As always Zaid Ibrahim continues to fascinate us with his arguments. Here is his latest blog post which will certainly stimulate your thoughts. He tells us: My son Ezra loves books. Even in primary school he was already reading books on a wide range of subjects. When he graduated, I suggested to him that we…
What is Volkswagen accused of? It’s been dubbed the “diesel dupe”. The German car giant has admitted cheating emissions tests in the US. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), some cars being sold in America had devices in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested, changing the performance accordingly to improve…
On Monday there was a human rights seminar on shariah. I knew about it quite late and it became prominent yesterday through http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/…/ask-right-questions-in…. For those unaware, Aston Paiva is a human rights lawyer who acted in the controversial Negeri Sembilan transgender case against the religious authorities. Lawyer Lukman Sheriff Alias has his say: I…
This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping is making his first official visit to the US. It takes place against a background of accusations flung by both the US and China over state-backed hacking. BBC’s Mark Ward reports: On Monday this week, a US national security adviser warned China that the hacking must stop and said…
In September 2015, the body of a three-year-old Syrian boy was found floating on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Photographs of the boy were quick to get circulated world over, and the world responded with a massive outcry over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis. This video, by In a Nutshell, speaks about…
FOR starters let’s get our terminology straight … It’s not HAZE, it’s SMOG – thick smothering SMOG! Cecil Rajendra explains: According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), haze is a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere caused by particles of dust, etc. Smog, however, is defined as fog or haze intensified by smoke or other…
In a heartfelt Facebook message, former Wanita Umno chief Rafidah Aziz appealed to the people, on the eve of Malaysia Day, to discard their differences and come together as one to uphold all that the Jalur Gemilang, the national flag, stood for. “Let the true colours of Malaysia be the ones we uphold… Our Jalur…
Every once in a while, a great love story is told. Rehman Rashid shares his with treasured memories in this master piece – We met in 1987, soon after I returned from a year in the UK as the New Straits Times’s London correspondent. I was at the zenith of my newspaper career (yes, I…
British Airways passengers came in for harsh criticism when they were pictured grasping their hand luggage as they evacuated an enflamed plane in Las Vegas. Was that fair? BBC’s Ashley Gold reports: The plane, bound for London, forced the evacuation of 170 people and 14 people were hospitalised, although they were all later discharged. People…
Google had quashed a rumour that it has collaborated with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to enable the latter to “watch” local blogs. The Mole’s Zaidi Azmi reports: Such rumour was floated in the cyberspace when several anonymous bloggers pointed out that their domain suffixes were changed from .com to .my. However, Google…
Apple is planning to make it easier than ever to stay addicted to the iPhone with the introduction of its new iPhone Upgrade Program that will allow fans to upgrade to a new device every single year. Cult of Mac reports: Phil Schiller announced the new program on stage at Apple’s keynote today, revealing that…
The three-year jail sentence against Xavier Andre Justo, a heavily tattooed Swiss IT expert, for corporate blackmail by a Thailand criminal court could spark criminal probes and lawsuits in Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Bernama reports: Justo pleaded guilty to the theft of huge amounts of corporate data from his former employer PetroSaudi International,…
Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown, in conspiring with others against Malaysia, had sensationally told Xavier Andre Justo that she was changing the “destiny of one country” and that she would celebrate with a glass of champagne when “Najib is done”. NST has the story here: A shocking new revelation following the Aug 17 jailing of…
With the refugee crisis worsening as many Syrians attempt to flee to Europe, many people may find themselves wondering just how the war in that country got so bad, and why so many are fleeing now. Here, then, is a very brief history of the war, written so that anyone can understand it. Zack Beauchamp…
French prosecutors confirmed Thursday that a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was from ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a month after tests on the flaperon began. “It is possible today to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on Reunion island on July 29 came from flight MH370,” Paris prosecutors said…
