KGB vs CIA

The KGB and CIA get together one day and decide that they will decide the fates of their two agencies with a dogfight. An agreement is made to reconvene in six years with each country’s most vicious dog for the decisive fight.

English in a Globalizing World !!!!

Mojuntin breaks his ‘fast-to-death’

Fasting ex-minister Conrad Mojuntin is grateful to
Chief Minister Musa Aman for reinstating his pension.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s former Culture, Youth and Sports minister Conrad Mojuntin has ended his fast-to-death campaign after the government ‘showed indications’ that it would re-instate his pension.

Relenting to advice from his family and Catholic priests, Mojuntin, 64, ended his fast yesterday evening with ‘honey and bread’.

RM48m spent on PM, DPM’s official houses

A big chunk of money amounting to RM33 million
was spent on rent.

KUALA LUMPUR: The government spent RM48.7 million of taxpayers’ money on the official residences of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin from 2006 to 2010, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Aziz said.

A huge chunk of the amount, totalling close to RM33 million, was spent on rent. Both Seri Perdana and Sri Satria in Putrajaya are owned by local authority Perbadanan Putrajaya.

Fasting ex-minister may stop campaign

KOTA KINABALU: A former Sabah minister who pledged to “fast to death” may consider ending his fast now that the government has begun to “show some response” to his grievances.

Conrad Mojunti, 64, the former state culture, youth and sports minister, began his fast on June 17 to draw the government’s attention to his personal and state-level concerns over religious persecution and the marginalisation of native Sabahans.

Isn’t a one-race civil service a form of apartheid?

I remember once as a young medical officer, I was boycotted by operating theatre staff when I wanted stern action taken against a staff nurse who went for a kenduri when she was supposed to scrub for a surgery.


An assistant nurse had to cover up for her delinquent senior. Both the nurses – the one who had absented herself and the one suddenly forced to relieve her duty – were Malay. The young patient lying on my operating table waiting to deliver her baby was Malay too. And also Malay, the anaesthesist and other operating theatre staff who gave me the cold shoulder after I remonstrated with the matron.

Academic consensus on unfair elections: Reinforcing the case for Bersih’s march

Many Malaysians may be unaware of the considerable research work by social scientists – both local and foreign – that have unequivocally concluded that the country’s record on free and fair elections has been abysmal. Analysis of this remarkable record of trickery, manipulation and gerrymandering by first the Alliance, followed by Barisan Nasional (BN), goes back for more than 50 years – in fact soon after the country received its independence.

Confession: Son of a b****

Girl: "Forgive me father for I have sinned."

Priest: "What have you done my child?"

Girl: "I called a man a son of a b****."

Priest: "Why did you call him a son of a b****?"

‘Let’s retire BN’ campaign by PSM kicks off

Party embarks on nationwide tour to create awareness
among citizens' of democratic rights and the
pitfalls of returning BN to power

IPOH: Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), with a pithy slogan, ‘Udahlah tu…Bersaralah’ (Enough already – retire now), has embarked on nationwide campaign to remind Malaysians of the pitfalls of returning Barisan Nasional to power in the 13th General Election.


The party said it’s time for BN to ‘retire’ from politics as it is already 54 years old politically and has done little to uplift the socio- economic status of  the majority of Malaysians .

SAPP play up Sabah autonomy war cry

Its president Yong Teck Lee says the time has
come for Sabahans to take full control of
their state from Putrajaya.

KOTA KINABALU: Former chief minister Yong Teck Lee wants Sabahans to give him a chance to bring back genuine political autonomy to the state.

The local opposition kingpin said his Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) is committed to fighting for the state rights and would do everything in its power to end Putrajaya’s control of the state and its people.