Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’
Update: The paper is to be called Jakarta Globe and it would be housed at the Aston, the group of apartments/office space owned by Lippo and which houses Globe Asia. It is also confirmed by Joe Cochrane himself that he will be the Deputy Editor
Having had a taste of the power and glory, real or [...]
If you are a PR practitioner, give yourself some good PR advice itself. And if you fail then you make spinmeisters of the rest of us.
Read the article below about how Burson-Marsteller’s CEO Mark Penn shamed his firm or of Edelman’s fiasco in Wal-Mart, which is now a classic story of what NOT to do [...]
When you get down to the bottom of it, ironically, Geert Wilders wants the same thing as the most extreme of the Muslims he attacks in the film Fitna - the terrorists.
The terrorist, according to Louise Richardson in her book What Terrorists Want, is motivated by the 3Rs- Reaction, Revenge, Reknown. The terrorist commits acts [...]
As we all know and the Malaysian Government keeps telling us, it’s all the fault of Mahathir. For what? Whatever.
The proof? See story below. If Mahathir had acted like SBY and, in his time, chastised upcoming leaders for sleeping on the job, the Barisan nasional would still be holding on to the two-thirds-majority, Malaysia wouldn’t [...]
The blogging community in Indonesia is mighty pissed off over a certain Government expert and presidential advisor on technology who has been maligning bloggers as hackers and up to unsavory things.
Last night Minister for Information Muhammed Nuh met with bloggers and when asked what should be done about the so-called “expert” his advice was:
clipped from [...]
Unspun has not hig regard for the FEER but thinks highly of Jeremy Wagstaff, a former correspondent for the Asian Wall Street Journal and now a tech columnist, a blogger and an author to boot. In the analytical piece below you will see why.
Way before he reinvented himself into a tech columnist Jeremy was [...]
Unspun thought it’s important to spread the good news coming out of Indonesia to balance the bad-usualy-terrorist-or-disaster-related news, and now news of Suharto’s death.Indonesia is about producing the world’s featherweight boxing champion too.
clipped from thejakartapost.com
AND STILL CHAMPION: World Boxing Association featherweight
champion Chris John of Indonesia is carried by his Australian
coach Craig Christian, while Chris’ [...]
First Unspun brought you the Rasa Sayang(e) controversy, now the Indang Sungai Garinggiang Fiasco?
Read on. The Antara article below was contributed by reader firdausj with the saying:
“Keledai-pun nggak mau jatuh jatuh dua kali di lobang yang sama” .. Hahahahaha…..
Read on:
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Malaysia Kembali “Bajak” Lagu Daerah Indonesia di Osaka
Tokyo (ANTARA News) - Konsulat Jenderal RI di [...]
Unspun has never been in a position to know women enough to presume to make pronouncements about them, Indonesian, or otherwise. Unspun is just content to admire.But others, such as Indcoup, are braver. Unspun wonders what Indonesian women have to say about his comments of them, some of which are clipped below:
clipped from indcoup.blogspot.com
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With eight days to go to Pesta Blogger 2007 the Steering Committee has been inudated with inquiries from well wishers wanting to know if they might be able to make donations of gifts or cast to help make this event, the first ever large scale national gathering of bloggers, a success.
Any company or individual interested [...]
















