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Dompok, listen up!

By TIMOTHY TEOH
Dangerous lah, Tan Sri Bernard Dompok! Don’t you know how to do your job? As DS Nazri has so ably pointed out in the Star, you are clueless when it comes to the role of the Parliamentary Select Committee of Integrity:
Nazri, who said the committee’s scope of duties was only to get feedback […]

Let’s examine expletives

By TIMOTHY TEOH
I sometimes find myself “filtering” conversations with others.
Take for instance something that happened to me recently - two months ago, I borrowed a book from the library to refer to for an assignment. After I was done with it I passed it to a groupmate, who was supposed to return it to the […]

Barang cetak rompak galore

Photo by CHUA SUE ANN
Like many things in Malaysia, it’s only illegal if they bother to catch you. This photograph was taken in

Terengganu relaxing its polygamy laws, what’s a woman to do

By POH SI TENG
Should a Muslim man be allowed to take on a second, third and fourth spouse, without the consent of his first wife?
If you agree and would like to do so, pack your bags, sell your house and drive your family SUV along with your first wife and five kids to Terengganu. Woopeedoo!
The […]

May 13, We need to understand and grow from the darkest day of Malaysian history

By TIMOTHY TEOH
In his introduction for The Malay Dilemma Revisited, M. Bakri Musa comments that every nation has its day of infamy permanently etched in its collective memory:

The French have July 14, 1789, Bastille Day; the Americans, July 1, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg. Both events had their share of gory and grizzly moments that […]

NewsWatch: Race has nothing to do with it? Dear Rehman Rashid, you don’t speak for me

theCICAK NewsWatch is a fortnightly critique of news articles and opinion-editorials published in local newspapers. NewsWatch writers will highlight “holes” and flaws in articles, in hopes to promote fairness, objectivity and transparency in Malaysian news media.
If there is a news article that you think deserves our attention, please send it to write4thecicak@gmail.com. Be sure […]

Happy Mother’s Day!

Photo illustration by CHUA SUE ANN
Show her some love.

Malaysian space odyssey, where’s the kiblat and our female astronaut?

By POH SI TENG
If you’re Muslim…
- you can choose to fast in space, or make up for it when you return to earth.
- you can consume non-halal food “only to the extent of restraining hunger.”
- and a male astronaut, you need to cover “the portion between the navel and the knees.”
The bullet points above are […]

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