Malaysia: Rich but not free
By The Jakarta Post The leaders of Malaysia are laboring under an old paradigm that says you can have development or democracy, but not both. We have news for them: You can be rich and free at the…
Anti-Bersih group holds Najib to ransom
(The Malaysian Insider) - Anti-Bersih supporters have mounted a petition online, threatening to abandon its support for Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s administration if the prime minister fails to revoke…
Malaysia lashes out at foreign media coverage of rally
By Melissa Goh, ChannelnewasiaWhile the police are contemplating possible legal action against some of the 1,600 protesters who were arrested on Saturday, they claimed that all detainees were…
DAP: Punish Ibrahim, Ali Rustam for attacking Ambiga
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — DAP today demanded that the government act against Perkasa’s Datuk Ibrahim Ali and Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali…
Purported anti-Bersih script surfaces online
By Yow Hong Chieh, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — Popular website Malaysia Today today leaked what appears to be a letter from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with guidelines on…
Bersih 2.0 in San Francisco
By Robert LeongSAN FRANCISCO - After the sun set on a historic day of unprecedented show of people power in Malaysia, one of the last of the global Bersih 2.0 rallies was just about to begin in San…
Good Things that Came Out of Bersih 2.0 Rally
By Kee Thuan Chye WHAT the Bersih 2.0 rally of July 9 has shown is that Malaysians of all races are willing to risk arrest to speak up for their rights; that Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali is…
Utusan Malaysia: Bersih protesters paid, businesses disrupted
People buying drinksBrisk business for ice cream manBy Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — Utusan Malaysia continued today to demonise Bersih 2.0 and its Saturday rally,…
Seeking support for Ops Scorpene fund raising dinner
Ops Scorpene is a fundraising and awareness campaign to further pursue the case in the French courts as a national issue. It seeks to instil interest amongst Malaysians to question arms spending and…
Ibrahim Ali wants Ambiga’s citizenship revoked
By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — Datuk Ibrahim Ali wants Bersih 2.0 chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan’s citizenship revoked, saying she had committed treason against…
Marina Mahathir: Putrajaya’s image affected by bad handling of Bersih
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal, The Malaysian Insider The government’s poor handling of the Bersih rally has given it a bad image internationally, Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir said yesterday.
Foreign media praises rally marchers, condemns govt
By Patrick Lee, FMT PETALING JAYA: Foreign media organisations have praised the “bersih spirit” and roundly condemned the government’s handling of the July 9 Bersih 2.0 (Coalition for Free and Fair…
The Best of Bersih
ART HARUNIn so far as Bersih is concerned, I am done lecturing on the concept of fundamental liberties and the rights of the people. I am done writing about the true concept of social contract and the…
PSM holds Najib accountable for Jeyakumar’s well-being
By Yow Hong Chieh, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) has said it will hold the prime minister and police responsible if anything happens to central…
Artists, writers band up in Samad Said’s cause
They condemn police for harassing the poet and vow to keep fighting for freedom of expression.(Free Malaysia Today) - Scores of writers, artists and political activists have banded together to…
9th July — The Proudest Day for Malaysians
By Thomas Lee Seng Hock MCA president Chua Soi Lek has again put himself and his party in a very awkward, embarrassing and contradicting poistion by endorsing the Umno Youth street demonstration…
BERSIH VIDEO: Firing on the Rakyat
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I am proud to be Malaysian
This was my inaugural march, it will not be my last. I wasn’t paid to go. I guess that’s why the red-shirts show fizzled out. Perhaps there wasn’t enough money thrown around? By May Chee Chook Ying…
Malaysians Passed The Test, Brilliantly!
M. Bakri Musa I would have thought that after the debacle of 1997 with the grossly inept handling of the reformasi demonstrations, and again a decade later with HINDRAF, the UMNO government would…
The day I was tear-gassed by my Government
The Sarawak contingent was led by YB Baru Bian and YB See Chew How.By Being Vernon Even as I write this, the after-effects of being exposed to tear gas earlier today are still lingering; a throbbing…
The Day I Walked for Electoral Reforms
As I was running past the gates of the hospital, I saw two tear gas canisters hurtling towards me from the skies. By the time they landed, I was already some distance away. Out of nowhere, this…
Why did I join Bersih 2.0?
Yes, if we are not satisfied with the current government, we can always vote them out in the next general election. But how are we going to do that when our election is not as free and fair as we…
Someone Did Win on July 9th
I went to the rally as a spectator. I returned a believer. And I had ice cream with the FRU. By Charis Ding
Questions surround Baharudin’s death despite police denial
(Harakah Daily) - KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 11: The family of the late Baharudin Ahmad, one of the protesters at Bersih's massive rally on Saturday whose funeral was attended by Pakatan Rakyat top leaders…
Terror funders under watch
By Terence Fernandez, The Sun PUTRAJAYA (July 10, 2011): The registrar of societies (ROS) has a new role to play – identify societies that are being used as a front to fund terrorism activities.
