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Mahathir right that BN and Umno incapable of reform – why BN 2/3 majority must be slashed

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is right when he said yesterday that the Barisan Nasional (BN) and Umno are incapable of reforming themselves without pressures from the electorate.
Mahathir warned that if the voters back the Barisan Nasional government once again in the coming polls, it would be an endorsement for a coalition [...]

Posted in Election, UMNO | 97 Comments »

3-hr Cabinet meeting on general election – a premiership quickly losing ability to differentiate between right and wrong

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP MP for Ipoh Timur Lim Kit Siang at the launching of the DAP Pasir Pinji Election Operation Centre in Ipoh on Thursday, 31st January 2008 at 1 pm:

3-hr Cabinet meeting yesterday on next general election the latest example of gross abuse of power, lack of integrity and rapid [...]

Posted in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Election | 23 Comments »

Dr. Basmullah in Kajang Prison – Karpal takes up case pro bono publico

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

DAP National Chairman Karpal Singh will take up the case of Dr. Basmullah Yusom, 44, the first doctor to be jailed under a technicality under the Private Health Facilities and Services Act (PHFSA) 1998 as pro bono publico to get him released from Kajang Prison.
As reported by New Straits Times on 19th November 2008, Dr. [...]

Posted in Health, Judiciary | 33 Comments »

Evolving from ‘bullshit to truth’

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Dr. Azly Rahman
Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for [...]

Posted in Azly Rahman, Election | 24 Comments »

Armed robbery – just happened to me

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Letters
(received 10.23 am)
by NKK
I just faced up to four Indian armed robbers this 3am morning in Alam Damai Cheras, KL
This is a true story about my lifetime first-hand experience with an armed robbery on 30 Jan 2008. I was eating and reading a late-night newspapers in a “mamak” (Indian Muslim) restaurant at Alam Damai [...]

Posted in Crime | 156 Comments »

Dr.Basmullah paying RM1,333 for every day in jail

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Together with DAP MP for Ipoh Barat, M. Kulasegaran, I visited the Kajang Prison and the authorities have confirmed that Dr. Basmullah Yusom is serving three-month jail term for failing to pay RM120,000 fine for operating a clinic without registering it under the Private Health Facilities and Services Act (PHFSA) 1998.
Every day of jail [...]

Posted in Crime, Health | 27 Comments »

Keng Yaik wrestling with the truth and his dubious 36-year political legacy?

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I received an email from a political observer who noted that Datuk Seri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, the retiring Minister for Energy, Water and Communications appeared to be wrestling with the truth and his dubious 36-year political legacy.
This is the email that I received referring to Keng Yaik:
“With his political career coming to [...]

Posted in DAP, Politics | 31 Comments »

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