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general election and the common good

GENERAL ELECTIONS & THE COMMON GOOD the following is CnP, an interview with abdul malek  husin, chairman of MAFREL (picture), in the catholic asian news (CANews), february 2008 issue. note: for other highlights of the CANews, which include 2 articles on the common good, click here. ———————————————————– What are the …

monitoring the election (2)

UPDATED:  just notice, after posting this, that in the star paper, a writer had written about the different electoral system. click here (the star) to read or at beritamalaysia. ———————–ORIGINAL POST this is a continuation of my post ‘monitoring the election‘. please read that post first (if you haven’t yet) …

monitoring the election

on 20 jan, i attended a workshop organised by MAFREL. as you can see from the file cover picture here, the name of the workshop. translated to english, it is ‘workshop on monitoring works for the 12th general election, northern region’. (or simply ‘election watch…’ instead of ‘monitoring works’) it …

land of political absurdity

found this great piece from RPK’s blog post ‘malays, the enemy of islam‘, which i would like to share, if you have not come across it yet. i want it to be up on my blog anyway. it is not by him but sent to him by someone. it was …

fuel hike and subsidy

several bloggers had blogged on the fuel subsidy. as i read what they wrote, i remember some years ago when petrol price was increased, the gomen did mentioned that the RM4.4 bil. savings from the hike would be used for public transport. i didn’t see anyone mentioned that until i …

huh? why didn’t the PM do anything?

ok ok i heard you "because he was sleeping!". 🙂 this is about the lingam tape. malaysiakini (from beritamalaysia) has the scoop about a businessman by the name of loh mui fah (pic left, from malaysiakini) disclosing that it was his son (who is now not in malaysia) who recorded …

will opposition capture penang?

CnP direct from malaysiakini (including charts of course)my comments later – at some other posts.———————————————————- Opposition plans one-on-ones for PenangAthi Veeranggan Jan 9, 08 4:23pm Opposition parties DAP and PKR today presented a united front in announcing their battle plan to wrest Penang from Barisan Nasional in the coming general …

sikh in m’sia also use ‘allah’…

… and sikh all over the world had been using it for centuries! malaysiakini has the news. highlight my own. refer my earlier post (with pic of the latest herald) first for context, if you haven’t yet. ——————————————— ‘Allah’: What about us? ask SikhsFauwaz Abdul Aziz Jan 4, 08 1:55pm …