and whoever says that the sultan (king) should be apolitical? as in the case of the perak sultan, and now the selangor sultan, they are not! they are siding umno… or as malaysia chronicles put it ‘pushing umno’s agenda‘ in the selangor sultan case. why ah, we wonder. as …
phew! what an interesting week it had been. it all began when PKR party president, wan azizah remarked that people should reject ketuanan melayu (malay supremacy). then (as expected) perkasa youth chief, arman, came out to attack her as a ‘political prostitute’. when her husband, anwar, side her (but of …
many articles here, all calling for the dissolution of the perak state assembly ———————————————- UPDATED 16 MAY Malaysiakini Muslim NGOs warn of potential unrest over impasse Humayun Kabir | May 13, 09 7:09pm A coalition of non-governmental organisations in Perak have warned that unrest could erupt if the ruler does …
yep, 9 all together (for now) being hauled up for insulting the sultan. first we heard of 6 of them being charged for insulting the sultan of peark, several days ago. then suddenly yesterday, we heard again of another 2, a couple from kuala terengganu were charged too for ‘unsavoury …
oops. i’m not suppose to blog on politics on a sunday but i can’t help it with the situation in perak. what really made me want to blog was when i heard on tv news that the illegal MB, zambry, said perak’s speaker, sivakumar’s move to suspend him and his …
i refer to the malaysian insider’s article ‘karpal refuses to apoligse, yet protest mounting’. DAP chairman Karpal Singh said today that he would not apologise to Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak and that he would proceed with his plan to take legal action against the Sultan for allowing the Barisan …