Malaysia started a no-Internet censorship pledge violation?

UPDATE
Gman: Does the MCMC realise that it is going back on its own Bill of Guarantees, that the Malaysian government would ensure no Internet censorship?
They can’t just ban a website just because it gives us news and views from the ‘other side’ more so since our mainstream media seems to be all one-sided propaganda.
(Yes, even [...]

Thai people should start consider government without Samak Sundaravej

Thai people should start consider
government without Samak Sundaravej
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has accused protesters in Bangkok of trying to foment another coup. “They want bloodshed in the country,” he told journalists.
In a day of stormy protests, supporters of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) invaded government buildings and a state-run television station.
Organisers of the [...]

Malaysiakini: Malaysia Today blocked! Order from MCMC

Malaysiakini: Malaysia Today blocked! Order from MCMC
Controversial online portal Malaysia Today had its access blocked by the country’s largest internet service provider (ISP) TMnet. 
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) chief operating officer Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi confirmed that the block was ordered by the commission. 
The domain name – http://www.malaysia-today.net – has been unaccessible to TMnet subscribers [...]

Pop politics at its best

Manjit Bhatia
Aug 25,08
from Malayisakini
From my hotel room window, China’s new national Olympics stadium is shrouded in a thick, gray mist. Visibility is approaching near hopelessness. Mr Magoo would’ve had no chance. Only it isn’t mist.
 
It’s smog. Pollution. The air outside, from which I had just escaped for the sanctuary of my hotel room, is thicker. [...]

Hazards of DNA profiling Laws

UPDATES
DNA evidence can go terribly wrong: lawyer in Malaysiakini by Fauwaz Abdul Aziz | Sep 3, 08
A lawyer who has successfully argued against the seemingly incontrovertible findings of DNA evidence in one court case said it is “unthinkable” for the government to treat such evidence as irrefutable and absolute.

M Puravelan (right), who represented G Sara Lily, [...]

The Blogger Behind the Obama Hit Job

By CLAIRE SUDDATH
Larry Martin owns Frontera Bar and Grill, a Tex-Mex restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. He imports mesquite charcoal from San Francisco and, he says, “serves peace love and American hegemony, one plate of tacos at a time” to Malaysian customers. In his spare time, he writes a semi-anonymous blog, An American Expat in Southeast [...]

Renaissance of DSAI, the Teflon man

Renaissance of DSAI, the Teflon man 
DSAI’s enemies ‘pressured’ the ‘Permatang Pau doctors’ to issue a ‘doctored political death certificate’, attempting to bury him alive (politically) although he was never politically died.
Bravo PP voters, congratulations for the successful resuscitation of our beloved hero, your prided proverbial son.
Now virtually resurrected, (politically) Teflon man DSAI is, Insya Allah, [...]

Angry Reaction to Samak’s ‘Suu Kyi is a Tool’ Remark

By SAW YAN NAING
Tuesday,August 26,2008
Burmese opposition politicians and some political observers and commentators have strongly rejected Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej’s description of  Aung San Suu Kyi as a “political tool” of the West.
Samak made the controversial comment to UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari when the two met in Bangkok as the Nigerian diplomat was returning [...]