Posted in Politics, Personality on Sep 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
A full day meeting today, preparation for the coming election. Biro Politik started meeting from the morning and carried on till 14:00hr. Then the Supreme Council (MPT) continued to meet from 15:00hr.
In fact we have to work extra hard during Puasa month as we need not break for lunch or tea.
The MPT ended at about […]
Posted in Friends & Family on Sep 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
Badrul Hisham @ CheguBard got a new baby girl last month 23 Sept. The baby was born at midday.
I was in Bangkok on that day. Both Bard and I happened to be online. Bard told me that Era had just delivered a few minutes ago. It was exciting news. However I was unable to congratulate […]
Posted in Politics, Judiciary on Sep 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
We finally got consent from the Palace that the King is willing to receive a memorandum from Parti Keadilan Rakyat on the issue of the judiciary.
28 Sept morning, President Dr Wan Azizah led a delegation which included Tan Sri Khalid, Shamsul Iskandar and myself to Istana Negara. As usual the police were nervous and […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, International, Migrant workers on Sep 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Burmese migrants in Malaysia held a massive gathering this morning. I was late for the big show as I had to be at Istana Negara to submit memorandum to the King.
I joined the huge crowd as thousands of red-shirt Burmese marching from the Embassy of Burma towards the Embassy of People’s Republic of China. The […]
Posted in Viewpoint, Human Rights, International on Sep 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Street protests growing in Rangoon
Buddhist monks in Burma have been protesting for about 10 days already. The monks started by protesting against the petroleum price hike. Now they are calling for political reforms.
About 2-3 days ago, more than 10 thousand monks participated in the marches all over Burma. It is by coincidence that lawyers in […]
Posted in Judiciary on Sep 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
2000 lawyers and supporters from NGOs and political parties marched in Putrajaya today (26 Sept).
The Bar Council has taken a courageous step. Without any doubt, our judiciary is in dire straits. The response from lawyers was also impressive.
The VK Lingam tape has revealed something that everyone seems to have known. It was already long in […]
Posted in Activities, International, Anwar on Sep 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
On 20 Sept I accompanied Anwar to visit Jose de Venecia Jr., the Speaker of the House of Representatives. We arrived at his residence at about 08:30hr morning.
De Venecia was Anwar’s old friend. He was an ally of President Arroyo until recently. His son, Joey de Venecia III testified on Tuesday 18 Sept in the […]
Posted in Activities, International, Anwar on Sep 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
This was the first time Anwar visited the Philippines since his release in 2004. His attendance to the WFDA Conference coincided with several important dates related to democratic struggle in the region.
The conference reminded Filipinos the long years of dictatorship. On 21 Sept 1972 Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law: the parliament is suspended, opposition politicians […]
Posted in Activities, International on Sep 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I flew into Manila on 18 Sept to attend an international conference known as World Forum on Democratization in Asia. As the title suggests, it was a meeting of pro-democracy activitists from NGOs and political parties around the world.
Other Malaysians participated in the conference were Yap Swee Seng from Suaram, Irene Fernandez from Tenaganita, Cynthia […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Party on Sep 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
At noon 12:00hr 12 Sept, a delegation of PAS and KeADILan leaders appeared at Bukit Aman to demand police conduct professional investigation on the shooting at Pantai Batu Burok.
I flew in from Langkawi that morning (12 Sept), and reached Bukit Aman just in time. Earlier, there was a protest against the privatization of public healthcare […]