Rabu, 22 Jun 2011

Lim Kit Siang

Lim Kit Siang


Bersih rally – chill down BN’s spine

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:30 PM PDT

By Jeswan Kaur June 22, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today There is something about the July 9 rally to be held by election watchdog Bersih 2.0 that has left the Barisan Nasional (BN) government shivering in its pants. Otherwise, there would be no reason for Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his bandwagon of cronies [...]

Motions on money politics and ‘corrupt’ CM rejected

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:32 PM PDT

By Joseph Tawie June 23, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today KUCHING: The Sarawak Legislative Assembly Speaker Asfia Awang Nasar yesterday rejected bids by opposition DAP to debate money politics in the recent state elections and allegations of corruption against Chief Minister Taib Mahmud. Citing various ground to support his decision, Asfia rejected Opposition Leader Wong [...]

Land Bill aimed at ‘punishing natives’

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:19 PM PDT

By Joseph Tawie June 23, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today KUCHING: The bill to bar Sarawak natives from seeking legal redress for grievances involving their native customary rights (NCR) to land is draconian, says Sarawak DAP. State chairman Wong Ho Leng said the move clearly showed that the government of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud [...]

Bersih 2.0 — is there a third alternative?

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:58 PM PDT

By Anas Zubedy June 23, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JUNE 23 — Bersih 2.0 is scheduled for July 9 in the KL city centre. Even now supporters are rallying people to take part. The news has gone viral; many are excited. At the other end, Perkasa wants to retaliate by having a counter-rally with [...]

Dr M blames press for worsening race relations

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:58 PM PDT

By Shannon Teoh | June 23, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad blamed press freedom today for poor race relations which, he claimed, had worsened since he stepped down as prime minister in 2003. He said that this was because press freedom has allowed racial and religious tension [...]

Ambiga receives SMS death threat

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:57 PM PDT

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal | June 23, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Bersih chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan has received a death threat via text message which was also sent this morning to reporters and some members of the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih). The text message warned Ambiga as [...]

Bersih 2.0: Why I will march

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:55 PM PDT

By June Rubis June 23, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JUNE 23 — We can only look back at our past to recognise the pivotal points that have brought us to where we are today. Today, I am blessed to have a boss who supports and shares the same passions as I do: playing a [...]

We’ve made a big mistake, says Lynas boss

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:54 PM PDT

Malaysiakini | Jun 23, 11 Lynas boss Nicholas Curtis has conceded that his company made the mistake of failing to adequately engage the community in Kuantan over fears of radioactive waste from its controversial rare earth plant. “We made a mistake, and it was a big mistake, of thinking that because we have met the [...]

Through my aging eyes: We are at the mercy of Nature

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:43 PM PDT

By Edwin Bosi When I visited Tambatuon village in Kadamaian Kota Belud in April 2011 with YB Jimmy Wong and DAP Sabah political leaders it was actually partly a fact-finding mission. We heard so much of Tambatuon through the news media, their fight for survival against a proposed dam that will in the word of [...]

Chun Wai should not be blamed

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:25 PM PDT

By bujai | June 22, 2011 The readers’ poll on ‘Bersih 2.0′ which was carried by The Star newspaper drew mixed reactions from politicians, the media and blog writers. Some said it was tantamount to The Star throwing its full support for the planned rally next month while others described it as an immodesty. To [...]

Improving The Odds For Our Disadvantaged Students

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:45 PM PDT

By M. Bakri Musa Students from a disadvantaged background face many challenges; thus it is not a surprise that they lag academically. This has always been true and accepted as normal. The consequence to this acceptance is that the students' disadvantaged background becomes too ready an excuse for teachers and policymakers not to address the [...]

So True – but why you can’t believe everything on Internet

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:42 PM PDT

Letter Now THIS is why you can’t believe any picture you see on the Internet! The guy who did these pictures did an awesome job! And “they” can do the same thing with text and Video so we must be careful what we believe and send on as fact.

Scholarships for those who earn and need it

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:59 PM PDT

Yap Mun Ching The Sun 23 June 2011 AFTER many years of opaque silence, the debate over tertiary education scholarships has finally boiled over with public demands for the list of renegade Public Services Department Scholarship (PSD) holders to be published and at least one father threatening to sue a corporate foundation for not giving [...]

Najib says 1 Malaysia more than just rhetoric

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:37 AM PDT

By Shannon Teoh June 22, 201 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 — Two years after coming to office with his 1 Malaysia concept, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today that the slogan was more than empty rhetoric but a policy that will improve the lives of the public. He said the 1 [...]

Kit Siang offers to prove Ibrahim Ali’s Chinese threat

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:35 AM PDT

By Clara Chooi June 22, 201 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 — DAP's Lim Kit Siang offered today to deliver a copy of Datuk Ibrahim Ali's speech on Sunday to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Home Minister to prove that the Perkasa president had threatened the Chinese community. Describing him [...]

Malaysia’s Comical Ali

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:33 AM PDT

By Dean Johns Jun 22, 11 | MalaysiaKini For a criminal regime to survive and thrive, it has to look deadly serious. So you know it’s in dire distress when it has to resort to sending in the clowns. The most classic instance of this, as we all vividly recall, was Saddam Hussein’s employment of [...]

Kit Siang spells out case for July 9 rally

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:26 AM PDT

MalaysiaKini Jun 22, 11 If certain quarters claim not to know why the Bersih 2.0 rally on July 9 needs to be held, the reasons have been provided by the BN leaders themselves within and outside Parlaiament, said DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang today. The first reason is contained in the Prime Minister’s Department’s [...]

Ex-Perlis mufti Asri backs Bersih’s intentions

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:24 AM PDT

MalaysiaKini Jun 22, 11 Former Perlis mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin said after hearing and evaluating the briefing given by the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih), he found its intentions to be good. Asri said he had been swarmed with questions over the Bersih campaign and for him to take a stand [...]

Ibrahim Ali as guilty as hell

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:50 AM PDT

I have seen the video recording of the speech by the Perkasa President Ibrahim Ali at the launch of the Bersih 2.0 counter-protest in Kampung Baru in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday and there can be no doubt that he is as guilty as hell in his incendiary, inciteful and treasonous "Chinese should stock up food" [...]

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