inquiry into allegations of police brutality during last Saturday’s Bersih 2.0 rally in the streets of Kuala Lumpur. However, Suhakam still studying the terms and reference for such an inquiry, which would be made public later, the organisation [...]

Predators and preys on July 9

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:50 PM PDT

By B Nantha Kumar July 14, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today Comment I am a photojournalist and having witnessed four major rallies – Bersih 1.0, Hindraf, Anti-ISA and PPSMI (a rally against the teaching of science and mathematics in English) – I feel compelled to register my shock and awe at how the July 9, [...]

On 709 Bersih 1Malaysia come of age

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:40 PM PDT

On 709, the Bersih 1Malaysia generation came of age, where Malaysians regardless of race, religion, region, gender or age overcame fear to come together for a peaceful demonstration of their love, loyalty and patriotism to king and country and their resolve and commitment to bring about change where there is clean elections, trustworthy politics and [...]

Police allow three MPs to visit EO detainee Jeyakumar

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:11 AM PDT

By MalaysiaKini Jul 14, 11 After drawn-out negotiations, police today gave permission for three lawmakers to visit Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar, now held under the Emergency Ordinance in Kuala Lumpur. According to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, the inspector-general of police allowed only three parliamentarians to visit Jeyakumar at 11am, tomorrow. They [...]

Jeyakumar, the activist doctor

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:29 PM PDT

By Khoo Boo Teik Jul 14, 11 | MalaysiaKini COMMENT Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, or Kumar as I call him, is a public figure of enormous stature. Very much respected for his achievements and contributions to medicine and public health in Malaysia, he was the recipient of the Malaysian Medical Association’s 1999 Award for Community Service. [...]

I did the BERSIH thing for my babies

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:48 PM PDT

By Goh Siu Lin July 13, 2011 | AWL I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and I happen to be a lawyer too. Mine was a spontaneous decision to go to the rally. Something struck a chord in me when I heard my senior partner tell stories of BERSIH 2007, of [...]

Raja Aziz – A legal mandarin’s sad last days

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:45 PM PDT

By Terence Netto Jul 14, 11 | MalaysiaKini Raja Aziz Addruse, for all his ultimate eminence as a lawyer, must have felt himself a marginal man, especially in the last decades before his death on Tuesday from lymphatic cancer at the age of 75. Nothing exemplified this peripheral stature than the refusal of the Federal [...]
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