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Teks Ucapan Pembahasan

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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Teks Ucapan Pembahasan ADUN Teja Tuan Yang Dipertua, Y.A.B Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Mohd Nizar, Ahli-ahli Yang Berhormat sekalian, Saya mengambil kesempatan di Dewan yang mulia ini untuk merakamkan ucapan terima kasih atas Titah Ucapan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Sultan Perak Darul Ridzuan sempena Pembukaan Perasmian Penggal Pertama, Dewan Undangan Negeri Kedua Belas. Zaman Pasca [...]

Live from state assembly hall

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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State assembly sitting has just started. The question and answer session (1.5 hour) is going on now. BN state assemblymen are dissatisfied with the speaker. They are accussing the speaker for not allowing additional questions from them. All of them are suddenly talking about “fairness”, “keadilan” etc, rare words from them. In fact, the speaker has [...]

Last minute maintenance

Monday, June 23, 2008

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Burning midnight oil… Last minute maintenance works are being carried out in the state assembly hall today. Tomorrow will be the first Perak assembly hall sitting since the exhilarating “political tsunami”. It is my debut sitting as well. I hope I would not embarrass my constituencies and myself ;p Keeping my fingers crossed… p/s: The Perak [...]

Article from the former Bar Council President

Friday, June 20, 2008

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Democracy belongs to the people On 18 June 2008, the Star published a comment piece under the title “Futile to protest against petrol and diesel hikes”. I wrote a response to that article, and emailed it to the editor of the Star, with a request that it be published either as an article or a letter [...]

Dr. Lee shares my view on the issue of Mayor

Monday, June 16, 2008

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Monday June 16, 2008 PKR: We prefer a full-time Ipoh mayor We don’t want the person to leave office to attend Parliament all the time« DR LEE BOON CHYE xxx IPOH: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) has set several criteria for the potential candidate who will take up the post of Ipoh mayor. PKR national vice-president Dr Lee Boon [...]

A fox may grow grey but never good

Thu, Oct 4, 2007

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When Rafiah Salim was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of UM, people were hopeful to see changes in the whilom premier university of the region. When she admitted that UM has much to do to regain its deteriorating position in the 2006 World Universities ranking, respects for her were further elevated. However, a fox may [...]

campus, election, students, UM

Oriental Pearl

Tue, Jul 24, 2007

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Hi, I am now at the Oriental Pearl, Hong Kong. Nothing great lah, just for holiday. This is my short short holiday between my after-exam and new job. Hong Kong is really a fascinating place, superficially though. After spending only a day here, I have so many things to ponder about. I was wandering around alone [...]

Free Nat Now!

Sun, Jul 15, 2007

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I am rather busy at the moment, preparing for exam. Will be back after 20 July. However, exam is a lame excuse for not putting this up. Stop unscrupulous arrest!! Repeal OSA!!!

I am jobless now!

Fri, Jun 8, 2007

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I am officially jobless now. Yes, I have quitted SUARAM, an organisation that I have worked for three years. My last day in SUARAM (as a staff) was 31 May 2007. In fact, I tendered my resignation letter in April. My resignation has got nothing to do with any “internal discontent” nor my commitment in human [...]

A night with RELA

Sun, Mar 25, 2007

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On 12 March, at around 1am, Yap informed me that Zauk (our Canadian intern) was arrested by RELA personnel. Zauk was a Chin refugee who fled from his chaotic country - Burma. He was later resettled in Canada. Zauk is very dedicated and committed in human rights work, his Canada-based organisation sent him to [...]