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Derhakakah?
Utusan Malaysia's front page todayI've been getting calls and alerts on Utusan Malaysia's front page today, as if I was part of the "Umno-controlled" daily. Many thought the editors were either brave...
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Suing Malaysiakini: The hypocrisy of the Bar Council and others
Updated 10/6/14:My view on politicians taking lawsuits against journalists is carried by www.therakyatpost.com, an up-and-coming Malaysian newsite, h e r e. The reporter did a good job at capturing...
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MAS needs to be rescued ... from Khazanah
BUJAI is not always right but he asks the right question in his latest posting: Why do we need 12 months to decide if MAS needs government help or not? We all know that everybody needs a little help...
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It's the Sultan who advises the MB, not the other way round, Khaled!
Only in Johor. Today's headlines in The Star is so telling insofar as who advises who in The Kingdom of Johor ... Khaled Nordin the first-term Johor Menteri Besar had said on June 6 that the Sultan of...
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The Cariocas and YTL, a Malay Reserve Land and the Malay resolve
Updated:YTL Power shows the way ...YTL drops out of Royal JV. The Energy Commission is to issue a statement with following Francis Yeoh´s decision to drop out from the race. Will his main partner the...
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Tony Pua´s mission impossible to try and make YTL Power look the hero
The real heroesWell, well, well, YB Tony Pua seems to have rediscovered his voice (Kudos to Francis Yeoh´s ...). Pua was so quiet when YTL and royal partner SIPP got the power project via negotiated...
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Read The Mole´s exclusive Dr M: Malay Rulers should not be involved in business deals No stopping this Statesman now. Dr Mahathir Mohamad is going after some of the people who live in our Royal...
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Journalism is not a crime (but journalists do commit crime)
As a journalist,, I do not hesistate in joining my fellow journos at the BBC in London and elsewhere in the world in their minute´s silence and tribute to the three Aljazeera journalists who were...
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Bungling NZ Minister says sorry
Updated: Malaysia to send wanted diplomatic aide back to NZ after McCully apology, read H E R EOriginal articleWhile some of us were busy and quick in blaming our own people for the alleged...
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Tak faham or buat2 tak faham?
Not a case of lost in translation. I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry after reading The Malaysian Insider's take on Zaini Hassan's latest Cuit Sikit column in Utusan Malaysia. I had read Zaini's...
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Why Dr Mahathir is still front-paging our newspapers
Read today's Page 1 of The Malay Mail, where I was Editor until 2011. A pleasant surprise, really, since the article Economic prescription from the doctor is proper reporting (based on a proper...
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KL soup kitchens aside ...
Lifeline for these kids, please ... It's good to know that Malaysians still care about KL's poor and homeless. That's the impression I get from the outcry against an official order to ban soup kitchens...
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The real reason Guan Eng cried ...
The soup kitchen issue has landed Lim Guan Eng in the soup at least as far as mymassa.blogspot.com is concerned. The blog has accused the Penang Chief Minister and DAP big boss of being so eager to...
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Stop being trashy, Umno SoPo blogs told
SoPo blogs beating the tabloids at their own game?A good advice from The Unspinners, probably the most influential pro-Umno social political blog (27 million hits and counting), I must say. It is true...
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Tit for Tat
Blogger A Voice is in favour of a Malaysian tit-for-tat on Singapore for the latter's move to impose ludicrous amount of money on foreign (read Malaysian) vehicles entering the republic via Johor. I am...
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Condemning Israeli attack on Gaza: Najib must take it further
With updates on 50 Malaysian doctors for Gaza ...It's good to listen to Najib Razak condemning the Zionist regime over their latest atrocities in Gaza and their audacity to defend the action as being...
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Save your MAS and Najib-bashing for another time, please
There's a time for everything. This is a time to be united for this nation and for its people and the leaders as we all mourn for the MH17's fallen and their loved ones. This is when we hold hands to...
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Why I won't fly with Singapore Airlines ever again
Singapore Airlines apologises for 'insensitive' social media posts following MH17 disaster after public backlash Singapore Airlines wrote on Facebook and Twitter that its planes do not fly across...
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Malaysia has lost her first woman doctor
Tan Sri Dr Salma binte Ismail, the first Malay woman doctor, passed away at 6.15pm Sunday 20 July 2014 of old age. She was 95. She entered the King Edward College of Medicine (subsequently known as the...
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Najib's quiet diplomacy
"...(Malaysia) achieved what pressure from far more powerful nations had failed to accomplish". Getting the job done. People who know Capt Nik know that he's not one to easily praise anyone or anything...
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