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Why I’m voting, why we need to fix the flaws in the system

Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid
By FAZLY M. FAUZY
Yes, the title is correct. I am observing the current build up to Undi 2008 as a citizen of Malaysia, a local KL’ite, born into a middle class Malay family and this year hopes to celebrate 28 years of my citizenship. This will be the first election […]

Malaysian ‘SexyBack’ spoof: Democracy Back

Video from the Women’s Candidacy Initiative (WCI).

The New York Times: Palm oil shock in Malaysia and the world

Photo by Justin Mott
Read The New York Times’ front page story on how increases in cooking oil is affecting people living in third world countries, from the roti canai vendor in KL to a family in a Mumbai slum.
The article also lightly touches on how the lucrative palm oil industry in Malaysia has negatively […]

The Davos Question: How can we make the world a better place?

The Davos Question: What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

Post your thoughts on theCICAK. Or better still

Politically incorrect: The Malaysian Uncyclopedia

From the Uncyclopedia: “This article has been declared of PUBLIC CONCERN by the Malaysian Department of Homeland Security. This is because there is no word for ‘parody’ in Malay.”

Young Malaysians, here are ten steps to become better citizens

Art by CHUAN ZUI
By KEITH LEONG
I am aware that I, like many of the writers for theCICAK have issued manifestos and carpe diem calls for the youth of Malaysia to be more socially aware and conscious. It is eternally in vogue for people of our age to write such articles, we will not be the […]

The hunt for subversives: Malaysian Government arrest Bersih, Hindraf activists and lawyers

Art by CHUAN ZUI
By CHUA SUE ANN
Last week the authorities had their hands full, arresting lawyers, Bersih, Hindraf and human rights activists and various other “inconveniences” to the government.
Dec. 9 was certainly a busy Sunday with a group of lawyers proceeding with their “People’s Freedom Walk” from the Sogo department store to the Malaysian Bar […]

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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