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abides.The Hindraf gathering was a success, judging by a MalaysiaKini report:
About 10,000 protesters demonstrated under the shadows of Kuala Lumpur’s iconic Twin Towers after their efforts to petition the British High Commission was thwarted by the police with tear gas and chemical-laced water cannon.
The protesters had attempted to gather outside the high commission early this [...]
To fellow Jains and Hindus, have a Joyous Diwali!
And may I say that it’s a most excellent time for UMNO to hold their Annual General Meeting. One can only expect that the (hopefully) coincidental timing with Diwali will benefit UMNO delegates in seeing the light (pun intended) and illuminate to them of their horrifyingly racist, [...]
Loaded up MalaysiaKini today to see the following headline on its front page:
Incredible! TheStar is not reporting anything yet online, but here is an excerpt from MalaysiaKini’s excellent reporting:
Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mohd Hishamudin Mohd Yunus in a landmark decision ruled that Abdul Malek’s arrest at the height of the reformasi demonstrations was unlawful [...]
Colin Charles beat me to the blog post but his writing mirrors the thoughts I have been having about the Angkasawan sham since it was announced some years ago. When the Angkasawan programme was first announced, I wrote and predicted in a different blog that the programme would be used as a political “feel-good” tool [...]
“Penang Indians have nothing“, so MalaysiaKini reports. They present the following statistics:
80,000 or 60 percent were wage earners in the lower income brackets.
Average monthly income was between RM500 and RM1, 000 per household.
Seven percent were living in hardcore poverty.
About 80 percent in the manufacturing industry, Penang’s biggest revenue earning sector, were low-level workers.
Involvement in the [...]
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