Category: Personal Wellness, Travel and Thoughts

  Malaysia’s Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar, was reported to have saidthat Internet media is no “alternative media” as more and more Malaysians were obtaining news and information from the Internet. He said this at after giving the keynote address at the Colloquium on Media Policy in Malaysia, organised by the Asian Institute for Developing Communication (Aidcom) […]

  Blogger kickdefella, who was arrested for seeking the public to post the Malaysian national flag upside-down, has had his bail extended to Nov 21. Kickdefella, or Syed Azidi Syed Abdul Aziz, was arrested on Sept 17 was freed three days later on police bail. He was called in by the Commercial Crimes Investigation Department (CCID) headquarters in Kuala Lumpur […]

Deputy Chief Minister, Alfred Jabu Numpang, of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, has criticised blogger, Joseph Tawie for a posting on the latter’s blog. Freelance writer and blogger Tawie accused Sarawak state leaders of suppressing allegations of sexual abuse of Penan women in his blog, The Broken Shield. A blog post urged the state authorities to probe the […]

Written decades and aeons ago, when I was in my teens, the Nut Meg Tree is a short story I wrote for the Commonwealth Story-Writing Competition. The brief was to write a short story involving an old man, a tree and a musical instrument. Of course, I ended up writing a horror story. I didn’t win… […]

My column for the Sun was out yesterday, on the allegations of sexual abuse against Penan women. As many Malaysians push for greater accountability of their leaders, we shouldn’t forget corporate accountability either. And by this, I’m not just talking about responsibility to the shareholders, but also to their employees, their creditors and all stakeholders, […]

Ten years ago, fresh from the Bar and newly thrown into the legal fraternity, I met Irene Fernandez. “I am the accused,” she introduced herself to us, chambering students, who were called to help in her case, to take notes on all that was said during her trial. Meeting Irene Fernandez would be one of […]

  Blogger “Sammy”, reported to be a 22 year old employee in a Kuala Lumpur advertising firm, was reported to have posted anti-Indian sentiments on her blog,Life is a Drama. The blogger posted her comments after she claimed her mobile phone was stolen by two alleged Indian youths when she was having lunch on Sept 23.   The Hindu […]

  Former Singaporean citizen and naturalized American, Gopalan Nair, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for insulting a high court judge on his blog. Newspaper reports that the court, in handing out the sentence, had stated that Gopalan had “scandalised…the judiciary and the administration of justice in Singapore” On his blog, Gopalan had allegedly insulted Justice Belinda […]