The Kuala Lumpur Traveler

Well, two months later, Lingam finally broke his silence when he said he will clear his name and will cooperate with royal commission. Why he didn’t say he will clear his name from the very first day he saw the video is anyone’s guess.
What followed up after Pak Lah said yes to the royal commission is even more interresting.
VK Lingam’s estranged brother has made two police reports providing further allegations of judicial corruption and reveal inside information of the senior lawyer’s cozy relationship with top judges, some of whom have since retired.
VK Thirunama Karasu, 49, also claimed …read more

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It took our beloved Prime Minister Pak Lah a long 58 days to finally say yes to a royal commission.
“Didn’t we say before that we would look at the panel report first? We’ve seen it and we feel it is necessary that we establish (the commission),” he said.
Source: Malaysiakini
He is surely a slow thinker at that and so was the 3-member panel , but as we always say it is better late than never. Its too bad that Pak Lah didn’t see advantages of forming a royal commission right from the start. Pity Pak Lah for he has …read more

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Although the panel had received a lot critism, I think the powerless panel of three had redeemed itself in terms of pride when their reports finally revealed (in three separate reports) that a royal commission is required to get to the bottom of this scandal. The recommendation for a royal commission was a smart move by the panel after having to put up with so much pressure from the public.
The New Straits Times said the panel had concluded the clip – featuring senior lawyer VK Lingam purportedly brokering judicial appointments with a top judge – was authentic and should be …read more

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Webmasters and bloggers, if you are not doing anything important this Saturday, you probably want to attend this Webmaster Gathering @ Starbucks, KL Sentral. It would be nice to meet in persons and exchange notes and experiences among the same minds.
I am defintely going to miss this one as I have to work over the weekend to catch-up with a tender submission :p
Organized by Webmastersmalaysia.com, this event is sponsored by Exabyte. Read more about this gathering here.
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Webmasters and bloggers, if you are not doing anything important this Saturday, you probably want to attend this Webmaster Gathering @ Starbucks, KL Sentral. It would be nice to meet in persons and exchange notes and experiences among the same minds.
I am defintely going to miss this one as I have to work over the weekend to catch-up with a tender submission :p
Organized by Webmastersmalaysia.com, this event is sponsored by Exabyte. Read more about this gathering here.
[tags]Webmaster, Starbucks, KL Sentral[/tags]

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The huge crowds now were on their way towards the Sime Darby LRT station, and then to continue their walks to demand for clean and fair elections to Istana Negara. In this video, you can see, despite there were thousands of marchers on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, the traffic were not blocked at all. The crowds were walking and running on both sides of the roads and vehicles were passing through in the middle of the roads. The traffic were rather smooth although it moved at much slower pace. I reiterate, the traffic jams were not caused by the …read more

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After the first tear gas and water canon spray were fired towards the crowds in front of the LRT Masjid Jamek, the people had to escape using the back lane leading towards Masjid Jamek. As you can see in this video, everyone was suffering from the effect ot the tear gas and the chemically-laced water from the red truck. Those who were more prepared came with some clothing to cover their mouths and noses preventing them from directly breathing and inhaling the gas. But the eyes had to work extra hard as there were no ways these poor people could …read more

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If you are asking how many people turned up today in the city center of Kuala Lumpur to attend the Bersih rally, you will never get the true number. But there were so many of them. Harakah Daily reported more than 100,000 although Malaysiakini reported just 40,000. I am not sure how many reported by mainstream media if any at all, but from my guessing game, 40,000 is just too low. At the Masjid Jamek alone there were seas of people. I could not imagine how many were there at other locations such as Masjid Negara and Pasar Seni, but …read more

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Although there were stern warnings by the police and Pak Lah, various pre-cautionary measures taken by the government and the police, thousands of concerned citizens showed up in Kuala Lumpur today. And yes, Kuala Lumpur was painted quite yellow today…. thanks to Bersih for that.

I just came back home from Kuala Lumpur 30 minutes ago. And I am so tired. I was there to discover what really happened at the Bersih gathering where it was supposed to bring together 100,000 concerned Malaysian citizens to join Bersih in the march to the Palace. And in one word, all I can conclude …read more

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Watch out…. come 3pm, 10th November 2007, the city of Kuala Lumpur will suppossedly be painted with yellow. The mission was to mobilize 100,000 citizens all dressed in yellow, to march from Dataran Merdeka to The National Palace to hand over a memorandum to The King seeking help from the Royal Highness to intervene and help to ensure fair elections in Malaysia. The yellow rally, if it ever happens, is organized by Bersih, a Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections.
Malaysiakini however reported that the PM Pak Lah has vowed to crack down on Bersih rally.
“The police have said no, …read more

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