Corruption today: civil servants, Ipoh councillors, and all-seeing eyes

The Star:

Johor Anti-Corruption Agency director Nooraziah Abdul Manaf said of the (67 arrests last year), 36 arrested were from government departments, with the majority being support staff.

Thirty people were from the private sector and one was a politician.

omg. ONE?!

Yet another truly painful demonstration of the ikan bilis vs. ikan yu phenomenon >:(

In Johor, a) [...]

NST editorial used to promote PM’s brother’s restaurant (yes, the one he was officiating while Malaysia drowned)

Slow news day prompts Syed Nazri to write about Puteri Nasi Kandar in Penang – somewhat in bad taste, given that this was the Perth restaurant the PM was busy opening while Malaysians and their livelihoods were drowning in some of the worst floods here ever. My original comments here.

And I don’t know about using [...]

little points: majority of 5,587 in Batu Talam, Chinese mosques, and Abdullah vs Ong Ka Ting?

Malaysiakini (surprisingly, the Star didn’t have something up at time of writing) -

BN’s Abdul Aziz Kiram steamrolled past the 22-year-old Ng Chee Pang by amassing a whopping 5,857-vote majority. This is 3,186 votes more than the majority achieved in 2004 general election.

Abdul Aziz, 46, gained 6,276 votes while Ng garnered 419 votes. Ng also lost [...]

Wong Chun Wai on blogs: some positive, some negative, all all over the place

Speaking of Sunday columns. Mr. Wongmust be given credit for allowing for quite a bit of balance, and views from ‘both sides’ (Jeff, one of his subjects, has posted a comment here – note the ‘political temperature’ comment).

I can’t say he has the most cohesive writing style though. His article and points were a little [...]

Khairy’s challenge to the Opposition boycott: Constructive criticism?

I write in the hopes that this blog’s criticisms are taken as sincere and constructive. Thus, when politicians whom I tend to disagree with intensely in many regards offer criticisms against movements I’m sympathetic towards, I will try to take said criticisms in the same spirit.

Umno Youth Deputy Chief Khairy Jamaluddin has a lot of [...]

malam reformis dalam kenangan

Just home from Malam Reformis dalam Kenangan. A good event, with lots of heartwarming sharings from family members of those who have passed on recently. Highlights for me included touching speeches by Ooi Tze Min, who spoke of his man in the street (protesting) father, and trying to live up to that legacy, as well [...]

little points: politikus reveals all, busy weekend

politikus has links to the full suits against Jeff and Rocky – all the gory details in legalese!

Pretty busy weekend ahead, which puts a small dampner on my plans to blog about the differently abled, HIV patients and the FTA and Simpang Renggam. Sorry, will do my best to move fast!

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