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For the first time in 50 years, the annual government budget has been reduced into a “social occasion” with the Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi accompanied by his wife Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah “dropping by’ the Finance Ministry on the night of the eve of the Budget Day for a photo-op.
The 27-page […]

50 years ago, we were promised democracy. We were promised justice. We were promised equality. We were promised to be treated with human dignity. We were promised freedom.
In 1963, we became Malaysians and the notion of a Bangsa Malaysia was born. This was given form and substance by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad […]

This blog will adopt peer-moderation for comments. As word filters and other measures are not bombproof, on the odd occasion malicious comments can still slip through. You are invited to be the blog’s final line of defence against possible sabotage by malicious comments. If you spot a comment that you feel is inappropriate, please send […]

Forum:An Islamic State after 50 years?
Date: 25 July 2007 (Wed)
Time: 7.30pm
Venue:KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall
Speakers:
Ambiga Sreenevasan, Bar Council President;

Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, HAKAM President;
Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, PKR Secretary-General;

Lim Guan Eng, DAP Secretary-General;

Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader.

Enquiries, call 03-79578022 (Lau Weng San)

Nathaniel Tan, a 26 year old dedicated blogger, a Harvard University alumnus and an aide to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was arrested under the Section 8 of the Official Secrets Act (OSA) over allegations that he had documents linked to Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Johari Baharom’s alleged involvement in corruption.
Nathaniel was released after four […]

“Revitalise Penang” Dialogue Series (I)

Organised by DAP Kampong Kolam Branch

THEME: “Lets Revitalise Penang Economy”
The economy of Penang used to be the most robust and competitive in Malaysia with giants like Intel anchoring the high-technology manufacturing industry. However, today, it lies a distant 3rd in the country, after Selangor and Johor. The Pearl of […]

The first “Fight Rising Crime” public hearing of the Parliamentary Caucus on Human Rights and Good Governance will be held in Johor Baru on Sunday, 8th July 2007 at 2.30 p.m. at Tropical Inn, Jalan Gereja.
Please help to pass the word, by all means available, including blogs, SMS and word of mouth, to have […]

“To say that she is not under the jurisdiction of the Syariah Court - because she no longer professes Islam - is not appropriate… In other words, one cannot embrace or leave a religion according to one’s whims and fancies.” - Chief Justice Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim
“Illegal and unreasonable… to expect the appellant […]

English Forum: Civil Service Excellence: Quality vs Quantity

“The Government must hence take the painful but very important step of trimming the civil service sector into a leaner and more efficient “machine”. The increase in pay will be a waste of public funds, if the move is not accompanied by a corresponding increase in civil service […]

Thanks to Chengkhoon, the blog kink with IE6 & 7 has been resolved.
This is Chenkhoon’s solution:
“Line 38 of the css file (style.css) contains the following line:
“filter: Shadow(color:white, strength:0, direction:0);
“This is proprietary IE6 code. Removing the line will solve the problem.”
Many thanks Chengkhoon, on my part as on behalf of so many visitors who had faced […]

TJY emailed to say that this blog cannot be viewed from Internet Explorer 7. There have been other complaints which seem to zero down to the same cause, such as the following from Shirley of UK:
“Still unable to access your blog. Managed to access the main page but only part of it. […]

A regular poster emailed the following complaint:
It seems impossible to login into your blog (for posting of comments) by reason of technical difficulties ie the recurrent appearance of message : ‘Your session has expired.ERROR: Invalid Username - Username: xxx’”
I also had this problem at first when the temporary blogsite, English.limkitsiang.com was switched back to […]

Email from Sri Ram Krishnan: “Wishing you a happy CNY. Hope all is well during this period. I need a small favour, again. HPAIR 07 (the conference which you helped me publicize last year) has just been finalised and I have forwarded the publicity flyer with this email. I would appreciate if you […]

Dear Readers,
Very bad news.
The blog (blog.limkitsiang.com) has been down for three days.
We have just received the following message from our US host server:
“We regret to inform you that during the transfer to the new data centre your account was erased by the data centre before we had time to back it up, we apologies for […]