While many ordinary people, even the poor, are now burdened with taxes such as GST or VAT, some multinational corporations are channelling billions of dollars through Luxembourg to drastically slash their global tax bills in some cases to an effective tax rate of less than 1 per cent.
Three of Zunar’s part-time assistants were arrested for selling his cartoon books at the Palace of Justice a couple of days ago during the Anwar trial. (The information released at the time and reported was that his wife was among those arrested – but then his wife was in Port Dickson at the time, so how?! Oops.) The three – Rizaldy, Raja Norita and Norliza Mohd Kassim – were released at midnight.Ten copies of Pirates of the Carry-BN and 33 copies of Buku Komplot Penjarakan Anwar were seized. (Check out the books.) The books are apparently being investigated under three laws: the Printing Presses and Publications Act, the Penal Code and the Sedition Act.
A few colleagues and I caught up with Zunar over a banana leaf lunch when he was in Penang recently. Check out the T-shirt he was wearing.Zunar and his T-shirt – His stand is clear. What’s yours?
The pre-tax loss for the year ended 31 March 2014 of RM670m stands in sharp contrast to its pre-tax profit of RM878 in the previous financial year – a swing of some RM1.5bn.
As the Sodomy II trial, reaches a conclusion, what will the outcome be? And how will it reflect on the judiciary and the administration of justice in the country?
It didn’t take long for Indonesia’s new reformist president Jokowi to run into controversy.Human rights activists have criticised his decision to appoint the former army chief of staff, Ryamizard Ryacudu, as Indonesia’s new defence minister.
Sisters in Islam is holding a press conference this morning in response to a fatwa declaring the group as subscribing to “liberalism” and “religious pluralism” and therefore allegedly deviating from the teachings of Islam.
Update (31 October 2014): This site now seems to be accessible via Digi. Several Digi users have complained to me they are unable to access this site for some reason since yesterday morning. They have no problems accessing other websites.
Areas in southern Penang Island were submerged in flash floods this afternoon after a sudden heavy downpour south of USM this morning.Flash floods again – Photograph: wanasri55/Instagram
The padlocked metal gate of University of Malaya was unable to hold back the over 2000 students who had come to listen to Anwar Ibrahim at the University of Malaya last night.And the following are other scenes from UM including clips of Anwar addressing the throng:
Aliran’s P Ramakrishnan has released a press statement on University of Malaya’s reaction to a talk by Anwar Ibrahim organised by UM’s Student Council.
A couple of academics have informed me that all classes have apparently been cancelled from 4.00pm as the university appears to have gone into shut-down mode for today.Meanwhile, a circular purportedly from the campus authorities is making the rounds:
