Archive for February, 2008

Samy Vellu walks out in a huff after students fail to humour him

Samy Vellu again. This time at an MIC-organised meet-the-students function at the City Bayview Hotel in Penang yesterday evening.
Present were about 200 STPM Indian Malaysian students and college students from around Penang who were probably invited through Indian students’ societies.
One source told me the students falied to humour and “cooperate” with Samy Vellu and they [...]

Parliament dissolved: How can you trust such a leader?

So Parliament has been dissovled.
And Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has got off to the worst possible start over something as critical as the date for the dissolution of the Federal Parliament to pave the way for the 12th General Election.
It was only yesterday that he denied that Parliament would be dissolved today. I mean, how [...]

Makkal Sakthi drama at Penang CM’s office

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Some 300 Indian Malaysians from the Makkal Sakthi (”People Power”) movement, many of them clad in their trademark orange, gathered at Komtar this morning in an attempt to meet Penang Chief Minister Koh Tsu Koon at his office. With them was five-year-old Vwaishnavi Waythamoorthy, the only daughter of one of the five detained Hindraf [...]

End of the road for biofuels?

The science has finally confirmed what many people had already guessed: clearing land to produce biofuels will increase greenhouse emissions. In fact, it will take many years for the beneficial effects of using biofuels to compensate for the harmful effect of clearing the land.
This is the most damning statistic, cited by the Wall Street Journal:
“Draining [...]

“You know-lah”

The other day, I was waiting for a train. It was late by more than half an hour and crowds were already milling around on the platform. An elderly couple stood nearby, wondering what was happening. Before long, the gentleman walked up to me and asked if it was usual for trains here to be [...]