KUALA LUMPUR, 20 March — A group of civil society organisations is asking for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) following the covert video by Global Witness implicating Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and his family in shady land deals, reports Zurairi AR of The Malaysian Insider.
Constant C examines the life and times of Stéphane Hessel, whose book Time for Outrage inspired the Los Indignados movement in Spain, the forerunner to the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring.
Years of speculation as to who drafted private investigator P Balasubramaniam’s second statutory declaration dramatically came to a close on 16 March 2013 at the Bar Council’s 67th annuel general meeting when Bala’s lawyer, Americk Sidhu, revealed the identity of the person.
Martin Jalleh looks at Najib’s four years of ‘fine performance’ and outlines what the PM has really delivered.
A Global Witness documentary has exposed behind-the-scenes corrupt deal-making in Sarawak in a video featuring an investigator posing as a ‘potential investor’ meeting Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s relatives and well-connected lawyers.
Choo Sing Chye wonders what happened to Dr Chandra Muzaffar’s idealism which inspired many.
Far from being discredited in the public eye, ‘DSAI’ has grown much closer to the common folk than when Mahathir made him a ‘martyr’ of sorts.
Private investigator P Balasubramaniam’s death is a national tragedy for truth and justice.