Invisible Hands: Digging Out the True Motives of Anwar’s Arrest

Malaysiakini was kind enough to publish a piece I co-authored. Thanks guys! -

“When you eliminate the impossible, that which remains – no matter how implausible – must be true”

“In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king”

Since Saiful’s accusation, things have moved so hard and so fast that real, considered analysis of [...]

July 18th, 2008 | Category: TELITI | 29 comments

Malaysia 8th most competitive? Research reveals deceptive spin

It’s all over the papers – NST, The Star, Utusan.

We’re 8th most competitive in the world?

At least NST had the decency to include the caveat:

The Institute of Management Development, in its 2007 World Competitiveness Year Book, placed Malaysia in eighth place in terms of competitiveness for countries with populations of more than 20 million.

The [...]

January 29th, 2008 | Category: Economy, Integrity, TELITI | 10 comments

Gov’t Lies about Microsoft Survey on Blogs – Deceptive Repackaging to Mislead Rakyat

I love what some quick research can do :)

Malaysiakini reports the government quoting a Microsoft report as saying only 2% of Malaysian netizens read political blogs.

Then how come when I look up that same report, it says that 20% of Malaysian respondents listed political blogs as being of interest?

‘Accidentally’ lost a zero there, DS Lim? [...]

November 14th, 2007 | Category: Responsible Free Speech, TELITI | 8 comments

The Bare Facts of the PKFZ scandal – BILLIONS of public money robbed and cheated

Prodigy John Lee was commissioned to compile some info on this disgusting PKFZ scandal, and he did a stellar job.

What we have here is the BN conspiring to rob a bunch of poor fishermen first, and then try to make the rakyat tanggung the gargantuan cost of a completely worthless white elephant.

Kudos to Ronnie Liu, [...]

August 16th, 2007 | Category: Integrity, TELITI | 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

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

TELITI: Mahathir’s War Tribunal – Research on Participants Reveals Complete Lack of Credibility

Tun Dr. Mahathir wants to set up a war crimes tribunal? This looks like some of the least credible collection of “judges” ever.

Justice cannot come from the unjust, and TDM – the man who singlehandedly destroyed Malaysia’s judiciary – cannot possibly be expected to place justice above personal politics.

If Saddam was tried in a kangaroo [...]

February 1st, 2007 | Category: International, Judiciary, TELITI | 7 comments

TELITI: History of Bkt Gasing Development, the mysterious (non-existent?) Sanctuary Gasing Sdn Bhd, banana trees

The Malaysian had some very kind words and presented a small quest of sorts – to do some looking into what’s going on in Gasing Hill. There’s some more background regarding this sketchy planned development on a very risky slope at savebukitgasing, bangkit.net and at The Malaysian. Many residents fear that development of this environmentally [...]

November 25th, 2006 | Category: Government Negligence, Local Government, TELITI | 3 comments

TELITI: Naming Names – Seeing whose big money is behind the Kampung Berembang demolitions

Someone gave me a few leads re: who the Kampung Berembang developers are, and I decided to follow them up.

The internet tells us that regarding the development of the land where once the 60 houses of Kampung Berembang stood, home to normal decent Malaysians, these parties were involved: Perspektif Masa Sdn Bhd, Cahaya Kelang [...]

November 21st, 2006 | Category: Economy, Government Appropriation, Government Negligence, Government Policies, Integrity, Local Government, TELITI | 31 comments

Give Vui Kong a 2nd Chance Please

Help resist the clampdown on the truth!