THE MINISTER OF HOME Affairs, Dato' Seri Azmi Khalid, will not go to China as planned tomorrow. China has told him to sort out the mess in his department in two weeks, and come afterwards. The government was caught flatfooted when the MMS videoclip of a naked Chinese woman doing the ear squat was published. The police predictably have gone after the person who took the videoclip ...

AFTER 45 YEARS IN journalism, I have been told to join the people who run this country. I should be concentrating on other issues, like the poor. I said the poor in this country is poorer because of the policies now carried out. Another in the group said an average person in authority would not feel comfortable unless he has RM50 million in assets ...

THERE IS EMBARASSED FACES in the Police as the Prime Minister has ordered an investigation of how a naked woman came to do the ear squat in a police cell. The Deputy IGP, Dato' Musa Hassa, however, wants to find out how the MMS videoclip came to be taken. He has eaten his words now that Pak Lah had said the incident must be investigated. If the former deputy prime minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, could be beaten to a pulp by no less than the then IGP, Dato' Rahim Noor, what about the ordinary man in the street? Dato' Rahim Noor justified beating Dato' Seri Anwar because the latter, trussed up, had hurled the word 'anjing' for beating him up ...

THE CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS FROM the Police suggest the ear squat is authorised by the IGP Standing Orders, and is therefore allowed. So what is the fuss? The police give out its information little by little, but they have said, in effect, it has done nothing wrong. The MMS videoclip is therefore not an issue at all. After all, the police have said in effect that a woman caught for leaving her passport at home could also be a drug carrier ...

IF THERE WAS A CHANCE of Chinese tourists coming to Malaysia, the latest videoclip has made sure they will not. Pak Lah has ordered the Home Affairs Minister, Dato' Seri Azmi Khalid, to tell Chinese authorities that this will not happpen in future. Malaysia does not welcome Asian or African visitors. They are harassed at the immigration counters at the airport, although they have valid visas ...

THE BYELECTIONS FOR THE Pengkalen Pasir state assembly constituency in Kelantan is the first since the general elections last year. The result will make no difference to who governs Kelantan but the main political parties involved, the National Front though practically UMNO, and PAS are treating it as a matter of life or death. UMNO has called for the state government to resign if it wins, though why the PAS government should not when it can rule the state whatever the result. It was Tun Mahathir who said he would remain prime minister even if the National Front won by one seat ...

THERE AUSTRALIAN OUTCRY ON Singapore's anticipated hanging of an Australian of Vietnamese origin is expected. There was a similar outcry over Malaysia hanging two Australian Caucasians. There is no difference in the outcry. The Australians have found reasons for the media that the trials were unfair ...

POLICE STRIPPING CHINESE TOURISTS is the issue. The visas were valid. Not even the authorities dispute that. Because of what happened to those with valid visa, the Chinese tourists are not coming here ...

THE BIRD FLU, ONE of sixteen strains of the HN virus, has been known for a century. One strain killed six million people in the aftermath of the First World War, but most have lied dormant or would not mutate to affect humans worldwide. The bird flu is in our minds, and we rush to get ourselves and our children infected against it for no reason than to make the pharmaceutical companies rich and the Western countries their peace of mind. The present attitude is that others can die but the Westerner should not ...

THE CHINESE TOURISTS ARE not coming to Malaysia. It has dropped to 49 per cent less, if you compare the statistics with the traffic in the first six months of 2004 and 2005, and to 65 per cent less, if you compare the figures of the first nine months of last year and this. As the tourism minister and his officials plan to go to China and find out why, the result for the decline is in the Malaysian newspapers. The police stripped four Chinese national women, three of them married to Malaysian citizens, after they were arrested for not having papers on them, the mainstream newspapers said ...

APEC LEADERS MEETING IN Busan, South Korea, discussed, among other subjects, bird flu. Less people die a year of bird flu than a day in the United States of car accident deaths. Indeed, more people die of car accidents around the world, even in APEC, in a day than bird flu in a year; police and military brutality around the world is much serious and prevalent than bird flu, but we do not see APEC, or any regional or international body, discussing it. The world spins on corruption, and it affects us all; yet the matter is not discussed seriously in any international forum ...

THE GRAVE HAS BEEN DUG at the National Mosque, and those who went to the National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur were told it is for the former deputy prime minister, Tun Ghafar Baba, now in Pantai hospital where is undergoing medical treatment. He is weak. He has been out of ICU for about ten days, and looks poorly. He may not survive his stay in hospital, as Tun Razak did not in a London hospital, but the officials have decided he would not return from hospital alive ...

THE RIOTS IN FRANCE, of which there is much in television these days, has paralysed not just France and the Western world. I have yet to hear the argument that Muslim youths rioted as digits of the global war on terror against Islam. It may not be, and it could be just the reasons the French have so far given. But one cannot escape from the reason that is not stated ...

THE FURORE OVER AN ambassador's memoir is creating a scene in London. Sir Christopher Meyers had submitted his draft of DC Confidential, to be vetted, as Sir Jeremy Greenstock's was. Sir Jeremy was head of the British delegation to the UN and took part in the runup to the war in Iraq, and is now in Iraq. It was made clear that Sir Jeremy's account was not what he would write; the book was published with parts removed ...

AL QAEDA has said it is responsible for the bomb attacks on three American-owned hotels in Jordon. The Americans call this group Al Qaeda in Iraq. If you listen or read what they have to say or write, they do not tell you the most important fact: that as the war on terror on Muslims is worldwide, the response is too. They ignore this, and suggest the Jordanian Arabs were the ones most affected. But 100,000 Iraqis have died in American bombing ...

THE FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL OF rural development, Dato' Abdul Aziz Mahmud, was found guilty for diverting funds meant for the hardcore poor. The Star reports that he is believed to be the first man of his rank to be found guilty. But civil servants who take orders from politicians face that possibility. The money was missing, but it was transferred to the minister at that time ...

AL-QAEDA SUICIDE BOMBERS ARE blamed for bombing three Amman hotels. Abu Musab Al-Zarkawi, who is believed to be dead, is the agent directly responsible, the television news and talk shows try desperately to inform the world that this bombings are the trade mark of Al-Qaeda. There is great effort to blame Al-Qaeda for the bombing although there is no hard evidence. But the United States and others have decided that Al-Qaeda is responsible ...

THE HEALTH MINISTER, DATO' Chua Soi Lek, is the latest buffoon in the Malaysian cabinet. He says statements he does not believe in or mean, and blames others for the state of affairs for which the National Front government, of which he is a member, is responsible. He blames government scholars, especially in medicine, for staying put in their country of study after graduation. Does he really mean that? Those on government scholarship has to have a gurantor, usually the father or a blood relative ...

THERE IS WORLD WIDE interest these days in bird flu as there was four years ago of bio-terrorism, each threatening, so health authorities maintained, the deaths of millions of people. Bio terrorism did not come to pass. Neither will bird flu. The only beneficiaries will be the pharmaceutical companies and the authorities who keep their people glued to television sets so that they can do as they like ...

IF THE MAYOR HAS been defamed in a book, he should have taken the author to court. Instead, the police showed they could do as they liked, decided that defamining the mayor was a threat to national security, began investigating two senior City Hall officials and the author, and jailed them for about a week - like common criminals. They should have done so after the mayor has won his action in court, if he dared take it. Even then, the police acting, as they have done, is illegal ...

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