Author: danyogafit

GVA: Blogging Code Of Ethics?

After much antagonism over blogs in Malaysia, the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar, suggested recently that bloggers form their own ethics code to ensure accountability and fairness in their writings. Syed Hamid, who opened the Bloggers Buff 2008 Conference, emphasized the importance of this because most bloggers do not have a journalism background. The Home Minister, acknowledging that […]

The Sun: Workers’ long wait for justice

  The courts and the judiciary have come under scrutiny recently. Allegations of corruption and political inculcation in boot camps have taken up many column inches in both the print and online media. Another ill plaguing the courts, undue delay in resolving cases, has also been highlighted through Irene Fernandez’s decade-long “false news” case. Industrial courts, running […]

GV: Reforming the Malaysian judicial services

[post updated with Spanish Translation]   The Malaysian judiciary has long been criticised of corruption, and also for being less-than expeditious in its process. Earlier this year, de facto Law Minister, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, promised to bring changes to Malaysia’s legal system, beginning with the judiciary. While he was in office, Zaid set up a committee to […]

GV: Media Council- Double handcuffs or media freedom?

[post updated with link to Spanish version] This is my first post for Global Voices, so yay! Amidst a number of recent journalistic blunders, Malaysia’s Home Minister, Syed Hamid Albar, announced that the government has full intention of establishing a national media policy, together with a regulatory body over Malaysian media. Syed Hamid said that […]

The Malay Mail: Appeal delayed again

The follow-up to yesterday’s piece, written [mainly by] with Sheila Rahman. “Impossible to understand” is how most dictionaries define “incomprehensible” – the word Irene Fernandez’s counsel M. Puravalen used yesterday to describe portions of the notes of evidence relating to her “false news” case. Click here and here, or buy the paper. RM1.00 only lah! […]