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2M ago
Or … “Who needs to be a crony when you can be a Royal Crony Pt 2”
Damansara, 6/12: Ten years ago, this blog published the article Who needs to be a crony when you can be a Royal crony? This was way before 3R (Race, Religion and Royalty) was a buzzword but we stuck to facts, we were careful not to be seditious in our writing, and we were fair in our comments. Unfortunately, the blogger and the players in the “royal JV” parted ways after the article, and subsequent articles, were published. The price of writing the truth and of trying to be champion of the larger and better interest ..read more
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3M ago
The King and U-Mobile and the tale of two brave Hassans
Kuala Lumpur, Nov 22: That the vocal YB Hassan Karim has been called up by his own party’s disciplinary committee for criticizing the PMX and the King recently. The PKR man is very likely going to be censored by the committee but whether the “punishment” for speaking out for the Rakyat as their elected representative will leave a mark on the Madani government, for sure.
And for our freedom of expression.
In the meantime, two weeks have gone since Perkasa, the Malay NGO, lodged a police report on claims made in the media that the Kin ..read more
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3M ago
“Nobody can silence you with a letter of demand. Unless what you have written or said was utter rubbish in the first place. “ - Defamation suit over stadium project: Parti Hijau’s Razak Ismail has no reason to whine unless …
KL, 29 Oct: That was what I wrote on my blog July 30 last year after Razak Ismail, the sacked PKR man, wouldn’t stop playing victim after he was sued for defamation. Well, last week (Oct 22) Razak apologized in court for defaming MRCB, the company appointed by the Selangor government to redevelop the Shah Alam stadium project.
He admitted at the Shah A ..read more
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4M ago
BUDGET 2025: Looking beyond the material world
(suggested pic of “Kopi”?)
17 Oct: At the Budget 2025 briefing for local editors in Putrajaya onTuesday, the Prime Minister was punctual as usual, shook hands with everyone, jovial.
And why not? Since re-taking the Finance Ministry portfolio two years ago (he was sacked as DPM and Finance Minister in 1998), the ringgit has been the region’s best performer, foreign investors have returned in droves, inflation and unemployment have been kept low. His war on corruption under the Madani banner is making many piss in their pants and bringing bac ..read more
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4M ago
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Oct 2: A bunch of journalists were talking the other night* about suspended Member of Parliament Wan ..read more
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5M ago
I wrote this piece for my column in scoop.my The edited version was published on the morning of 26 Sept 2024. Since then, BusinessToday has rectified their story by removing the reference to Reuters. People familiar with the matter told me that Reuters said they had not written at all about the King discussing HSR in China. The original report, Malaysia King to seek high-speed rail funds on China visit, came from Bloomberg and the same report was picked up by others including Straits Times (Singapore) and The Edge. Bloomberg said in the report that reps from YTL, one of the companies bid ..read more
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5M ago
Sept 4: In his column State of the nation: Headwinds for Malaysia Airlines today, Zainul Arifin didn’t ask for heads to roll.
The seasoned business journalist merely asked that the people helming the national carrier, the MAG, or better still Khazanah Nasional (the Prime Minister, unfortunately, is chairman of Khazanah) do a better job at telling us what is killing the airline, once the pride of all Malaysians.
“We are after all shareholders by virtue of Khazanah, and the carrier has the name of our country and flag emblazoned as livery on its planes … Even if we are busybodi ..read more
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6M ago
And just like that, we are ONE!
On Aug 8, 2023 we launched Big Boom Media and its flagship portal SCOOP.
A media company owned and run by thoroughbred newsmen.
Since then SCOOP has had younger siblings in the form of MOOSANG, our social media engagement platform; and podcast channel PODABOOM.
The journey has been fraught with challenges.
There were a lot of uncertainties and scepticism, if we could make it through our first year. But thanks to the support and help of all of you, we persevered.
There will be some changes in the coming weeks that will reflect the evolution o ..read more
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7M ago
Does the Malaysian PR industry really need a law to protect the good PR practitioners from the bad and ugly ones?
July 16: IPRM used to be the go-to body in Malaysia for all things public relations. Not any more. Not in a long while. I'm not sure why or what happened but was told that in recent times, the 62-year institute has kind of lost touch with practitioners.
Hence, when IPRM chief Jaffri Amin Osman went to The Sun to preach about PR morales and standards, and talked about pushing the government for some kind of legislation to govern and discipline the practitioners, the rest ..read more
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8M ago
JULY 1: We've heard and read of numerous stories where students with excellent results in their secondary school final exams did not get a place in matriculation colleges in local varisites. Allegedly, this happens because they are non Malays or if they are Malays their families are not well connected. Well, PM Anwar Ibrahim has assured Malaysians that they will not hear or read of such stories anymore. His Administration has peomised that ALL straight-As students will have places waiting for them at matriculation colleges in local universities.. Regardlessnof their race or backgeound, the PMX ..read more