The Malaysian 2011 budget is usually a good indicator of whether there’ll be a general election the coming year. A general election budget will be full of “goodies” such as income tax rebates, price controls on essentials and generous projects for the poor. Otherwise, it would be a budget that’s meant to keep the country coasting along. The 2011 ( Read more... )

So, a few weeks ago, a DAP MP walked into a mosque to present a cheque for Raya, which is coming soon. She says that she had been invited by the mosque committee to enter the prayer hall and to give a speech. Obliging them on both counts, she then spoke to them about the state government’s (Selangor’s) education programme. Utusan and quite a few BN ( Read more... )

There were two reasons why I voted for the opposition in the last General Elections.

1. Pakatan Rakyat promised a FOI act.
They made a promise in 2008 that if they were elected, one of the first things they would seek to do is to create a Freedom of Information Act. This was one of the reasons why I voted them in; because they promised me that they ( Read more... )

( Naoko is verbose again. )

There are times when I wish I can listen to the recording of what politicians, especially the BN, say. As a PR graduate, it shames me when I see public figures making a fool of themselves. Especially if they’ve hired a global Public Relations company. I suppose that they didn’t want to go for the grooming classes, believing them irrelevant.

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Police arrest eight over Metro Tabernacle Church attack

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Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.

Cheap mileage is all they care about. It would explain the reason behind my country’s economic ruin and our massive brain drain (heck, even I’m looking to leave this country to work overseas, and I love this place!). The politicians in this country, the so-called leaders are only concerned about filling their pockets.

After all, if Islam is the ( Read more... )

You know, I really, really shouldn’t be too surprised by the drivel that comes out of Utusan Malaysia, but this. This is just…

*shakes head*

Here’s the original Malay article. You can find parts of the article translated into English here.

Malay article under the cut:

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Compare this (from the Star Online) to the one below:
S’gor rejects ‘racist, indoctrinating’ BTN

The Selangor government today announced that its civil servants, students in state-owned higher learning institutions and employees in state subsidiaries will be barred from attending nation-building programmes carried out by Biro Tatanegara.

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Silence, they say, is deafening. Read and judge for yourself:

‘Charge those who threatened Rodziah’

The police have been urged to take action against the individual who threatened to rape Batu Tiga state representative Rodziah Ismail, during the chaotic dialogue between the Selangor government and Section 23 Shah Alam residents last Saturday.

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