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Life’s Little Jokes

Strangely enough a day after writing about Corruption in Malaysia, I got stopped by a ‘roadblock’ on MRR2 at about 1.30am. It didn’t look particularly official and I don’t think they even had a speedtrap set-up, they were just fishing for bribes. I thought this when I pulled up, but it was soon confirmed.. The […]

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Corruption – You bribe too DON’T YOU – It’s all YOUR Fault

Now this is an interesting topic…and it comes back to the same old subject again sadly. Malaysia hypocrisy and apathy. It’s a fairly serious topic, but one that comes up fairly often. It’s somewhat confusing as a foreigner in Malaysia, especially at first, trying to comprehend the Malaysian mind-set. At first Malaysians seems like patriotic […]

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Red Book – The Police and Your Basic Rights in Malaysia

More than 60 lawyers and representatives from NGOs, the US Embassy and the press gathered at the Bar Council Auditorium this morning, all for a very noble cause, to witness the birth of a Red Book or Buku Merah known as “Polis Dan Hak-Hak Asas Anda”. The malaysian bar council recently launched a publication titled […]

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