ARCHIVES 2012

CREEPING INSOLENCE: A recent tweet by Lim Guan Eng illustrates the persona of Pakatan leaders

Journalists with tough questions have instead been barred from state government functions in Penang. It has not occurred to DAP leaders that the propensity for political fights over the slightest slights must have troubled their voters, who grew up with BN's moderate politics.

Rashid Yusof, NST  

Malaysia's drive for IPO is being propped up by pre-election encouragement from the government and by cash-rich state funds, analysts believe.

by Julia Zappei, AFP

Malaysia is tipped to be Asia’s top IPO market for 2012 thanks to two of the world’s biggest company listings this year, but analysts say the momentum is likely to fizzle out.

Over the last three days, Islamists of the Ansar Dine rebel group which in April seized Mali’s north along with Tuareg separatists destroyed at least eight Timbuktu mausoleums and several tombs, centuries-old shrines reflecting the local Sufi version of Islam in what is known as the “City of 333 Saints”.

(Reuters) - TIMBUKTU: The al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters who have used pick-axes, shovels and hammers to shatter earthen tombs and shrines of local saints in Mali’s fabled desert city of Timbuktu say they are defending the purity of their faith against idol worship.

Or watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaPpfJhKUXY

Julian Assange speaks to the leader of the Malaysian opposition - Anwar Ibrahim. As a rising internal rival to the former Prime Minister Mahathir, Anwar was imprisoned for 5 years after being smeared with sex allegations. As a result of a popular campaign in 2004, his conviction was overturned and he was released from prison. In 2008, he was again targeted for sex crimes allegations, he won the case earlier this year. With Malaysian elections looming with Anwar tipped to win, he has now been charged with unauthorized assembly. If found convicted, he will be prevented from running. Assange talks to him about how he has survived and what he sees as the future of Asia and the West.

(FMT) - Najib's 'all seats are BNs' doesn't seem to apply to Sarawak, according to a component party leader.

Dr M is pissed of with Jibby. And the old man wants pink lips out of the driving seat.

Haris Ibrahim

Video shot at the demonstration by Bersih, which is Malay for “clean,” showed him gesturing to the crowd — leading the attorney general to charge that he had been encouraging demonstrators to breach a barricade and enter a square where public protests are banned.

Jeremy Grant, Washington Post

The crux of the matter is that the Local Plan was on display for public inspection and for objections from land owners and residents. PKNS did not make any objections to the field being designated as “recreational” and the plan was approved by the state assembly and gazetted in 2010. It cannot claim ignorance. It can only plead, if any, incompetency.

RTPJ2 became mired in controversy when documents referred to by the Selangor Town and Country Planning found the public field owned by PKNS was zoned as a recreational area, whilst the documents referred to by MBPJ indicated it was a commercial zone.

R. Nadeswaran, The Sun

Many of you were not in the scene back in 1997/1998 when Malaysia was hit by a financial crisis and Anwar Ibrahim made his move to oust Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. It was a classic case of the hunter becoming the hunted and how Dr Mahathir turned a losing hand into a winning hand. It may be time to revisit what happened 14-15 years ago considering that many of these players are now re-emerging as the power-brokers for the coming general election.

Raja Petra Kamarudin