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Attack on Parliament: Today with punches, tomorrow with guns
More pics at theunspinnersThe NST reports more than 15 people arrested for trying to break into Parliament with anything-but-peaceful intent. A police officer was punched in the face in a scuffle where...
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Sime Darby gets new chairman
Sime Darby's new chairmanThere's life after Saujana, for sure. Former Johor Menteri Besar Ghani Othman is headed for Sime Darby, the massive transnational corporation, as its chairman. Overheard today...
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RM350 million, that's how much UMNO gotta spend to defeat the Red Bean Army...
With updates at the end of article Or that's what some experts are telling the UMNO big wigs. If the party wants to set up a department ala the DAP's mysterious Red Bean Army, they asy, it needs to...
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The Tourism Ministry is curious about the new theme park
The Eye draws 3.5 million visitors annuallyNew Tourism Minister Nazri Aziz hasn't made any public statement on the so-called Malaysia Truly Asia theme park they want to build near Parliament and the...
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Turf war in FGV
Isa Samad, finger-blocking Sabri While I share Annie's confidence that Sime Darby is in good hands, having a politician at the helm of a GLC can be a bane. Isa Samad, the Umno veteran, is fast becoming...
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Tabung Haji gets new Chairman?
Final update:Today's news Updated 30/6: Malaysian Insider thinks "Najib's new brain trust - Idris Jala, Omar Mustapha Ong et al - draws ire of the Mahathirists". Hehe. Maybe it is so, maybe not....
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Mutalib MD
We met at the First Malaysia-Asean Bloggers Forum in Kuala Lumpur in April 2012. Mutalib MD was then facing a lawsuit by a Cabinet Minister so everybody was looking forward to meet him. His news...
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Anwar Ibrahim's so involved, Jusof Kalla says
Nudged to grant Anwar that meeting?Jusuf Kalla and Anwar Ibrahim were buddies in high places once but today Pak Jusuf has certainly burned his bridges. The former Vice President of Indonesia, in his...
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Malaysia's Battersea: Saving London's famous white chimneys
Nuraina Samad has a posting on these white phallic structures, too. Click here. Original article: Read the article in which PM Najib Razak is mentioned, and my comments after: Full article h e r e As...
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A road trip to Queen Street
Melayu ridersOn this lovely Saturday morning, rain or shine, I shall have the pleasure of riding with Utusan Malaysia's Newsmen on Wheels in a kembara to Queen Street in Singapore, where it all began...
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KLIA2: Whose head will roll?
Updated: In his posting about "competent (and consistent) liars", Big Dog trains his barrel at Tony Pua and Nurul Izzah, the Pakatan duo who have angered many for calling MAHB top execs, including its...
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The holiest of months, the best of intentions
Eat this: Bujai's insincere Ramadan wishes and the force-feeding of Muslim detainees in Guantanamo. Why does Obama hate Islam so?"But in this month of Ramadan - while we fulfill the tenets of our...
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The debate for a new Simpang Rengam
Updated: The Scribe mentions the EO in his latest posting h e r e:"... I salute Ahmad Zahid for admitting that most of the criminals detained by police were former Emergency Ordinance (EO) detainees...
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Is the Vatican headed for a collision course with Malaysia on the Allah issue?
Updates:There's a Malay saying they should have taught the Vatican man so he might have understood us Muslim natives better: Terlajak perahu boleh diundur ...Or, perhaps, he meant to provoke; in which...
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Do the right thing, Nuncio
In my previous posting, I asked if Archbishop Joseph Marino had risked putting the Vatican and the Malaysian Government on a collision course with his remarks on the "Allah" issue". Yesterday, our...
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KJ echoes Anifah Aman's statement, slams Vatican man for "ïnterference"
The headline says KJ urges Wisma Putra to censure Vatican cnvoy. I say bravo to YB Khairy for coming out to make a strong statement at a time when other Malay-Muslim ministers and politicians are just...
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So, who's Felda Global Ventures boss from tomorrow?
SabriTan Sri Sabri Ahmad'scontract as the Group CEO of FGV ends officially at midnight tonight but for all intents and purposes, it came to an abrupt and premature end in January 2013, just months...
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Living with hardcore bakuteh fans in moderate Muslim Malaysia
Pakistani Christian Gets Life in Prison for Blasphemous Text Messages By Anugrah Kumar , Christian PostContributorJuly 15, 2013|6:22 am A court in Pakistan's Punjab province has sentenced a Christian...
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Vatican envoy does the right thing, apologizes to Malaysian Muslims for...
Updates: A Muslim in Sarawak, where Christians are allowed to use Bahasa Indonesia bibles which refer to god as "Allah", explains why the same "privilege" should not be extended to Semenanjung...
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Malaysia's Richest
Updated, after buka puasa:Forbes Malaysia's 50 Richest: Apa Lagi Cina Mahu? by HantulautOriginal piece:Here's Forbes' usual Malaysian suspects, give and take one or two new names. If you think they...
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