Soi Lek sacked - 27 August

• Soi Lek sacked - 27 August 2009
• Court omits MACC allegations of graft against DAP men
• PAS maintains Chinese support, Umno race tactics a flop
• Syariah court of appeal to revise Kartika’s sentence
• PAS wins by big margin 25 Aug. 2009
• A (H1N1): Latest victim is 3-yr-old; death toll rises to 70 - 25 Aug, 2009
• MACC officer admits top officials gave orders
• Rohaizat's disbarment- DPM sullies his office - 24 Aug 2009; Aliran
• More Malaysians turn to international schools
• Time for politics to have principles: Zaid
• Many still complacent about anti-H1N1 measures
• 310 discharged from hospitals; no deaths recorded - 22 Aug, 2009

Malaysia, Stop Whipping and End Corporal Punishment for All Offences

Malaysia, Stop Whipping and End Corporal Punishment for All Offences
By WAO, PKKS, SIS, All Women's Action Society

On the 20 July 2009, the Syariah High Court in the Malaysian state of Pahang sentenced Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, to six strokes of the cane and fined her RM5,000 (approximately US$ 1,400) after she pleaded guilty to consuming beer two years ago at a hotel in Pahang. On 18 August 2009 the same Shariah Court ordered that Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno be remanded at the Kajang women’s prison in the state of Selangor from Monday, 24 August 2009 and caned within seven days of this date.
To our knowledge, no person in Malaysia, male or female, has thus far been caned under the country’s Shariah laws, making her the first to be punished in this way. Furthermore Kartika will be the first woman to be caned in Malaysia as under the existing Malaysian Criminal Procedure Code, only males are subjected to caning for a range of crimes. Women’s Groups urges the government of Malaysia to review caning as a form of judicial punishment under the Common and Syariah legal systems. In the case of Kartika, it constitutes further discrimination against Muslim women in Malaysia and violates Constitutional guarantees of equality and non-discrimination as whipping of women under Shariah Criminal Offences legislation contradicts civil law where women are not punishable by caning under Section 289 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
There is no consensus among Muslim scholars on the range of crimes for which whipping is prescribed, nor on whether women should be whipped. Nor is whipping for consuming alcohol considered proportionate to the gravity of the offence. Sisters In Islam, a member of JAG in their press statement on 23 July 2009 have said:
“SIS believes that Islam as a religion of compassion calls people to the way of God with wisdom, as expressed in Surah An-Nahl,16:125 , “Invite all to the way of the Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching, and reason with them in the ways that are best and most gracious.”
.....read more HERE

Calon BN di Penang

• Not one but three charges against Rohaizat
• Calon BN
• King's ransom for a guardhouse (video)
• Justice may be delayed, but it can never be denied
• Penan task force report "not available"
• Permanent Link to The final nail in Rohaizat’s political coffin
• Rohaizat’s partner denies Umno’s accusation
• Mystery letter about death of Teoh Beng Hoct unfold - details here
• 'Umno has different moral code?' Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah unhappy
• Death at MACC: My CSI part XI: The watch and the left hand
• Clarification regarding UMNO Candidate for Permatang Pasir By-election, Rohaizat Othman
  

MACC and Mystery Letter

• Mystery letter about death of Teoh Beng Hoct unfold - details here
• Rohaizat’s partner denies Umno’s accusation
• Mystery letter fingers senior MACC officer over Teoh’s death
• 'Umno has different moral code?' Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah unhappy
• Death at MACC: My CSI part XI: The watch and the left hand
• Clarification regarding UMNO Candidate for Permatang Pasir By-election, Rohaizat Othman
• Tiong dedah sewa RM1 bagi 32 unit kampus KTAR
• Pakatan attacks Rohaizat over disbarment

August Blog News 2009

Around the blogs in August 2009

• Face masks now a price-controlled item
• Reckless bloggers can be prosecuted
• The Perfect Murder That Wasn’t
• Iban farmer arrested for defending his NCR land - 16 August, 2009
• The fate of 3 helpful witnesses
• How come our broadband is slower than narrow band?
• The bride wore black
• Pilihan raya kecil di kawasan “pengkhianat”
• Bagaimana Selangor di-"PERAK"kan?
• H1N1: Time to get real serious
• Why is A (H1N1) death rate in Malaysia four times the global fatality rate?
• Dispute over suicide theory
• ‘Mr Correct, Correct, Correct’ is back
• Councillor injured in scuffle with MACC officers
• The MACC's job is to cover PDRM's backside; and vice versa
• Ong, Tiong in limelight over RM10m ‘gift’, use of private planes
• The Malay struggle and the traitors
• Myanmar silences Suu Kyi - again
• In Khairy’s backyard, Anwar draws thousands despite traitor allegations
• Of Late and Latest
• Mangsa Utusan Malaysia
• Malaysia: Drop Sedition Charges Against Parliamentarian
• Lee Hwa Beng lodges report against Kuala Dimensi and BTA Architect - Aug.11
• PKFZ task force finds RM500m in questionable claims
• Does the left hand know what the right is doing?
• Fraudulent Defenders of Our Faith
• Is Malaysia going to be another village idiot-
• Language switch: Gov't bars parents-teachers meet (Video) - 8 Aug, 2009 (read: Reliving the myth of the lazy native: the PPSMI issue and the denying of success to the poor)
• Inquest of Teoh Beng Hock in Video(Attorney-General’s Chambers Malaysia)
• In Malaysia, different rules for different folks - Malaysian Insider; 8 Aug.2009
• Police told to test ‘possible blood stains’ in MACC office
• 91pc in Home Ministry web poll want ISA abolished
• Rais confirms ‘green dam’, says to shut out ‘blue sites’
• People of Malaysia- Three cultures — Leon Dorai (loyarburok.com)
• Dismantling the Feudal Culture - Towards A Competitive Malaysia #115
• Updates on Teoh Inquest at: insider_latest on Twitter
• Hassan’s beef with beer: Time for Pakatan to crack the whip
• Demonstrations- A fundamental right of citizens
• Heroes don’t hold batons
• A(H1N1): Three more deaths, total at 12
• Teoh inquest- No match to unknown DNA found
• Teoh's inquest - 5 August, 2009
• ISA detainees are tortured under interrogation
• Car Prices - Secret Weapon To Win (Or Lose) The Next General Elections
• Racism, incitement and sedition in Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian

Teoh Inquest Begins - 5 Aug. 2009

• Teoh inquest- No match to unknown DNA found
• Teoh's inquest - 5 August, 2009 - The Star

Kampong Pala and political game

• Car Prices - Secret Weapon To Win (Or Lose) The Next General Elections
• Racism, incitement and sedition in Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian
• Arrest and Detention of Minors
• No cheers to tyranny of the majority
• Why indeed do people take to the streets?
• Kampung Pala: Legacy of a landowner
• Brothers, be just to your sisters
• Malaysiakini photos of the anti-ISA march
• Separation of powers
• Helter skelter as police crush protest - 1st July, 2009
• ISA - KL turns to battlezone as police fire teargas, chase protesters into Pertama complex.
• Bernama Bhd sues Bernama TV for debts
• Let’s go back 25 years