Tim on April 14th, 2009

“Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done”
- Lord Hewart, R. v. Sussex Justices, Ex parte McCarthy
The Altantuya Shaariibu murder case was closed in the eyes of the Malaysian courts last week when Special Forces officers Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar were sentenced to death.
Yet it doesn’t take [...]

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Tim on July 2nd, 2008

Fine, a lot of people are posting about this already – but hey, it could be worse; I could be blogging about XX vs DY…
It’s just all very odd. Mkini conducted a poll and a whopping 95% of its readers thought that it was a political conspiracy against Anwar. Unsurprising really, given the political climate, [...]

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Tim on May 8th, 2008

It was only a matter of time before RPK was hauled up for the statements made on Malaysia Today. He is a great man, but even I find it hard to swallow his posts sometimes. I stopped reading MT regularly partly because of this, and partly because the unadulterated anger in the hundreds [...]

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Tim on July 18th, 2007

The Sun and Malaysiakini have the news (and of course, LKS his opinion): Najib declares that Malaysia is an Islamic state.
The amazing thing is that this was a reply to a question asking if Malaysia was moving from a secular government to an Islamic state! I have to grudgingly admit that the man has guts; [...]

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