Archive for the ‘raja petra’ Category

BAN NON-DRINKERS FROM DRIVING

Saturday, August 13th, 2011

The Malaysian Bersih rally in July 2011 cannot be compared to the riots in Britain because the looters in the UK were not concerned about loss of life or damage to property. They intentionally wanted to damage property. By Raja Petra Kamarudin of Malaysia Today. About 3,000 people die a year ...

WHAT DID WE ACHIEVE YESTERDAY?

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

And united, as fellow-Malaysians, we took to the streets in one voice to oppose what we consider a corrupt government. And we took to the streets not to do violence. We took to the streets as a demonstration of peace. That's what we gained yesterday. By Raja Petra Kamarudin of ...

FORMER MAS CHAIRMAN WON’T BE ENJOYING HIS HARI RAYA THIS YEAR

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

The article by Raja Petra Kamarudin that got the site blocked. It was posted at Malaysia Today on September 8, 2010. At presstime, readers can only access a low-bandwidth version of Malaysia Today. In the previous parts in this series of articles, Malaysia Today told you about how the former Chairman ...

THORNS IN THE FLESH

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Update: April 25, 9.30pm: Money talks in Barisan politics. P. Kamalanathan of Barisan Nasional (National Front) has won the Hulu Selangor (Selangor, Malaysia) by-election by defeating Datuk Zaid Ibrahim of the People's Alliance with a majority of 1,725 votes. Kamalanathan polled 24,997 votes against Datuk Zaid's 23,272 votes. Barisan had ...

KELANTAN 1977 REVISITED: TO UNDERSTAND SELANGOR 2010

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Malaysia is in the news. The BBC and others reported that a couple of churches in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, have been firebombed yesterday. Yet throughout the length and breadth of Malaysia, Muslims remained passive. So who exactly is behind the "unrest"? Raja Petra Kamarudin of Malaysia Today ...

PART 2: BALA’S PRISON WITHOUT BARS

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

On July 3, 2008, during the murder case of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaaribuu, Malaysian private investigator P. Balasubramaniam had made a statutory declaration indicating that (the then deputy prime minister) Najib Abdul Razak had a sexual relationship with Altantuya. Within 24 hours, he signed a second statutory declaration contradicting the ...

PART 1: THE PI, THE DEAD MODEL AND MALAYSIAN CORRIDORS OF POWER

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

On July 3, 2008, during the murder case of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaaribuu, Malaysian private investigator P. Balasubramaniam had made a statutory declaration indicating that (the then deputy prime minister) Najib Abdul Razak had a sexual relationship with Altantuya. Within 24 hours, he signed a second statutory declaration contradicting the ...

RAJA PETRA: CLOSET RACISTS IN ‘MALAYSIA TODAY’

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

A warrant of arrest was issued against blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin, editor of Malaysia Today, on April 23 when he did not turn up in court for his sedition trial. Raja Petra has not been arrested and his whereabouts continue to remain unknown although the police claim he is in ...

RAJA PETRA: MY MOST SINCERE APOLOGY TO THE NATION

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

On May 19, 2009, Raja Azman, the son of Malaysia Today's Raja Petra Kamarudin, pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and possession of a stolen motorcycle. Previously when Raja Azman got into trouble, the police called up Raja Petra to negotiate. As Raja Petra says: " I made it ...

HOW THE SCREWEE BECAME THE SCREWER

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

In the March 2008 Malaysian General Elections, the oppostion-led Pakatan Raykat (People's Alliance) emerged victorious in the state of Perak and formed the state government, with Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin as the chief minister. But by February 3, 2009, three assemblymen from Pakatan Rakyat declared themselves independent. Instead of holding a ...