Why I will walk this Sunday

It’s not because I really like rallies.

I find them too hot or too wet, hell to get to, and liable to get me arrested.

Been there, done that, wasn’t fun at all.

I’ve been reading a lot about the spectrum of responses towards Hindraf, and it’s been really engaging.

I’ve searched my soul, and I now know what [...]

November 24th, 2007 | Category: Civics, Ethnicity, Malaysian Politics | 88 comments

The evils of Wal-Mart – Coming to Malaysia?

I think only theSun carried this piece about Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Mohamed Shafie Apdal saying that they’re looking into bringing in Metro AG and (gasp!) Wal-Mart!

I heard so much bad stuff about Wal-Mart when I was in the States.

Lazy bum that I am, behold Wikipedia! Highlights:

With close to two million employees [...]

June 7th, 2007 | Category: Economy, Government Negligence, Government Policies, International, Livelihood | 6 comments

TELITI: Taiping-Banting Highway – Talam, Europlus, IJM (Pt 1)

I was asked by my boss to do a little research into the company that was awarded the contract to build the Taiping-Banting Highway.

Despite previous attempts, I’m no expert in doing corporate research, nor am I an industry insider. So part of the reason I’m posting this is to see whether people have got more [...]

April 5th, 2007 | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economy, Government Appropriation, Integrity, TELITI | Leave a comment

Toll Hike Protest – Summit, USJ, March 18th: The Ballad of Proton Yellow & Round Orange

Good news: Malaysiakini video speaks a 1000 words! Check it out, it’s far better than my big ass collection of pictures.

So I’ll just add tidbits.

Demo prob started around 4.15pm; then the police started the usual threats and then started spamming their sirens to drown out the speakers. New strategy, apparently, where all the squad cars [...]

March 19th, 2007 | Category: Civics, Economy, Law Enforcement, Responsible Free Speech, eyewitness | 8 comments

Khaild Ibrahim on the EPF aquisition of RHB

I’m no expert on acquisition, but TS Khalid, Treasurer for PKR, does seem to raise some cogent and distressing points.

I happen to have an English version of his op-ed, enclosed below.

March 12th, 2007 | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economy, Government Appropriation, Government Policies | 2 comments

Tian’s side of the story, references to Acmar International

Internet’s been down all day, and weary on many counts right now, but if you want to read something beyond government propoganda, you can hear Tian’s side of the story first hand through the podcast located here and  here.

If anyone’s interested, here’s the link to some research into the Kg. Berembang developers that was referenced [...]

March 10th, 2007 | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Law Enforcement, little points | 2 comments

Kg Berembang pics from 5th March & updates for 7th March

Finally managed to put up more than one thousand pictures that Lainie did a super job of taking on Monday at Kg. Berembang. Hopefully, some ‘commentary’ will be added to them soon.

Just keep a lookout for RELA weapons, fat SB officers video recording everything, red cloth bands, sketchy people hanging around, Acmar International t-shirts, and [...]

March 7th, 2007 | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Law Enforcement, little points | 8 comments

Happy Hokkien Day! (+ bad cops and good play)

I’ll confess that I didn’t know anything about this until last night (fireworks, dad and aunt) and today (KTemoc), but it’s a pretty darn interesting story (the corny rainbow is over a sugar cane field, apparently :)

Also just wanted to let the world know that this Hokkien lang was still alive [...]

February 26th, 2007 | Category: Civics, Government Negligence, Impunity, Law Enforcement | 4 comments

little points: More intimidation against PKR members; Simpang Renggam – Suhakam, drugs; Nazri: government = unthinking voyeur?

PKR’s Dep Sec-Gen Dr. Xavier Jeyakumar had white paint splashed across his house by unknown assailants in the dead of Monday night. Dr. Jeyakumar staunchly believes the attack is politically motivated. This infruriating act of cowards will not deter those who fight for what is right!

On a more positive note, Tian Chua writes (with pics [...]

February 13th, 2007 | Category: Civics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Detention without Trial, Government Appropriation, Government Negligence, Government Policies, Integrity, Malaysian Politics | Leave a comment

MIC Youth & Simpang Renggam – do they have the clout? ; Mahathir – Kg Medan War Criminal?

Re: Tun Mahathir – see the Police Watch statement questioning his credibility to lead a War Crimes Commission. They quoted an IHT article which young fellas like me found new and disturbing.

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The Star carries MIC Youth chief SA Vigneswaran’s plea to the police to stop using the Emergency Ordinance to send Indian’s to Simpang Renggam. [...]

February 10th, 2007 | Category: Detention without Trial, Ethnicity, Government Policies, History, Impunity, Law Enforcement, Laws, Malaysian Politics | One comment

TELITI: Toll Hikes ’07 – Who profits the most off the rakyat’s hardship? (Pt 1: Preliminary findings on owners of LITRAK)

Long overdue, and in light of recent suffering (see Malaysiakin videos here and here) I did some basic checking on the companies that own the highways which got hit with toll hikes. I’ll start with Litrak, the company that owns the LDP concession.

These are only very basic preliminary findings – and may or may not [...]

February 5th, 2007 | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economy, Government Appropriation, Integrity, TELITI | One comment

MPS heartless, cruel, and incompetent towards differently abled

I don’t believe differently abled trader Murugan Rajoo kena again >:( After the Selayang Municipal Council promised they would help him get his licence, I assume the usual ‘delays’ prevented this. He then went back to his business, but got picked up by MPS officers for illegal trading.

So how? Is Mr. Murugan and his four [...]

February 2nd, 2007 | Category: Civics, Law Enforcement | Leave a comment
 
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