January « 2010 « jelas.info

Happy Thaipusam!

Hopes for a meaningful holy day for all Hindus :)

How you can get

So, the latest:

We’ve gotten confirmations that the books are being held for ‘investigations’ to see if they may cause some breach of the peace :|

Yeah, I know :P

While this is going on, it is still perfectly legal to buy and sell the books. There are three ways you can currently help support the [...]

Kugan press conference, Woman shot 5 times, Gunasegaran

I attended a press conference with Kugan’s family and their lawyers this morning, and since there were so few press, I felt I should report a little on the proceedings.

By way of quick background, the family had some time ago successfully filed for a court order directing the police to return the samples taken from [...]

UM sit in, knife attack at USM

A quick word on the UM students who are/were staging a sit-in in the school’s administrative building, in protest of the newly introduced e-voting system.

Reminds me of an incident from my uni days (the guy in the picture was a housemate of mine, I’m proud to say).

There’s long been a need for cleaner [...]

Confiscated Books: Copies should still be available online and in KL

Hi all – some have kindly asked about where they might be able to pick up copies of the confiscated books.

They have not technically been banned yet, so they should be available online via Kinibooks, and in major bookstores in the Klang Valley (Popular, MPH, Borders, etc).

We may think about other avenues for distribution as [...]

My Deaths in Custody book confiscated by cops & Home Ministry!

Malaysiakini:

The authorities have confiscated two books published by Kinibooks, a subsidiary of Malaysiakini, in separate operations conducted in Malacca and Penang.

The books – ‘1FunnyMalaysia’ and ‘Where is Justice?’ – were seized from Popular Book in Melaka Shopping Centre, Malacca today, while an earlier operation was conducted at another branch of the bookstore in [...]

Zul & the WSJ – The Star drips with hypocritical venom

Our friends at The Star seem to be having quite a field day with Zul Nordin – yesterday it was “PKR tensions” or something, and today “Defiant Zul.”

Notwithstanding that a gag order has already been imposed on the Kulim MP pending a decision by PKR’s disciplinary board, it seems The Star is flailing desperately at [...]

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