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An insider on the outside: Reflections on Ahmad Mustapha Hassan’s The Unmaking of Malaysia

By KEITH LEONG
The last couple of years have seen an explosion of autobiographical writing in Malaysia. Everyone, from former Communist leaders to presidents of lawn-bowling associations seems to be writing their memoirs these days.
I think this is a wonderful development because, as I have said before, Malaysians need to share their stories with the […]

Osama bin Laden speaks Hokkien

Literal English Translation:
I am Osama lah.
The U.S. really wants to bomb me, but can’t bomb me. They dropped so many bombs in caves in the Ah-bu-han (Afghan) mountains.
But can’t bomb me. They can’t find me ah. Haha.
They really can’t find me. Because

Would you like to attend theCICAK Heroes Competition Ceremony?

It’s time.
The judges have decided. And you have voted.
We now have the results for our second annual writing competition!
So who is the young Malaysian hero? And who will win RM5,000 worth of cash prizes? Stay tuned.
theCICAK is holding a prize-giving ceremony for the winners of Young Malaysians You Need to Know 2007 this Saturday […]

Bersih rally a farce, its organizers are hypocrites

Photo by CHUA SUE ANN
By VINCENT LAU
Let’s not kid ourselves, OK? The Bersih rally - peaceful or not, was not about a call for real democracy or handing over a memorandum to the king. A rally could have been held in a stadium where like-minded people could have gone and stayed out of everybody else’s […]

Bersih rally: UMNO representatives say there’s no need for political reform in Malaysia

EDITOR’S NOTE:
Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz said the use of water cannons and tear gas at the Bersih rally is not considered a use of force.
Khairy Jamaluddin, deputy UMNO Youth leader, said Bersih protesters do not represent the political consciousness of the Malaysian public.
Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, human rights lawyer, said the Official Secrets Act and the […]

Bersih protester: Give me life or give me death, but not tear gas

Photo by CHUA SUE ANN
By RASHAAD ALI
This is not some second-hand story. This is an account from the frontline.
This is a frame by frame recollection of the Bersih rally in Masjid Jamek on 10 Nov. and how pandemonium descended into the city centre that afternoon, where my entire view of the present government […]

Zainuddin Maidin makes a fool of himself in interview about the Bersih protest

By RACHEL LEOW
What follows is a transcript of the telephone interview that Malaysia’s Minister of Information Zainuddin Maidin (ZAM) gave Al-Jazeera yesterday, moments after the Bersih memo was delivered to the Royal Palace at the close of the biggest anti-government protest in Malaysia in ten years.
ZAM: ….I commend your journalists trying to project, to exaggerate […]

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