PETALING JAYA, 12 Feb 2010: The Nut Graph‘s MP Watch: Eye on Parliament project is similar to a German web-based initiative where people can pose questions to their elected representatives in the national parliament or Bundestag. Screenshot of Abgeordnetenwatch.de Abgeordnetenwatch.de, which literally means “watching Members of Parliament”, was a grassroots effort started in Hamburg in [...]

THE Christian Federation of Malaysia strongly and unreservedly condemns the violent attacks and attempted fire-bombing of several churches in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya in the early hours of 8 Jan 2010. We are against such actions that seek to intimidate people and also to rend the country’s peace and fabric of goodwill. Thus far [...]

Level 26, with accompanying website “TO SEE the interrogation, log into LEVEL26.com and enter the code: violated.” I’m halfway through the digi-novel Level 26: Dark Origins. The note provides the code to access another cyber-bridge, an online video that’s part of the whole multi-platform literary experience. I put the book down, log into the website, [...]

PUTRAJAYA, 4 Aug 2009: The prime minister’s wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, today urged internet users to wisely screen information in cyberspace, and not be easily influenced with defamatory and seditious messages. She said this was because of the current trend where technological advancement was used to disseminate such messages. “The advancement in information technology [...]

PENANG, 20 May 2009: The Butterworth Sessions Court today fixed 19 June to mention a case of a couple charged with spreading an obscene comment on the Sultan of Perak on a website, http://books.dreambook.com/duli/duli.html. Judge Julie Lack Abdullah fixed the date to enable counsel Jagdeep Singh Deo, who represented Chan Hon Keong and wife, Khoo [...]

BUTTERWORTH, 15 April 2009: A housewife pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to spreading obscene comments on the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, on the Internet. Khoo Hui Shuang, 27, is charged with spreading the comments on the website http://books.dreambook.com/duli/duli.html , which is linked to the sultan’s office website, with her [...]