According to news on Yahoo, Global Voices Online the Internet was denied accessed in part of Myanmar during the wee hours of the morning in our time. As I was busy catching up with my friend who is the Philippines, the latest new flash probably around 4 or 5 am alerted me that Internet [...]
September 29, 2007
Categories: Blogging and Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Myanmar/Burma Bloggers, human rights . . Author: cherwith . Comments: 1 Comment
Guess what UMNO gonna do again?
Well I guess it isn’t something shocking for us to hear that they are yet again suing. Every time they don’t like the sound of things, they sue! Hmm….. they must be experts in the game of suing.
The great Umno Youth chief Hishammuddin Hussein proudly announced that legal action will [...]
September 29, 2007
Categories: Malaysia, Society . . Author: cherwith . Comments: 2 Comments
As I related in an earlier post, All-Blog or know as the National Alliance of Bloggers will be having a public forum on Blogs and Digital Democracy. Although it is a public forum, you will have to get an invitation from the organizers through emailing either Tony Yew or Jeff Ooi whose contacts are listed [...]
September 28, 2007
Categories: Blogging and Democracy, Event, Freedom of Expression, Latest Post on Malaysian Blogosphere . . Author: cherwith . Comments: Leave a Comment
Another update!Anyway my friend Scott wanted me to post this story ..instead let me just link him. It is about an expose interview. “The things these people say is just outrageous and just laughable. He truly denotes why we Malaysian should be really weary when we decided to vote for who in the coming [...]
September 27, 2007
Categories: Discrimination, Freedom of Expression, Justice, Malaysia, human rights . . Author: cherwith . Comments: 1 Comment
<”Malaysiakini”>today reported what our darling Nazri has to say;
“There is no crisis in the judiciary and neither is there any scandal involved, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz.”
I guess it must be really difficult to see any crisis when you are very much apart of it….Can’t he see or [...]
September 27, 2007
Categories: Freedom of Expression, Justice, Malaysia, Missing Persons, human rights . . Author: cherwith . Comments: 3 Comments
Sorry to inform so late but I just got the news from a friend through email. Anyway I hope whoever is from Penang manages to see this post, I’m currently not in Penang so for those of you who are do take the time to attend the meeting if you possibly can.
Time?8.45 am
Place: City Hall [...]
September 26, 2007
Categories: Freedom of Expression, Justice, Malaysia, Society, human rights . . Author: cherwith . Comments: 1 Comment
Seven bus-loads of lawyers together with other members of the public marched from the Palace of Justice to the PM’s Office to submit a memorandum. Their walk was deterred by many factors as reported by<”Malaysiakini”>.Earlier in the day they had been denied access to the march earlier by Putrajaya police chief.Supt Abdul Razak Abdul [...]
September 26, 2007
Categories: Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, Justice, Malaysia, Society . . Author: cherwith . Comments: 4 Comments
Jeff Ooi of All-Blogs has just brought to my notice that a forum on Blogs and Digital Democracy is scheduled to be held on the 3rd of October 2007! Yeah 2007! It’s barely a week away! More information will be updated soon, for now here is the information that is available.
Head of Global Voices Outreach(Rising [...]
September 24, 2007
Categories: Blogging and Democracy, Freedom of Expression, Malaysia, Malaysian Blogosphere, Society . . Author: cherwith . Comments: 1 Comment
An excerpt from <”Rockybru”>;
“Save the Judiciary march”
“If you are a Malaysian and you care about this country’s future, please join me …this Wednesday, 29th Sept, at 11 am in Putrajaya.A peaceful march will take place from the Palace of Justice to the PM Department to hand over a memorandum to stop the rot in [...]
September 23, 2007
Categories: Event, Freedom of Expression, Malaysia, Missing Persons, Society . . Author: cherwith . Comments: Leave a Comment
The news of Nurin missing became headlines in the mainstream newspapers, the picture of beautiful, young and innocence child was splattered in the newspapers, urging people to come forward to reveal any information they knew about this child. Nurin’s uncle even started a blog, alerting many bloggers of her disappearance thus even blogs started [...]
September 22, 2007
Categories: Freedom of Expression, Malaysia, Society, human rights . . Author: cherwith . Comments: 4 Comments