theCICAK on American public radio!

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Kathy Corcoran, former San Jose Mercury News staff writer, produced a story about theCICAK for KQED, a San Francisco public radio station. It was aired on World Press Day, May 3 on Pacific Time, a weekly magazine that focuses on Asian issues in the United States and abroad. Corcoran spoke to Poh Si Teng, the magazine’s director and co-founder, and Jeff Ooi.

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Yeah, baby.

Comment published by Swifty on 3 May 2007.
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awesome awesome!

now i will forever relate khailee’s laughter to “malay skinheads.” ;D

Comment published by andrew on 3 May 2007.
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wow, thecicak on NPR. this is huge!!! malaysia has been in the news lately. the focus has mostly been on how the government is trying to compete with china and india for foreign investors, and that our economy has been stable among all the countries in south east asia… mostly business stuff.

at long last, a piece in the media on the absence of freedom of expression in malaysia. i’m so proud of thecicak team. keep up the good work.

btw, i looked up ‘malay skinheads’ on youtube - nothing came up wan. i suppose the video was removed…

Comment published by milkmaid on 3 May 2007.
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nice

Comment published by sringangel on 4 May 2007.
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A few things I’d like to point out:

1. That was brilliant. Congrats Poh Si.

2. You still won’t change my mind on the caning sentence no matter how bloody that ass gets whipped.

3. Referring to the Malay supremacy thing. Unless they go around wearing t-shirts with Hishamuddin waving the keris in a baju Melayu, then they’re not Malay supremacists. They’re just idiots who had no idea that Che Guevara was a communist who hated religion as a whole, including Islam, and insists on wearing his face across their chests.

If they really were Malay supremacists, they’d be wearing baju Melayu’s, holding gatherings in the middle of the night at Dataran Merdeka, shouting “Merdeka” 10 times with that “sieg heil” salute of theirs.

And they’d still be idiots; because the proclamation was at Dataran Pahlawan, in Melaka.

4. I congratulate you all on the interview and for finally getting someone to listen.

5. And Poh Si, just a quiet reminder…urm…not all of us are expatriates…lol!

Comment published by Aput on 4 May 2007.
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Poh Si:

Thanks for fighting the good fight. As long as anyone in the world is silenced, the ability to speak and hear the truth is compromised.

Comment published by Kerry Sipe on 4 May 2007.
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Hi Aput,
Thank Kathy Corcoran. She did a lot of reporting to produce this story.

Oh, I wouldn’t call myself an ex-pat. It sounds like I deserted Malaysia.
Yau!

Comment published by Poh Si on 4 May 2007.
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Wonderful. All we need now is for Berita Harian and New Straits Times to follow suit.

Comment published by anon on 4 May 2007.
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How intelligent is a Malaysian Minister?

Not too bright, read the story.

http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=197#comments

Comment published by Minus Zero on 5 May 2007.
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[…] San Francisco-based KQED Radio aired another story today about Malaysian bloggers facing government censorship. The KQED show Pacific Time, which is syndicated to two dozen radio stations in the United States and in Asia, featured theCICAK in May. […]

Comment published by American public radio: Malaysian bloggers threatened with censorship on 26 July 2007.
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Poh Si, you rock !

Comment published by Annette-TroisNyx* on 13 January 2008.
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