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Najib's son in law

Sookie Stackhouse — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:52:57 +0800

The Opposition media is having a ball with the recent news on Daniyar Nazarbayev. In case you don’t who know he is, he is the former stepson of Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev’s brother (what a mouthful!) . More importantly, he also happens to be Najib Razak’s future son in law. The New York Post, citing court documents, claims that Daniyar allegedly conned his stepfather out of a US$20 million Plaza condo as well as his way into Columbia University.
FYI the New York Post has yet to actually publish the actual court documents. It kind of has the same feel when Suaram claimed that they had damning evidence on Scorpene but were unable to take it out of France.
How credible is New York Post anyway as it’s known for its sensationalized style of writing? Well, did you know that the New York Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who happened to be the owner of UK tabloid, News of the World. News of the World was forced to close due to public backlash and the withdrawal of advertising as a result of the phone hacking scandal in 2011. It was discovered that nearly a decade earlier, a private investigator hired by the newspaper had intercepted and deleted the voicemail of missing British teenager Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered. The scandal deepened when the paper was alleged to have hacked into the phones of families of British service personnel killed in action. Incidentally, the New York Post was also responsible for issuing an article, claiming that the hotel housekeeper Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexually assaulting was actually a prostitute. (The woman has since sued The Post)
Now as for academic fraud, note that Daniyar has graduated from Columbia. What is in dispute is his high school qualifications. Also note that Columbia was made aware of it and it appears that Daniyar was deem qualified to stay in the school. Perhaps he had to retake his SAT exam or maybe SAT scores were used for his admission in the first place? So he has now graduated from Columbia unless NYP is disputing that too?
Back to the case, as for academic fraud, note that Daniyar has graduated from Columbia. What is in dispute is his high school qualifications. Also note that Columbia was made aware of it and it appears that Daniyar was deem qualified to stay in the school. Perhaps he had to retake his SAT exam or maybe SAT scores were used for his admission in the first place? So he has now graduated from Columbia unless NYP is disputing that too?
It sounds like a marital dispute between ex-spouses. Bolat is not a kid, a power of attorney is a power of attorney. For him to now (2012) claim, he was under a different impression of what was supposed to be done in (2008) after their marriage is annulled in (2011) smacks of a stingy ex-spouse worming his way out of alimony. Read here

Foreign NGOS

Sookie Stackhouse — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:37:49 +0800

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It's been reported that foreign NGOs namely Kondrad Adenauer Foundation is apparently bankrolling pro-Anwar groups or even Anwar himself .

Should these foreign entities be "interfering" in our domestic politics to fulfil their own agenda?

Please read these articles to know what I'm talking about:

http://t.co/4nYwsCme

http://t.co/bBCLIvx1

325 Rally

Sookie Stackhouse — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:28:21 +0800

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Hot news for the week:
The United Chinese School Committe (Dong Zong) staged a rally on 25/3/12 on issues of monolingual education and shortages in traning of Chinese teachers. The deputy education minister was greeted with loud jeers calling for him to step down, and was almost punched by a person in the crowd.

http://t.co/zFSOuPJl

http://t.co/ziA9ZiE9

What are your views on this? Was the issue politicised?

Debate between Najib & Anwar

Sookie Stackhouse — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:37:29 +0800

As these below news articles highlighted, with the General Elections around the corner, voters are in favour of having regular debates between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim

http://bit.ly/wyLGof

http://bit.ly/zgbkdu

Najib had also mentioned in his blog that he is willing to argue politics with anyone reasonable and not with conspiracy theorists. A debate must be about competing visions of Malaysia's future.
http://bit.ly/x7H2f6

I'm sure the Opposition will be more than happy to have a debate. Given they have yet to publish a manifesto, settle their internal squabbles, appoint a Shadow cabinet I wonder what they will debate on? What are you views on this?

Anwar: Gay rights

Sookie Stackhouse — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:26:22 +0800

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Unless you're a "katak di bawah tempurong" many of you would have seen/read about Anwar's BBC's interview and his stand on gay rights.

What's your view on this? Would this affect who you'd vote for? Do you think he will follow through with amending gay rights if elected?