Going “green” properly requires many considerations (© Steve Woods / sxc.hu) FOR many of us, the colour green symbolises the environment. Individuals, organisations and countries are going green, not just because it’s popular but more importantly, because it’s crucial to the sustainability of this planet we call home. However, a recent “green” move by the […]
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M’sian youths stick with “mainstream media”
KUALA LUMPUR, 30 June 2009: Most Malaysian youths keep up to date with the news, but almost half say they mistrust the sources they get it from, according to the Merdeka Center‘s 2008 National Youth Survey. Ibrahim Suffian “There is skepticism over the news they are getting in the mainstream media as well as the […]
Supporting shorties online
By Cindy ThamThe 2008 winner, Nazim Mohammed Esa (Pic courtesy of BMW Shorties) AS the BMW Shorties enters its third season, it is throttling up its use of the internet to promote the annual short film competition aimed at nurturing young filmmakers in Malaysia. One telling sign is the range of social media tools on the BMW […]
Pornography and protests not allowed
By Zedeck Siew(Laptop image by Manu Mohan / sxc.hu; artwork by Scott Feldstein @ Flickr) KUALA LUMPUR, 16 June 2009: Pornographic websites are among 38 “offensive” sites which government servants are blocked from accessing. In addition, a 2003 government circular to civil servants warns them against downloading or uploading material that may disparage the government’s image or that […]
Gerakan Youth opposes use of PPPA on internet
By Deborah LohPETALING JAYA, 12 June 2000: Gerakan Youth is against a Home Ministry proposal to use the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 on the internet media. Youth chief Lim Si Pin criticised the suggestion by the ministry’s secretary-general, Datuk Mahmood Adam, who was reported in the China Press recently as saying that the act might […]
Twitterholic
By Cindy ThamOVER the past one month alone, the number of people who follow The Nut Graph on Twitter has more than doubled to about 800. That’s not a lot compared with several other news sites in Malaysia, or with Malaysian Twitterers like Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, DAP leader […]
S’gor hopes for full Net penetration in five years
SHAH ALAM, 27 May 2009: Selangor hopes to achieve full internet penetration in five years, said State Exco for Welfare, Women Affairs, Science, Technology and Innovation Rodziah Ismail. This could be achieved via a RM2mil communication project to be undertaken by local private telecommunication companies and also those from abroad. “When completed, internet penetration in […]
Media banning is legal
By Zedeck Siew“This is nothing. Why do you call it a crackdown? This is quite normal. We always give reminders to newspapers or political parties which publish organs regardless of whether it is the BN or other parties.” DEPUTY Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung, who said the suspension of two opposition party newspapers under the Printing […]
Internet media barred from Umno (Updated 6.40pm)
By Deborah LohKUALA LUMPUR, 24 March 2009: Umno, which started its general assembly today to plot the party’s renewal under a new leadership, showed the first sign of its resistance to reform – it barred the internet media from covering the five-day event. Initially, no word was issued officially but checks by the press corp and online […]
Netizens battle on Perak
By Cindy ThamPETALING JAYA, 6 Feb 2009: Reaction to the political crisis in Perak has been all over the internet. On 5 Feb 2009, the day it became official that the Barisan Nasional (BN) had succeeded in booting out the Pakatan Rakyat state government, people of different political leanings and convictions blogged furiously about it. Some, however, […]
