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this cannot, that cannot, how to blog?

following the news of the 6 bloggers being charged for insulting the sultan, an eLawyer law conference 2009 themed ‘Blogging and Law’ was held on saturday. (or go to the lawyer’s site if NST news expire). from what the lawyers had said there, it seems to me that i would have …

MAFREL’s press release on march 13

PRESS RELEASE 13 March 2009 MAFREL WILL MONITOR BY-ELECTIONS IN BUKIT GANTANG, BUKIT SELAMBAU & BATANG AI Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (MAFREL) wishes to announce its activity to observe the by-elections at P.059 Bukit Gantang, Perak; N.25 Bukit Selambau, Kedah and N.29 Batang Ai, Sarawak which was announced …

after a year – how’s the CAT doing?

come, and hear for yourselves. come to the suaram forum ‘CAT ruling – change or the same?’ on this saturday, 14 march (english) and 14 march (mandarin). see poster for details (english poster). (NOTE: for the uninitiated, CAT stands for ‘competent, accountability and transparent’ – the motto of the penang govt.)

do we need the second penang bridge?

as part of our citizen/video journalism workshop, we had to do assignments. one of the assignment was to come out with an article on penang. i choose to write about the second penang bridge. please read about it in my citizen journalism blog, 'reflections'.  (updated: read from below instead) in the …

my citizen journalism blog

i had mentioned about completing the citizen/video journalism workshop organised by malaysiakini. it was a 2 months workshop on every alternate weeks of saturdays and sundays. learned a lot and made new friends. the first weekend classes were on script writing for a documentary conducted by malaysiakini’s maran. second weekend …

displays for trade shows and exhibition

Large corporate companies who are planning to exhibit at trade shows will find the Camelback Displays website very handy indeed because it supplies all sorts of materials for trade shows displays.  well, of course not only corporate companies but also government agencies, universities, schools, NGO., etc – all those who …

march 8 – 1 year after (part II)

UPDATED:  the videos from our team: lim guan eng’s speech others continuing from my previous post. the first speaker was PAS adun from permatang pasir by the name of hamdan. (sorry most speakers i did not get the full name or what their post. if you want detailed name/post of …

march 8 – 1 year after

last year, on this date – march 8 – malaysia had its 12th general election. the result – an unexpected shocking (but welcoming) result – the ruling coaltion, barisan nasional (BN) not only lost it’s 2/3 majority but lost 4 states too, i.e. kedah. penang, perak, selangor.  it had been …

march 8 – international women’s day

today, march 8 is international women’s day. i should have blog about this earlier but yesterday whole day and night was busy. also was thinking more of another march 8 significant event – the politcial tsunami in our country last year (1st anniversary for this year’s march 8). actually the …

samseng umno youth in action

i know many of you had seen this before but i have not put it up on my blog yet, so right now i’m doing it. gotta spread this, give it more coverage so that people will know the true colours of umno! btw did you guys notice the selangor …