Yup! You heard that right! It’s Denmark! Personally, I have never heard any other tamil songs besides those from Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Germany, Canada and India but this video song is something new to me, especially from where it came from.

*Duh, can’t he get a pure tamil girl to perform?
*The title of the song is “Manam Virumputhe”

I’m not sure how many of you would have watched this BBC’s interview with Tun Dr.M which was aired recently but for those who missed it, well, it is a waste! Frankly speaking, the way this interview was conducted reminds me of the interview between the late Raghuvaran and Arjun in the film Mudhalvan but just that in this BBC interview, they were not talking about ‘be in my position’ or what-so-ever!

At one point, Stephen Sackur mentioned about the November 25th HINDRAF rally and Dr.M said “Why now, why not at my time?“. Stephen Sackur bravely replied “If people disagree with you, I’m afraid they would end up in jail“. ROFL! What a ‘pwned‘ reply!

Further questions asked by Stephen Sackur was about the Anwar issue, the critics issue, the western issue, the NEP issue and so forth! So, to all of you out there, please take your precious time to check out the first part of the interview below!

KUALA LUMPUR, MON: The PAS national Youth movement today demanded the Home Ministry (KDN) to reconsider its decision not to renew the publication license for Tamil newspaper, Makkal Osai.

PAS Youth chief Salahuddin Ayub said the KDN should consider the fate of the 102 employees of the company if the decision was to be maintained, besides showing proof and concrete evidence on the mistakes committed by the newspapers.

He said this after leading a PAS Youth delegation on a visit to the Makkal Osai office and a dialogue with the newspaper’s management at the Kompleks Batu, Jalan Ipoh, here. Also present was Makkal osai News Editor, B.R. Rajan.

On Thursday, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said that the government had decided not to renew the publication license of Makkal Osai after finding that the newspaper had on several occasions breached the media guidelines stipulated.

Rajan said that so far the newspaper had not received any feedback from the ministry after making an appeal on the same day.

Source: NST

Albeit PAS has nothing to do with ‘Makkal Osai’, at least they are coming forward to voice out their concerns pertaining to the permit renewal matter of Makkal Osai. The same has been done by the Angkatan Muda Keadilan Malaysia (AMK), DAP and the Centre for Independent Journalism. Uncle Sam knows very well that his voice is no longer being heard and thus, this is what he gotta say:

At least do something. 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing!

Thanks to “Logan” for submitting these photos via email. The following images were captured during the “Chitra Pournami” celebration at Port Klang on 19th April 2008. If you guys noticed, the first picture itself shows a MAKKAL SAKTHI PORT KLANG ‘panthal’.

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Dear friends,

While today’s papers hailed as the step forward the Prime Minister’s speech in restoring the judiciary and bringing to a close the sacking of Tun Salleh Abbas and other eminent judges, the fact is the government is still in its old state! The abrupt banning of Tamil Makkal Osai proves the high-handed, non-transparent and non-consultative manner in the administration is yet to be cracked!

Let’s all of us send an email to Syed Hamid Albar, the new minister of home affairs urging him to lift the ban on Makkalosai and explain on what basis it breached the guidelines. Stop him from his total discretionary power over press freedom and the people’s right to information!

You can send an email with just the following subject line and CC to us at CIJ for us to follow up

To:

CC:

Subject:
“Explain why you denied the permit and lift the ban on Makkal Osai”

Your email can do a lot for press freedom.

V. Gayathry
Centre for Independent Journalism

IPOH (17/4) – A young girl launched police report against a Police Officer and other Police Personnel’s on the complaint that she was manhandled, usage of vulgar words and sexually harassed while she was under investigation at the Police Station at Ipoh. The 24 years old women stated in her report that the police picked up her from Balai Police Menglembu on the 02/04/08 at 02.00am after she made a Police report stating her motorbike no: AGJ 102 was missing. Mariammah, a mother of 2, was remanded for 2 weeks to help on a murder case on which, usage of the missing motorbike in the murder case.

The Policeman who came with other male officers arrested her and took her with police car with male police officers only. She was remanded till 13/04/08 and the Police officers started to torture her since 05/04/08 till 08/04/08 for no reason. Mariamah also alleged that the Policeman also kicked her back and hips several times and blindfolded her when this beating was taking place. Also she says the police forced her to admit that her husband was involved in the murder case which happens few days earlier before her arrest. The Police arrested and forced her to agree with the accusation. After few hours another policeman came and tortured her verbally and told her she would be striped naked if did not agreed.

Soon after she was released on 13/04/08, she came to Ipoh Barat office to inform the incident and asked Mr.Kulasegaran (DAP - Ipoh Barat) for help. Mr.Kula, with his secretary, took her to lodge a police report and at that time, the computers were all down! After half an hour when a senior police officer came, the system was on again.

THE POLICE REPORT BELOW:
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