Aliran Monthly has a digital version!

 Civil society, Democracy, Media  9 Responses »
Aug 232008
 
Aliran Monthly has a digital version!

Here’s a treat for you! Check out the all-new digital version of Aliran Monthly. Aliran is providing the inaugural edition free to all readers in conjunction with the Permatang Pauh by-election. You can experiment and play around with the feature-rich icons inside. Okay, I am off to Permatang Pauh now! Meanwhile, Muhammad Firdaus Christopher shares this view from Ground Zero: Dear Anil & readers, I have been in P44 areas every night since 16th Aug and I can tell you that these BN … are spending … money on food, food, food. The only activity to be seen in the camps are makciks, pakciks, brothers and sisters all having some good bite (apart from talking trash). They are simply wasting … funds; no wonder they still have an outstanding mammoth bill of RM218M from 2004. Bottomline, Datuk Seri is gaining more and more votes from the folks here… Salam Reformasi!

BN election workers missing in action: A tell-tale sign

 M'sian politics, Malaysian elections  54 Responses »
Aug 232008
 
BN election workers missing in action: A tell-tale sign

No one home… Last night, while I was in Seberang Jaya, I couldn’t help noticing a number of BN road-side ‘operations centres’ that were deserted. No one home. Mind you this was in BN candidate Ariff Shah’s stronghold, his Penang state assembly seat area. Of course, there were a few BN booths that did have volunteers staffing them. But the number of BN stalls that lay empty suggests that the ruling coalition clearly over-estimated the response it would receive from volunteers. The first three of these photos were taken near the site of an Anwar ceramah in a residential area (near Jalan Siakap 12), which saw a crowd of around a thousand turning up to listen. It was between 10.30pm and 11.00pm, when many people were on the streets checking out what was going on.

Chinese throw their weight behind Pakatan

 Ethnic and inter-religious relations, M'sian politics, Malaysian elections  14 Responses »
Aug 232008
 
Chinese throw their weight behind Pakatan

Any lingering doubts over who the Chinese Malaysians voters of Seberang Jaya were opting for were dispelled last night when about 3,000 people turned up to listen to Anwar and other PKR speakers such as Nurul Izzah and Azmin Ali. It was not so not so much the actual numbers but their enthusiastic reaction and body language and the way they warmed to Anwar’s speech. Anwar was of course in his element and tugged at what was close to the hearts of the crowd – education, language and the economy. He stressed the importance of Chinese as a language of economic significance. He said that many people even in the United States were learning the language. “It is not because they love China, but they realise that it is a language of economic importance.”

Petrol price cut a sign of desperation

 Energy resources, Malaysian elections  44 Responses »
Aug 222008
 
Petrol price cut a sign of desperation

Graph from oilnergy.com Having identified one of the main sources of public disenchantment, the BN-led government, with one eye firmly on the Permatang Pauh by-election campaign, has cut the price of petrol from RM2.70 to RM2.55 – a reduction of 5.6 per cent. This price change is clearly politically motivated. When they raised the petrol price in Malaysia by 41 per cent on 5 June, the price of Nymex Light Sweet Crude was around US$125 per barrel (on 4-5 June). The closing price yesterday was US$121 – not much different from then – and now they announce a cut of 5.6 per cent? Tell me it has nothing to do with Permatang Pauh. Why didn’t they wait until 1 Sept, the date they had fixed earlier for “streamlining” oil prices?

Tide turns against BN; landslide win for Pakatan?

 Democracy, M'sian politics, Malaysian elections  42 Responses »
Aug 222008
 
Tide turns against BN; landslide win for Pakatan?

BN supporters feeling the heat (Photo credit: Abang Benet) I was on the mainland yesterday and ran into a few people. From my conversations with them, it sounded like quite a few people were determined to teach the BN a lesson in the by-election. The Christians are utterly disgusted with the “show cause” letter to The Herald. They are definitely not impressed. Many of them are urging their friends and family members to vote for the opposition. Najib and Khairy’s  presence – and Saiful’s via video – in Permatang Pauh could prove to be counterproductive, to put it politely. I ran into a DAP grassroots worker and he said that they are going all out to ensure the BN candidate loses his deposit – and he seemed confident it was within reach! (That remains to be seen.) Rural Penanti and Permatang Pasir are in the Pakatan bag, he claimed. The [Read more]

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