· November, 2006

Stories about Malaysia from November, 2006

Malaysia: Violent Demolition

  30 November 2006

Ktemoc writes about the callousness shown by authorities in demolishing a village and a place of worship within it. “But what was typical was the brutal suppression of the villagers by the MPAJ enforcers. It seems that in Vision 20/20 Malaysia, the mentality of authority enforcers are still of Vision...

Malaysia: Teaching Arabic in Schools

  30 November 2006

The EducationMalaysia blogs writes why students are leaving national schools for already overcrowded vernacular schools. “Now, even as mother tongue programmes have yet to be fully implemented in the schools, you will find bungling headmasters and education department officials implementing the most clumsy of policies like forcing Indian students in...

Malaysia: Incomplete Training Program

  29 November 2006

The Malaysian agrees with Malaysian higher education minister on the plan to send Malaysian IT graduates to India for training but feels that the duration of the stay could be longer. “I wonder if such a ‘condensed’ training package will be worth the investment financially?”

Malaysia: Timid Response to Australian Insult

  23 November 2006

Blueheeler is disappointed by the timid response by Malaysian ministers timid response to an Australian journalist's critical article on Malaysia. The blogger misses the days when Mahathir was the prime minister and the world was treated to frequent bouts of verbal fights between him and former Australian prime minister Paul...

Malaysia: US Supreme Court Ruling

  23 November 2006

Jeff Ooi blogs about the latest California Supreme Court ruling that says websites that publish inflammatory information written by other parties cannot be sued for libel. The blogger says two Malaysian newspaper editors would have been wiser men if the ruling has come some time earlier. The editors has tried...

Malaysia: Fake Degrees

  21 November 2006

Kian Ming at Educationmalaysia blog is concerned about the problem of fake university degrees in Malaysia.

China: Put the E back in APEC

  19 November 2006

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum came to a harmonious enough end this Sunday with all twenty-one member nations agreeing to renew calls for North Korea to put an end to its nuclear plans and key player China putting its weight behind the pledge. Chinese bloggers, however, seem to have...

Singapore: Retrenchment Compensation

  17 November 2006

Blueheeler in Singapore applauds the newly lauched compensation scheme for retrenched workers in Malaysia and says that Singapore should implement similar policies.

Malaysia: “Sexy Attire” and CCTV Malfunction

  13 November 2006

Sk Thew in Malaysia blogs about the incident where CCTV operator in Penang Town Council was caught zooming his camera on women journalist's thighs. The council is now blaming the “sexy attire” of the journalists rather than punishing the CCTV operator.

Malaysia: Remembering Japanese Occupation

  11 November 2006

Ooi Boon-Leong writes another episode of his blog-memoir of Japanese occupation of Malaya during the World War 2. “It was a Japanese school in that it taught us the Japanese language, arithmetic and drawing. There were about 40 Chinese boys in a class and the form master was also a...

Malaysia: Free Access Zone in Johor

  6 November 2006

The blogger at aisehman.org feels that Malaysian citizens might find Johor's plan of setting up Free Access Zones (where the residents can seamlessly travel to and from Singapore) insulting. Johor is a Malaysian state that neighbours Singapore and it sees these Free Access Zones as a way of attracting foreigners...

Malaysia: Remembering Japanese Occupation

  3 November 2006

Ooi Boon-Leong remembers life as a young kid in Malaysia during the World War 2 Japanese occupation. “We were disturbed by the Japanese only once when they came in trucks. We heard the rumbling of their trucks when they went over a bridge which they had to cross to reach...

Malaysia: Online News Site Barred From Party Convention

  3 November 2006

The Malaysian reports that popular Malaysian online site Malaysiakini is not being allowed to cover the ruling party UMNO's annual convention. “The ruling Umno began actively banning malaysiakini soon after the online media exposed the illegal logging by Umno Pahang of a vast swath of peat swamp forests in the...

Malaysia: Palagiarism by Editor

  2 November 2006

Jeff Ooi at the Screenshots blog writes that Malaysia's New Straits Time Press[NSTP] is threatening to sue BBC over a report filed by its Malaysian correspondent. The BBC story said that the paper's group editor Brendan Pereira was resigning because of allegations of plagiarism. “it remains to be seen whether...