According to Malaysiakini, Sin Chew Daily journalist Tan Hoon Cheng, who reported about Ahmad Ismail’s racist rant, has been arrested under the Internal Security Act at 8.30pm on Friday (Sept 12) at her home in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.
Latest news from Thestar reported that Seputeh MP Teresa Kok is held under ISA too. She was arrested at 11.20pm.
This is getting ridiculous.
Update - Tan was released after 18 hours of detention. Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said Tan’s detention under the ISA was part of the police’s action to ensure her safety after she received threatening calls… huh???
Teresa is still under arrest.
WTF is the Barisan Nasional government thinking?
As if they haven’t done enough to damage their reputation for the past six months… they decided to detain controversial blogger Raja Petra under ISA for being a threat to security, peace and public order [more on Malaysiakini and Thestar]
I am not a fan of RPK; I think he is an arrogant jerk who trash-talked too much and often bordering on spreading rumours and fabricating stories. But has he done enough to cause security concern for the country? I strongly doubt so.
Pak Lah is trying to justify that the government will not be using ISA without concrete reasons, but seriously… how is it justifiable that the likes of Ahmad Ismail is walking on the streets acting like a patriotic hero?
And from my point of view I won’t even want to see Ahmad Ismail detained under ISA because it’s plain wrong to detain a person without trial as you wished.
Tony Fernandes, the CEO of AirAsia… has started blogging.
I hate blogs that require registrations to leave a comment, but his blog is probably worth a read… he is one of the most exciting corporate leaders in Malaysia after all.
Well, it’s official… the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has ordered the 19 Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country to block the Malaysia-Today website [more on Thestar]
When will the government learn that oppression is never the best way to win support? With Anwar’s threat to seize control looming near, the BN government should take every right measures to win back the people’s support… but bizarrely they are trying to harm their reputation further instead by committing the obvious fault.
You can still access Malaysia-Today via the mirror site or follow the steps by Crankshaft to bypass the ISP block.
The Pakatan Rakyat has just launched a campaign to boycott Utusan Malaysia and Mingguan Malaysia for their unfair reporting and racial sentiment.
It was a bizarre move by Pakatan… for all this while they are fighting for freedom of speech, and now they are, asking people to boycott the papers for their biasness. Such an irony.
I do read Utusan occasionally, and I know how pro-BN and racial biased they could be when reporting certain issues… but that doesn’t mean that they are liars.
Chinese papers are often bias when reporting some racial issues too… Hishammudin’s keris wielding for example was widely criticised in Chinese papers, while the Malay papers were more protective towards the same news.
Sometimes, there is no absolute answer to right or wrong in certain matters… it’s just about sharing different point of views, which is not really a bad thing for better understanding among Malaysians.
Besides, the blogosphere are more biased in favour of Pakatan than the mainstream media for BN… we are the worst when it comes to biasness. So, should BN supporters launch a boycott campaign against the bloggers in return?
So much so for freedom of speech.
Here comes the real heavyweight… Mahathir is now a blogger.
The blog has garnered almost 300,000 visitors in just 7 days, pretty amazing.
Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin has written to dispute Malaysiakini’s reports that there was a recount of votes on polling night of March 8 in the Rembau parliamentary constituency where he won by 5,726.
Malaysiakini has apologised regarding this matter… [Malaysiakini]
On election night, we were informed by PKR candidate Badrul Hisham Shaharin that he was told by an EC official that there would be a recount.
Our story on that night reflected this. In addition, on March 11 Badrul repeated that there was a recount at a press conference and this was reported by not only Malaysiakini but also a number of other newspapers.
However, we have come to know now that such a recount did not take place. As such, we would like to apologise to Khairy Jamaluddin for publishing that assertion in our subsequent stories.
I wonder if Badrul is ready to apologise regarding this mistake too.
BN leaders are joining the blog-wagon as if it’s a gold mine. Here comes the latest… Muhammad Muhd Taib.
Well, he is the Umno information chief after all, he needs to lead the cyber-evolution for the party. However, a blog is just a medium to share thoughts and information; it doesn’t help if the politicians are not doing their best to make the country a better place.