If my posting entitled If Pak Lah is Leaving, Why is a ‘Level Four Boys’ Still in Command? on October 3rd reached the occupants of Ethos Consulting, there must be commotion there.

Anti-government blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin went on trial yesterday, on sedition charges over an article he allegedly posted on his popular Malaysia Today website.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi, who is set to announce the end of his career as national leader tomorrow, had a rather plain and unexciting career as an inoffensive, unambitious and likeable man who was promoted into power by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad who had wanted a plodding short-term successor.

By Debra Chong, The Malaysian Insider

Sessions Court judge SM Komathy Suppiah has ruled against the prosecution's application to transfer Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's Sodomy II trial to the High Court.

Kalau ilham itu diperolehi menerusi istiqarakah apa boleh buat lagi, Zahid kena akur saja kalau tidak beliau akan ketulahan. Peluang dalam politik jarang menjelma dua kali biasanya sekali saja untuk seorang individu.

ANTARA KITA

Oleh MOHD SAYUTI OMAR

Di alkesahkan maka orang-orang kampung pun berkumpulah untuk melihat dan melangok. Maka gendang pun di palu dan canang di pukul. Ada yang mencangkung ada yang berdiri melihat gelagat segala peri.

DARI JELEBU

Hishamuddin Rais

How do we create this new Malay mind – out of the ruins of a dying ultra-nationalist Malay ideology no longer in sync with the principles and progress of neuroscience in the age of deconstructionism brought about by high-speed Internet access and nano-technology?

Azly Rahman
http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/

This sort of writing or writer/blogger should not surprise us. They litter the media landscape in our country. It reminds me of the heydays of the Cold War when the CIA used novelists, academics and journalists to spread the word. Stalin and Hitler too did the same thing when they temporarily held the reins of power. It is happening now in our country under a discredited UMNO-led Barisan Nasional Government.

By JULIA ZAPPEI,Associated Press Writer AP

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The editor of Malaysia's best-known anti-government news Web site went on trial Monday on sedition charges for allegedly implying the deputy prime minister was involved in the murder of a Mongolian woman.

AGENCIES, KUALA LUMPUR

A popular Malaysian blogger yesterday pleaded not guilty to sedition over an article he wrote that linked the deputy prime minister and his wife to the murder of a Mongolian woman.

By Hafidz Baharom,  The Nut Graph

The Hari Raya holiday was "very long" this year. It was not because of the uncertain Umno power transition plan but because of other problems.

Kota Kinabalu: Village chiefs were exploited by certain quarters as far back as the eighties to attest to the residential status of non-locals infiltrating into the Kawang constituency.

(Suara Keadilan) - Presiden Umno, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi akan mempertahankan jawatannya dalam pemilihan pucuk pimpinan parti itu pada Mac 2009 nanti.

I fear that my friend will be driven to court tomorrow only to see dwindling numbers of friends there to greet him.

By Ian McIntyre, The Star

KOTA BARU: Veteran Umno politician Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has discussed with PAS, DAP and PKR leaders the possibility of forming a national unity Federal Government as a way out of the current political and economic stalemate.

The trial of blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin, charged with publishing a seditious article in his blog, began at the Sessions Court here today, with an expert witness called to testify.

IPOH: The city’s “Little India” is shaping out to be the scene of a battle for two political parties fighting for the right to hold their own grand Deepavali celebration.