Category: Bloggers Buzz

  Haris Ibrahim posted in People’s Parliament on Friday how ‘If you can’t kill the news, silence the messenger’. Haris wrote that his informant had the following to say about the recent inaccessibility of Malaysia Today website (of Raja Petra Kamarudin fame). His informant told him: “Had dinner with an Umno snitch last week. He… Continue reading ‘Playboy’ OK, political websites not OK

  Excerpts: “Swee-Hock Saw in his 2007 The Population of Malaysia [Publisher: Institute Of Southeast Asian Studies] expects the Malaysian population to reach a total of some 41 million people by 2035, with natural increase flagging first among the Malaysian Chinese, then among the Malaysian Indians, with the Malays following in behind. “He doesn’t expect… Continue reading On fertility and ethnicity in Malaysia

  Novelist Chuah Guat Eng   [The author in her essay reminisces on how “Malaysia after Independence in 1957 functions on a framework of racial division??? and how she has had to constantly define and redefine herself “against a backdrop of several dominant cultures, all of them familiar, yet alien???.]  “As a young man, my father… Continue reading Three ‘Rasa Sayang’ stories for Malaysia Day

Sept 13: Siapa kata DAP bukan untuk Melayu Muslim? Ahli Baru DAP Melayu berkata perjuangan DAP mirip perjuangan Islam Seperti yang dilaporkan di akhbar Harakah, pandangan terhadap parti DAP semakin berubah. Orang Melayu tidak perlu gementar atau rasa tidak selesa menyertai DAP lagi kerana DAP bukan parti berdasarkan kaum, malah merupakan parti yang mengangkat semangat… Continue reading Pak Sako: Hasutan propaganda dusta tentang DAP

  So what is it all about? Starting with the sentence “The internet is different???, the 17 declarations might not be hot news, but they tie together some of more innovative positions about journalism in the age of the Net. The authors believe that the Internet improves journalism if the media adapt their working methods… Continue reading The Internet Manifesto

  Sept 11: This is something I don’t understand. The brand Umno is already very much discredited. We know that. The PR people should welcome this misfortune. They should be elated and maybe celebrate by opening up some wine bottles (make sure you are not caught out lest you should face caning Islamic style) if… Continue reading Sakmongkol: It’s puzzling / Umno must win Bagan Pinang

  Nature works mysteriously. We have been plagued by series of by-elections due to the demise of people’s representatives both from Federal and States Legislative Assemblies.

  AUG 31 — I can’t say that I know Datuk Zaid Ibrahim very well. Our past encounters have been limited to a fleeting hello in front of the steps of my alma mater, the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 2006, another chat during a reception in honour of Datuk Ambiga… Continue reading Malays speaking without fear

22 August 2009 Rocky’s prognostication about a free press under 1Najib and 1Rosmah (Hah!) got a whacking from Haris of People’s Parliament who pointed to recent dampeners on the press as indicative of the 1NajMah Administration’s poor attitude towards the press in general. But Rocky’s point, I think, is mainly that he is a True… Continue reading Between a Rock and a free place