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Posts Tagged Malaysian Politics

Explosive Statutory Declaration

For the benefit of non-MalaysiaKini readers, here is the explosive statutory declaration (no pun intended) by Abdul Razak Baginda’s private investigator. Mindblowing read! Do support MalaysiaKini by subscribing now!
The following is the full 16-page statutory declaration sign by Abdul Razak Baginda’s private investigor P Balasubramaniam on July 1.

I, Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal … do solemly and [...]


Culture Matters

The mid-week sojourn to Thailand gave me an opportunity to finish “Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress“, a collection of essays by reknowned scholars (Francis Fukuyama, Nathan Glazer, David Landes etc) on the impact of culture on human societies. It was slow reading at the start, until I came across a fantastic paper by [...]


Malaysian Parliament Dissolved

The news is spreading fast through the blogosphere: the Malaysian Parliament has been dissolved ahead of the upcoming elections! Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi made the announcement today at a press conference at 12.30m pm (that’s 25 minutes ago).
Malaysiakini reported yesterday that Badawi had categorically denied the parliament would be dissolved today:
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad [...]


Suggestions for a Better Malaysia

An excellent list of suggestions for a better Malaysia, some that caught my eye:

Fix the minimum Salary to RM950
Implement an objective based evaluation and appraisal system for the government sector.
All the existing reservation for Malays will remain with a change that these reservations are valid for ONLY the Malays, who’s [...]


The Hindraf Gathering, part deux

“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” - John Gilmore
MalaysiaKini has up-ed the projected number of people who attended the gathering to 30,000.
Already we have two more Al-Jazeera reports up:
Hindraf Report:

Hindraft 11.35 am report:

The Use of Unjustified Police Force
Famous human rights lawyer and activist, Malik Imtiar Sarwarat, wrote on his blog:
From the [...]


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