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Have you notified police of your run?

January 26, 2012

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My most recent column, a bit political, on fitness, the Peaceful Assembly Act and public policy.

Being Chindian

June 23, 2011

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Something on Malaysiakini on being of mixed parentage.

Najib announces KPIs, lead ministers – Malaysiakini

July 27, 2009

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He named Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin as the lead minister for widening access to quality and affordable education, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein for crime prevention, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Aziz for fighting corruption. Women, Family and Community Development Minister Shahrizat Jalil for raising the living standard of the low-income people,… [Read more…]

Nizar is only answerable to state assembly – High Court judge

May 19, 2009

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via themalaysianinsider.com Interesting. And at the same time, PM Najib has deferred talks with Pakatan Rakyat on the ruling of Perak. I wonder what the public does not know… Posted via web from Potted Plot

GV: Humans as Commodities

May 3, 2009

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Finally, I wrote something for Global Voices in 2009! In early 2009, Malaysia had the dubious privilege of being investigated by the US senate for the trafficking of humans. News reports stated that the migrants involved were mostly from Myanmar, but other foreigners were also allegedly taken by the government officials to the Malaysian-Thai border, where they… [Read more…]

Utusan and defamation … again & again

February 24, 2009

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Malaysiakini reports that Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng, has instructed his lawyers to file a defamation suit against Malay language daily, Utusan Malaysia, for carrying the untrue report. This is in relation to Utusan’s report that Penang has established an inter-faith council last year. He told reporters in Parliament, These are lies…we have no such council… And if… [Read more…]

It’s not just in Malaysia…

February 3, 2009

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The Press Gazette reported that four peers (in Malaysia, senators in the upper house), including two former ministers, were prepared to help undercover reporters, posing as lobbyists, change laws in exchange for cash. Complaints are expected to be made to both the police and the House of Lords authorities following the Sunday Times story, which reported two Labour peers as being prepared to accept fees of up to £120,000 to amend laws.

Wow, another Utusan / Defamation case

December 19, 2008

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But this time, it’s not a new / pending case. According to Malaysiakini, the KL High Court recently postponed the delivery of judgment in the defamation suit filed by PAS information chief, Mahfuz Omar, against Malay daily Utusan Malaysia. The suit was filed in Dec 2001 over an article published in Utusan on March of… [Read more…]

No judicial review allowed for Lingam & co

December 16, 2008

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Last week, it was reported that the KL High Court ruled last week that the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s findings into the Lingam clip cannot be reviewed. Justice Abdul Kadir Musa disallowed the application by prominent lawyer VK Lingam and four others with cost. The applicants were Lawyer VK Lingam Businessman Vincent Tan BN and… [Read more…]

Razak Baginda & the public’s loss of confidence

November 24, 2008

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A few lawyer friends and I had lunch on Friday. Personally, I had stopped bothering about the whole Razak Baginda malarkey. I mean, honestly, he says he’s innocent. He also says Najib and Rosmah are innocent. So who’s guilty? If he knows he’s innocent and Najib and Rosmah are innocent, does he know who’s guilty?… [Read more…]

Blogging Competition for legal eagles

November 23, 2008

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elawyer Malaysia is having a special blogging competition. I would love to participate, but honestly, I have no time. So, if you’re interested: eLawyer, as your local legal community portal, would like to hear your views and concerns regarding some of the issues currently affecting the legal community and the country, as a whole. We would… [Read more…]

Remembering Sheena

November 22, 2008

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Remembering Sheena is a campaign to protect animals, especially the abused and the strays in Malaysia. It began years ago when Sheena, an alsation, was starved to death by her owner. Driven by outrage, a group of Malaysians went out to highlight how woefully in need of updating Malaysian animal rights laws are. Now, Remembering… [Read more…]

Corruption in the judiciary?

November 19, 2008

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Apparently, DAP Chairman Karpal Singh has an audio recording of what Chief Justice Tan Sri Zaki Azmi said in Kuching. According to the New Straits Times (NST) article on Nov 8, entitled ‘Stop it now, corrupt court staff warned’, Zaki said, “It took me six months to be nice, to bribe each and every individual to get… [Read more…]

GV: Reforming The Malaysian Judicial Services

November 13, 2008

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[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… [Read more…]

Judiciary payout

November 7, 2008

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While some might be unhappy with the RM10.5 mill ex-gratia payments to the forced-retirement judges, I personally don’t understand what the fuss is about. On a very basic level, I have read of some employees, wrongfully dismissed, who have also got millions. On a similar note, while speaking to two lawyers over lunch yesterday on… [Read more…]