Minimising the risks in blogging

Putik Lada By FOONG CHENG LEONG from:The Star BLOGGING has become the new way of life of Malaysians. It is without doubt a new form of media where a large number of the public refer to these days in addition to the mainstream media.

Dinosaur Shafie: Blogs not doing any good

KUALA LUMPUR: Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal has hit out at blogs, saying they made the recent demonstrations worse. He also described the culture of believing everything one read in blogs to be the truth as unhealthy and what made it worse was that the inaccurate information was passed on [...]

Of the new ‘monkeys’ on the blog

Of the new ‘monkeys’ on the blog Extracts from Malaysiakini letter by Dr Hsu Dar Ren | Jun 2, 08 It was not too long ago that someone important labeled bloggers as monkeys! Bloggers were labeled as ‘irresponsible’ and accused of ‘lie-spreading’ never mind that the number one lie-spreader award should go to the mainstream [...]

People & Revolution (in Burmese)

People & Revolution Posted by Khin Ma Ma Myo  in her blog on Saturday, April 5, 2008   လူထုႏွင့္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး စနစ္တခုမွစနစ္တခုသို႔ေျပာင္းလဲသည့္ မည္သည့္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး၌မဆို အခရာသည္ လူထုသာပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ လူထုႏွင့္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးသည္ တသားတည္းရွိေနရမည္ျဖစ္ျပီး၊ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားက်င့္သံုးရမည့္ အေရးၾကီးဆံုးအခ်က္မွာ လူထု၏ လိုအပ္ခ်က္၊ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ႏွင့္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအရွိန္တို႔ ဟန္ခ်က္ညီမွဳရွိေစရန္ ေဆာင္ရြက္တတ္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ တခါက ႏိုင္ငံေရးႏွင့္ ဒႆနိကေဗဒ ပညာရွင္ၾကီးျဖစ္သူ ကြန္ျဖဴးရွပ္အား ေအာင္ျမင္ေသာစစ္ပြဲတခုတြင္ လိုအပ္သည့္အေျခအေနမ်ားကားအဘယ္နည္းဟု ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ၾကရာတြင္ လူထုေထာက္ခံမွဳ၊ လက္နက္ခဲယမ္းႏွင့္ စားနပ္ရိကၡာ ဟူ၍ ျပန္လည္ေျဖၾကားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ထို (၃) မ်ိဳးထဲမွ တခုအားဖယ္ရွားခိုင္းရာ လက္နက္ဟုဆို၍၊ ေနာက္တခုအားထပ္မံဖယ္ရွားခိုင္းရာ စားနပ္ရိကၡာ ဟုဆိုခဲ့ေၾကာင္း [...]

Why docs should keep dispensing medicine

Why docs should keep dispensing medicine Comment by V.K. CHIN PHARMACISTS are making another attempt to get the Health Ministry to stop doctors from dispensing, in other words selling medication to patients. They want to do the job as its members are better trained to do this. The Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society has been trying to [...]

Living in denial

 Living in denial COMMENT in Star Online By MARINA MAHATHIR Denial is a dangerous trait to have because it blinds us to problems we need to confront in order to solve them ALL the years I spent working on the AIDS issue, one of the biggest problems we faced in many countries including our own [...]

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy by speakofthemind Posted by DYMM Raja Petra    Hypocrisy and hypocrites are everywhere This is the world we are living in? Where all the good people gone? What is said, is not meant, and what is meant is not done Smile for the sake of smiling, shake hands for the sake of shaking them Nothing comes [...]

Health minister making doctors ill

  Health minister making doctors ill Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah in Malaysiakini | Apr 2, 08 4:15pm I am a doctor practicing in a clinic in the outskirts. I was totally taken aback when I read the media reports wherein the DG of Health was reported to have said that doctors will eventually be relieved from [...]

CHINA OLYMPICS

CHINA OLYMPICS Read all in Malaysiakini, Dean Johns, “The Irish Conspiracy” The Chinese authorities haven’t yet realised in their enthusiasm to show it off, that the so-called ‘bird’s nest’ design of the main O’Lympic stadium looks more like a bundle – of people, of freedoms, of whatever you like – brutally bound with tapes of [...]

Let us honor our heroine Daw Suu by voting NO in referendum

Let us honor our heroine Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to be eligible in the coming election by voting NO in referendum Modified and edited the original letter, “Let us be like the orchestra respecting the conductor “, by Antares  in the Malaysiakini . I have edited and adapted to the Myanmar context from the [...]

The value of trust

The value of trust Excerpts from the WINNING WAYS by PUAN SRI T.D. AMPIKAIPAKAN It is something that has to be earned, yet is not difficult to attain.  “When people honour each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what [...]

Diversity, not race, our strength

  Diversity, not race, our strength Comment by MARINA MAHATHIR in the Star online I saw a report in a Chinese newspaper on how the newly appointed MB (Chief Minister) of Perak had stunned a Chinese crowd in Ipoh by speaking to them in Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Tamil, English and Malay. It may well have been [...]

Push now for the real civilian democratic government for Myanmar

  Push now for the real civilian democratic government for Myanmar Modified and edited the original letter in Malaysiakini written by Yogeswaran Subramaniam. I have edited and adapted to the Myanmar context from the original article. I hope that Yogeswaran Subramaniam and Malaysiakini could understand and forgive us for this. They should even be proud that [...]

Life beyond Referendum

Life beyond Referendum _ by Thuria Tayza (He sent this e-mail to me) The referendum is coming. Regardless of political opposition’s denunciation of it as a sham, a sham referendum for a pro-military constitution drafted by a convention of much compliant delegates hand-picked by the military; and despite United Nations’ request to the junta to formulate [...]