Tidak pernah dan tidak akan muncul di kedai buku berdekatan LEBIH sebulan sudah berlalu sejak kejadian percubaan rasuah di Balai Polis Tun HS Lee yang saya ceritakan dahulu. Kini, saya cuba memberanikan diri untuk melaporkan kejadian tersebut kepada Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM), tapi hajat masih belum tercapai sebab sibuk. Tetapi semasa menunggu sampai sempat […]
Fahmi Fadzil
Semuanya aman di Bukit Aman
Oleh Fahmi FadzilTidak pernah dan tidak akan muncul di kedai buku berdekatan TANGGAL 16 Nov 2009. Sudah lebih dua minggu kejadian percubaan mendapatkan saya membayar rasuah kepada S (nama samaran anggota polis trafik) berlaku, tapi saya masih gementar untuk melaporkan kejadian. Maklumlah, persepsi orang ramai terhadap Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) belumlah mencapai tahap memuaskan sejak akhir-akhir ini, […]
Wayang ways
By Nick ChooWayang Rakyat at The Curve, 2007 (© Khoo Eng Yow) THE Malay word for “theatre” is “wayang”. But say the word “wayang” and the first thing many of us would associate it with is “kulit”. Small-scale, community-focused, traditional; of yellow lights and opaque screens; tinny voices, dalang and gamelan. Funny how the multifaceted nature of […]
Peristiwa di balai polis
Oleh Fahmi FadzilTidak pernah dan tidak akan muncul di kedai buku berdekatan LEBIH kurang dua minggu sebelum Hari Raya Aidilfitri tahun ini, saya telah terlibat dalam satu kemalangan jalan raya. Waktu itu, seperti hari-hari yang kita alami sekarang, hujan kerap turun. Di Bangsar, akibat jalan yang licin dan kecuaian memandu (awas bila hari hujan, kalian!), kereta saya […]
Women – men’s property by law
By The Fairly Current Show
Corrected on 11 Nov 2009 at 5.10pm RECENTLY, a court case involving Malaysian TV personality Daphne Iking invoked an archaic law that has gotten many parties up in arms. The law in question is Section 498 of the Penal Code. The section deals with the issue of “enticing or taking away or detaining with a […]
Seksualiti Merdeka: Independence and rights
By The Fairly Current Show
SEKSUALITI Merdeka is an annual sexuality rights festival featuring a programme of talks, lectures, forums, workshops, theatre and music performances, interactive installations and film screenings. Launched in 2008, the festival aims to underscore the fact that even after 52 years of independence, many of us are still not free to be who we are. The […]
Upholding the Child Act
By The Fairly Current Show
THE recent anti-Internal Security Act (ISA) rally on 1 Aug 2009 saw tens of thousands of Malaysians take to the streets of Kuala Lumpur to object against the law which allows for indefinite state detention without trial. The rally saw what was likely to be the largest number of arrests at a single event in […]
