Entries from March 2008

March 27, 2008

Bloggers go ‘berak’ in Perak

Dean Johns |

Pardon my language, but I just couldn’t resist such a golden opportunity for this wordplay. 
And in any case my language is less colourful than that employed by some bloggers and their commentators in decrying Lim Kit Siang’s declaration last week that he and DAP colleagues would boycott the swearing-in of PAS secretary Mohamad [...]

March 27, 2008

New politics and the Indian Malaysian

 DR M NADARAJAH
The facts of the 12th general election have been recounted several times, but not the meaning of events of the socio-political drama that unfolded and burst into the public arena over the last six months, leading up to polling day.
On the ground, the election results are the outcome:
(i) the history of what the [...]

March 27, 2008

Showdown in Tibet

Warren W Smith |

On March 14, the otherworldly calm of Lhasa, Tibet’s holy city, was shattered by riots and gunfire. The spark that triggered unrest in the Tibetan part of what is now a largely ethnic Han Chinese city is unclear, but occurred somewhere near the Ramoche Temple when Chinese security forces attempted to stop [...]

March 27, 2008

S’gor reps lend voice to Bkt Gasing residents

(Malaysiakini) 
Property developer Gasing Meridien Sdn Bhd found a bigger stumbling block against its ambition to build bungalows on Bukit Gasing today.
While in the past, DAP’s Edward Lee Poh Lin (Bukit Gasing state assemblyperson) was merely an opposition squeak, today he has a more powerful voice backed up by his PKR colleagues.
Together with Elizabeth Wong (Bukit [...]

March 27, 2008

Umno polls in Dec, Ahmad backed as MB

After a four-hour marathon Supreme Council meeting, Umno today decided that it could not defer its party polls and at the same time give its support for Kijal state representative Ahmad Said as the new Terengganu menteri besar.
Umno president Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today said the party had asked former Terengganu menteri besar Idris Jusoh to [...]