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April 2008

flip flop from the home ministry

i was surprised to read in malaysiakini that the home ministry had suddenly decided to renew the permit of makkal osai. remember on 17 april i had blog about it being banned? the minister was very adamant that permit will not be given. now suddenly he decided to renew makkal …

abolish ISA!

whoa! makkal sakthi is alive in penang indeed! you must have read about the ‘anti ISA’ gathering at the penang chinese town hall on saturday by now. pity i had to give it a miss since i was in ipoh. yes, you can (or already have) read about it in …

chaly giving me problems but i still love him

ok since today is sunday, i’m not going to talk about politics or any current news/issues. i’m going to do a personal post. actually i had written this on friday (before my trip to ipoh) but i let wordpress publish it on today, sunday. i’m going to talk about my …

sexual inneundos from ministers

while i was reading malaysiakini’s ‘anwar files RM10mil suit over sexual innuendo‘….. The RM10 million suit was based on a Malaysiakini report on April 11 last year quoting Wee’s comment at a ceramah on the eve of the Machap by-election in Malacca. Wee (photo), the Ayer Hitam MP then and …

why banned makkal osai?

UPDATED:  so now syed hamid gave a reason – from sun2surf: ‘the newspaper did not abide by the media guidelines, besides having received several complaints against the newspaper.’ hmm… and what were the guidelines that they did not abide to? apparently about makkal osai stoking up racial sentiments. *sigh* there …

the tengku did said it after all

reference my post ‘the tengku might not have said this’. now it comes to my notice (thanks to a comment by anonymous at that post), that haris ibrahim had admitted he had made an error accusing malaysiakini of false report of the tengku’s speech. stevan gan from malaysiakini had personally …

double standard from police in action

the police were so hardworking to go right to the PKR leaders’ houses to issue them with summonses.   from the star: The leaders were issued with summonses requesting them to be present at the Dang Wangi police station at 3pm to answer questions on the gathering held Monday night …

the tengku might not have said this

regarding my post ‘no national unity without malay unity‘, read this from haris ibrahim’s blog: You know the Malaysiakini report by Andrew Ong that has it that Tengku Faris had made some rather un-Bangsa Malaysia statements last week? Well,  Lil’ Hummingbird tells me that she heard from the horse’s mouth that …