Posts Tagged ‘Malaysia’

The ever eloquent Patrick Teoh hits home with the latest nonsense from Mahathir Mohammad, who thinks that he can fool all the people all the time that he’s actually a Malay.
Of all the audacious hoaxes and scams perpetrated on the Malaysian people over the years, none has been as audacious and preposterous as Mahathir’s claim [...]

It is easy to criticize, especially when you have a blog handy. But Unspun feels that it is also important to give credit when credit is due.
Prime Minister and Grand Poobah of Umno Abdullah Badawi has led the Umno supreme council in coming to a decision to suspend Ahmad Ismail’s membership for three years and [...]

They say if all you have is a hammer then all your problems start to look like nails.
So it is with the Malaysian government. With Anwar Ibrahim now beating at the gates the Badawi government has gotten more desperate.
First some low ranking lackey called Saiful was asked to try to frame Anwar by filing a [...]

Students of crisis and issues management as well as crisis communications should find this case interesting. This case came to Unspun’s attention when Edward Skading posted a comment in this blog that says:
Dear Blogger,
Hello.
My name is Edward Skading and I am writing to seek your corporation and support to help me uphold our consumer rights [...]

Malaysians were aghast when they learned that Sufiah Yusof, Malaysia’s child maths genius who was accepted at Oxford when she was 12 had turned into a hooker.
Unspun’s usually unreliable, and late, sources now tell of a move by top government officials to help her manager her sex overdrive. They’ve pointed Unspun to an unattributed news [...]

Unspun’s been told that someone who’s virtually a household name in Malaysia will will be unveiling their blog soon, probably early next month. The blog will mainly be about politics and public affairs. It will probably be on blogspot. The author already has a website that’s more an archive.  Keep your eyes peeled.

When will they learn that technology changes nothing except that it helps you reach more people, faster, and with less expense?
Umno’s problem, alas, is not one of logistics but of credibility. Unless the party members change the way they think, come off their high horse and genuinely engage their intended readers and voters, all the [...]

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:

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The Barisan Nasional has suffered its most serious setback and humiliation in 50 years at Saturday’s general election.The opposition has triumphed with unqualified success, capturing 5 key states and confining the BN win to a simple majority instead of its traditional two-thirds plus in Parliament.There is no question that bloggers played a part in [...]