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Malaysian Bar Council demands Royal Commission investigate judicial scandal

Malaysian Bar Council President Ambiga Sreenevasan spoke on behalf of the council demanding that a Royal Commission investigate the judicial scandal allegedly involving Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim.
Photos and article by CHUA SUE ANN
More than 1,000 protesters, mostly lawyers and members of civil society, marched today in support of the Malaysian Bar Council’s […]

Possible corruption scandal involving our Chief Justice

theCICAK will soon publish a commentary on this video and why our generation needs to care. Watch this space.

Race increasingly an issue in Malaysia, says BBC. What do you think, foreign minister?

UPDATE: Full transcript by JONATHAN LIM below.

BBC Part 1:

Sarah Montague from BBC asks Foreign Minister Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar about the “rising resentment” from Indian and Chinese Malaysians about Malay rights and privileges.
She asked him these hardball questions:
1. Is it fair that it’s easier for Malays to get into universities compared to Chinese and […]

HEROES: They wrote it, now you vote it!

theCICAK editors have shortlisted 11 entries for our “50 Years, 50 Heroes: Young Malaysians You Need to Know” essay writing competition.
These entries have been sent to the judges.
Meanwhile, YOU get to choose who gets the People’s Choice Award (Most Outstanding Hero prize) worth RM500!

Voting is now closed.
Below are the shortlisted submissions:

CLEMENT CHAN ZHI LI’S […]

Is MPS serious about scrapping the dog hunt?

By NATASHA FERNZ
Last week, the Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) said they were scrapping their highly controversial dog hunting competition.
But if that’s so, why is it still being promoted on their website? If they can’t even pull it off their site, how can we be sure that they’re removing posters and fliers around town?

Transsexualism in Malaysia: Syariah Court annuls same-sex marriage

Art by CHUAN ZUI

By ANA A.
This month, the Syariah Court annulled Mohd Sufian Mohamad and Zaiton Aziz’s marriage. The court issued the couple a permanent divorce, despite Zaiton Aziz saying that she was in a physically and emotionally satisfying union.
The judge who presided over the case declared the same-sex marriage illegitimate because of Mohd Sufian’s […]

Who let the dog hunters out?

Art by CHUAN ZUI
The Selangor Municipal Council launched a dog hunting campaign, in which the first prize winner gets a whopping RM13,000.
Too nutz to be true?
Read DAVINA GOH’s article here

Selayang dog hunt: Council astray, SPCA erratic

Photo from The Star
By DAVINA GOH
The above shows gaudy bright lights bouncing off an oversized dark grey jacket. Its wearer bears a feeble grip on a pole, generously wrapped and decorated in yellow paper ribbon. Attached to the end of the pole is a rope looping around a cardboard cut-out of a dog. Despite not […]

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