If the racial chauvinists and religious bigots around us are making you sick, take two tablespoons of this beautiful antidote from Ambrose of ‘Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia’.
Live – Teoh Beng Hock inquest resumes
The Teoh Beng Hock inquest resumes today, with the second autopsy report to be presented.
‘One of the biggest medical research frauds’
Big Pharma firms usually peddle wonder drugs and vaccines citing “evidence-based medicine” and “real science” to back up their claims – so tell me, how did a medical researcher receiving grants from these firms get away with fabricating research data for 13 years?
A US doctor, a former member of Pfizer Inc’s speakers’ bureau, has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to accusations of having launched “one of the biggest research frauds in medical history”.
Dr Scott Reuben has been charged with accepting a US$75,000 Pfizer grant to study Celebrex in 2005: problem is no patients were ever enrolled in the study! His research, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, “proved” that the painkiller helped reduce pain during post-surgical recovery.
Will Ku Li leave Umno?
Tengku Razaleigh explains his stand on various issues and tackles the questions: Will you leave Umno? What will happen to Umno?
Four-in-a-row for Zunar
These are the issues of Zunar’s cartoon publications that have seen copies confiscated by the authorities.
Cross-examination of Saiful will have to wait
The cross-examination of key prosecution witness, Saiful, in Anwar’s sodomy trial will have to wait after the judge this morning adjourned proceedings to 25 March.
Anwar’s defence counsel was ready to cross-examine Saiful. “We do not want to be accused of delaying tactics,” said Karpal Singh. “We are prepared to carry on.”
The adjournment follows Anwar’s decision to appeal to the Court of Appeal against High Court judge Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah’s decision this morning not to recuse himself on the basis there was no evidence that he had been biased.
Court of Appeal rejects Anwar’s appeal
1603: Karpal wants to appeal to the Federal Court. But judges maintain a proper application needs to be submitted. Stay denied. Court adjourned.
1547: A 15-minute break presumably for judges to decide whether a stay should be given.
1540: The judge said that a proper application for appeal to the Federal Court has not been filed, reports Jonson. Karpal continues to outline reasons a stay of the sodomy trial should be granted.
1535: The court has agreed with the SG: the medical record is not conclusive and corroborative. The appellant has not shown the charge against him is oppressive and an abuse of the court process. Appeal dismissed.
Umno protest outside Australian High Comm
Umno supporters have protested at what they perceive to be interference in Malaysian affairs by a group of Australian MPs.
Mind your own business, Aussie MPs: Umno Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin addresses a crowd this morning. – Photo twittered by Khairy
Khairy later handed over a protest note to Penny Williams, the Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia.
Must a business be profit driven?
Before 1Malaysia, there was already OneHeart, the story of a multi-ethnic group of young Malaysians who wanted to run a business – without being driven by profits.
Today, blog reader Mist commenting on my “Two Million Ringgit Man” posting observed:
I had spent a large part of my life in academia and I was blissfully oblivious of much of what went on in society, mostly in the corporate world. Recently I got involved in the real estate business and got to meet quite a few people in the corporate world and those who have close association with what went on in the business world. It would seemed that kickbacks are quite common. Proxies are often used to facilitate the process.
And then of course there were other rather unethical practices and I had been given the advice so often that we won’t be able to make a living if we were honest. This advice came about after a bit more than five months of relentless effort and without anything to show for it; being played out by sellers and buyers on more than one occasion.
My point is this: much of society is dishonest and everyone seemed to be out to get an advantage – honest or dishonest – to move forward. We cry foul over governmental corruption and yet it is merely a reflection of what is going on in the wider community.
How depressing! Yes, corruption and unethical practices seem widespread and entrenched in the system, not just in the public sector but also in the private sector.
Is there really no alternative way of doing business? Kelly Law, CEO of OneHeart, and husband Jeffrey, whom I met over a cup of coffee this afternoon, along with their friend and godpa Vincent, think there is.
The Two Million Ringgit Man
Nor Mohamed Yakcop’s political secretary Hasbie Satar resigned last night, according to a statement by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department today.
The statement did not give a reason for Hasbie’s resignation.
But the Malaysian Mirror reported that Hasbie, a Sarawakian, was believed to be the political secretary to a senior minister who was detained during an MACC raid last Thursday on an apartment in Teluk Air Tawar in Butterworth. It added that the fourth-floor apartment was thought to have been “rented by the minister’s election team weeks before the 8 March 2008 general election and later used as a transit-home for the minister’s staff”. The portal said that it was learnt that two of the minister’s service staff were present in the apartment during the raid.
The political secretary was detained after MACC officers found RM2 million in cash, a 4WD and a BMW at the apartment. Bank accounts have now been frozen.
Teluk Air Tawar is one of three Penang state assembly constiutuencies that lie within the federal parliamentary constituency of Tasek Gelugor, which is held by Nor Mohamed.