Human Rights Watch tells Malaysia to end crackdown on Peaceful Campaigners

BANGKOK, June 30, 2011 – The Malaysian government should immediately end its crackdown on the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) and release everyone arbitrarily detained for involvement in its activities, Human Rights Watch said today. Police should return all Bersih-related materials confiscated during the past week and cease pursuing spurious criminal charges, including sedition and “waging war against the king,” against peaceful political activists, Human Rights Watch said.  

Are aliens getting less camera shy? UFOs filmed above BBC building in London

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By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 9:13 AM on 29th June 2011

Crowd puller: By the time the cameraman arrives
on the scene there are already three other people
observing the 'phenomenon'

If UFOs are real and trying to get our attention perhaps they are getting a little more savvy about the way we humans work.

A new video has emerged purporting to show 'a mothership and its fleet' zipping around in the clouds above a BBC building in West London.

Perhaps the group of intergalactic travellers was hoping for some coverage from Auntie.

UFOs? In the video, three fast-moving white dots
streak across the London skyline

Najib ‘last visit’ to Sabah sparks polls talks

By Luke Rintod of FMT

The prime minister has hinted that the 13th general
election is around the corner during a closed-down
meeting with BN leaders.

KOTA KINABALU: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has indicated that this would be his “last visit” to Sabah and that snap elections could be held anytime between “now and early next year”.

Najib had apparently made this disclosure during a closed-door meeting with Sabah Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders here yesterday.

PSM women hit, told to drink toilet bowl water, change clothes in front of men

Written by  Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle

Parti Sosialis Malaysia, picked on by the authorities and accused of 'rekindling' Communism, has made startling revelations. 14 of its women members detained in a recent crackdown have been "kicked on the legs", "pushed and spat on", told to drink water from the toilet bowl and forced to change clothes in front of male officers.

The women were part of a group of 30 PSM members, including Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj, who were arrested at the Sungai Dua toll plaza in Penang. They had been travelling in a bus and were part of a roadshow and leafleting campaign for the July 9 Bersih Rally for free and fair elections.

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.