THERE is an etiquette to online chatter. We don’t write in ALL CAPS LIKE THIS, because that would mean we are shouting. We use emoticons when expression may be difficult to gauge. We think and check before we pass something around. But apart from “netiquette”, what kind of online behaviour would get you in trouble […]
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What does Umno value?
By Ding Jo-AnnTHE disproportionate response to the recent “slipper garland” proposal by an MIC delegate highlights once again what the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) government really values above all else. Umno politicians have been falling over themselves in the rush to defend Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad against an MIC delegate’s suggestion to garland the former premier’s portrait […]
Fined RM10,000 for insulting Sultan (Updated 5pm)
(Corrected 4:25pm, 13 March 2009) KUALA LUMPUR, 13 March 2009: A school laboratory assistant was fined RM10,000 in default five months jail by the Sessions Court here today for posting comments insulting the Sultan of Perak on a website, the first such case in the country. Azrin Md Zain, 33, who works at a private […]
Perak tree sitting and a Paris tennis court
By Clive KesslerDATUK Seri Azalina Othman Said has characterised the attempt of the Speaker to convene an emergency sitting of the Perak state assembly as “uncivilised” and as recourse to the “law of the jungle”. Never in the country’s history, she avers, has a state assembly sitting been convened under a tree. Perhaps she is right. But […]
Guan Eng to sue Utusan Malaysia, Shabudin
Corrected 1.25pm, 25 Feb 2009 KUALA LUMPUR, 24 Feb 2009: Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng today denied that the state government had formed the Inter-Faith Consultative Council and described a report on its formation as defaming the state government. Angered by today’s front-page report in Utusan Malaysia, entitled DAP hina Islam?, Lim, who is […]
Police report on blog
KUANTAN, 30 Dec 2008: The Pahang police have received the first report on the existence of a blog insulting the Prophet Muhammad. State Criminal Investigation Department deputy chief Supt Mohd Haris Daud said the report was lodged on 27 Dec by Maran Umno Youth vice-chief Hairul Amin Othman at the Maran police headquarters at 3.45pm. […]
