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penang cultural fest 2008

actually first read about this about a week ago in ‘straight talk’  khoo kay peng’s blog but i had forgotten about it until today when i saw the poster at malaysiakini. announcing the penang cultural fest 2008, which begins in 2 days time – on 4 dec. with an exhibition …

20th anniversary of world AIDS day

today is world AIDS day. every 1 dec. is world AIDS day. 1 dec. 2008 is special though – as it is the 20th anniversary or world AIDS day. the theme for this year’s world AIDS day is a follow up on last year’s theme which touch on leadership. Leadership …

live interviews by riz khan of al jazeera

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will be appearing separately live on aljazeera’s riz khan show next week. they will be talking on the current political situation in Malaysia and the implications of the global economic crisis. Najib will be appearing on 10pm on …

our MC was arrested

our MC, paula of masterwordsmith-unplugged blog was arrested at the anti-ISA candlelight vigil last night. went to the police station at 9.30pm. 6 of us organisers, several from the press (chinese press mostly and malaysiakini’s athi) and several attendees of the vigil – in total about 20 (including 2 priests) …

nov 15 vigil – change of venue

UPDATED ON 12/11/08, 12:50 PM – it’s back to the original venue of ESPLANADE. ——————————– it seems that on 14, 15 and 16 nov. there will be this international tennis tournament going on at the esplanade. anticipating a big crowd, and possibility of some roads leading to the esplanade to …