BELUM sampai 24 jam arwah Yasmin Ahmad selamat dikebumikan, muka depan akhbar harian Kosmo! telah membuat pendedahan tentang sejarah peribadinya. Pada hari yang sama, 27 Julai 2009, majalah hiburan Mangga Online juga membuat “pendedahan” yang sama melalui wartawannya, Rosli Manah. Yang anehnya, bahagian laporan Mangga Online yang menyentuh sejarah peribadi Yasmin itu telah dikeluarkan dari [...]

THE media are at it again. Sensationalising the news, reporting inaccurately and unfairly, and worst of all, having no regard for the personal damage a report may have on a party. The latest of irresponsible and unethical reporting was in Kosmo!‘s 27 July 2009 edition that front-paged celebrated filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad who passed away from [...]

I WAS not disturbed at all by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad‘s recent communalist remarks that Malay Malaysians have been marginalised after sharing the country with “outsiders”. While I applaud the powerful critiques by the likes of Dr Toh Kin Woon, I do not share the anger and disappointment many Malaysians feel. I certainly do not [...]