Female litigators dressed as pirates, and in spaghetti-straps?!
Posted inExpress Yourself
Sarawak’s Low Voter Registration Problems: A Response to EC
For over half a century, the problem of low voter registration among Sarawakians has not been solved or is it intended to keep those under-registered groups from voicing their choice in the state’s and the country’s leadership?
Posted inSelected Exhortations
PASOC On BFM
On 8 January 2011, Audrey Quay and Shanmuga Kanesalingam appeared on BFM’s “The Incident Room” to talk about LoyarBaca’s “Perak: A State of Crisis.”
Posted inStupid Me!
Esperanto Trains Polyglots
Do you believe one can learn a language within 200 hours of studies? If you think so, please read on. However, if you do not think so, please surf to the other pages of LoyarBurok.
Posted inOAsli & OAsal
High Court Decides in Favour of Ibans in Another Historic NCR Case
The Kuching High Court found that the Provisional Lease issued covers or includes or impairs the Plaintiffs’ rights over the said native customary land therein was null and void as it violated the Plaintiffs’ rights enshrined under Article 13 (1) of the Federal Constitution and Section 15 (1) of the Sarawak Land Code Cap. 81.
Posted inJudging the Judges
Speedy Gone Justice!
A hard critical look at the Chief Justice’s apparent initiatives to revamp legal practice, and some questions for his Lordship to think about.
Posted inTalking about Lawyers
LoyarBorak #7: Podcast On Young Lawyers’ Working Conditions
Richard Wee, Olivia Loh, and Kenneth Wong discuss Young Lawyers’ Working Conditions.
Posted inOAsli & OAsal
Who Are The Aggressors?
On the 18th Feb, 2011, 100 armed thugs camped at Rumah Ranggong, Sarawak with explosives & parangs, over a land dispute between the longhouse and an oil palm company. Now the villagers are being accused as the aggressors by the local press.
Posted inWomen Rule
Two Women, Two Tribes and a Journey of a Lifetime (Part VIII)
He laughed along good naturedly as soon as he realised that the cat had been led out of the bag. The sparkle in his eyes told me that he is an intelligent man with a great sense of humour. I asked him for his name and he told me he is Uleketele and I wrote it down immediately on my notebook. From then onwards, he would often come to me and asked me to show him his name on my notebook and to read it out loud. It delighted him immensely to look at his own name, written in Roman alphabets and hearing the sound of it from a farenji’s mouth.
Posted inExpress Yourself
Why Some Malaysians Are “Ignorant”
Why are some Malaysians “dumb”? Because … A. they are brought up to do only what their elders tell them they should or can do. B. they fear something “bad” might happen to them. C.they are trapped in the “confort zone”. D. they believe one person is insignificant. E. All of the above?
Posted inLet's Talk About Sex
#LoyarBerkasih In The Selangor Times!
#LoyarBerkasih goes hard-print, as the Selangor Times features excerpts from Avie Azis’ “Flight From Incheon.”
Posted inPeeping Toms
Right to Privacy in Malaysia: Do we have it?
If someone installs a CCTV in front of your house, can you stop him from doing so? If our Prime Minister sends his best wishes for the festive seasons to your email and mobile, is he invading your privacy? Whats the state of the right to privacy, and invasions of your privacy, in Malaysia?
Posted inTalking about Lawyers
LLA Series: The Attorney General’s Chambers must improve
Thoughts about the exercise of the Attorney General’s Chambers discretion to prosecute, its financial accountability, its lack of prudence, a quote from Dershowitz, Bangladeshis charged for sodomy and a brief description of a criminal trial.
Posted inTalking about Lawyers
Justice on a Coin Flip?
The burden faced by lawyers is matched by none other than the glee on the face of the exalted ones when they announce how many cases have been summarily disposed. Of course it is carefully engineered to look as if justice was served. Cold, raw dish indeed.
Posted inGreen-World
Forum on Climate Change: A Catastrophe in the Making
KL Bar Environmental and Humanities Committee (EHC) is organising a 1-day Forum on Climate Change: A Catastrophe in the Making on 22 February 2011.
Posted inThank God It's Friday
White Noise: Tribal Seduction
Desperate to allay fears that he has turned into a teenage girl from listening to Taylor Swift, Chen Mian Kuang reaffirms his macho-ness by first drawing your attention to two albums brimming with phallic symbolism before heaping accolades on the said Ms Swift.
Posted inBolehland
People’s Call for Regime Change – Part 2
The People’s Judge continues his call to the young to use the tools of modern communication to effect change in Malaysia, pointing out how we are stuck with a government using 19th century British colonial laws to further repress us.
Posted inBolehland
Water Management in Malaysia: Liberalizing Public Utilities (Part 2)
In this second and concluding part, we see Why the government harms sustainable usage of water and the harms of privatization. Read Part 1 first!
Posted inTalking about Lawyers
Of Learning: Lessons From My First Year
A young lawyer reflects on her first year of practice, and on the journey of learning.
Posted inBolehland
People’s Call for Regime Change – Part 1
The People’s Judge reflects on the turmoil in the Middle East – a people’s revolution inspired by the power of the new media on the internet such as Facebook and Twitter – and the lessons for us in Malaysia.