tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40684022011-04-21T14:21:15.227-07:00Screenshots...<B>Thinking Allowed, THINKING <U>ALOUD</U>.</b>
<br><p><img src="http://www.malaysiakini.com/images/jeffooi_screenshots.gif"></p><p>Jeff Ooi is the founder of <a href="http://www.usj.com.my">USJ.com.my</A>, a grassroot-managed portal targetting Malaysia's K-generation.</p>
<P>He is an e-business consultant for vertical industries, an Open Source advocate, and a columnist for a business journal.</P>
<P><B><a href="mailto:jeffooi@webranet.net">Email Jeff Ooi</a></B></P>Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comBlogger3651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1086065089478648172004-05-31T21:42:00.000-07:002004-05-31T21:44:49.476-07:00The engine overhaul at my own server is now completed.
You may view Screenshots with its interactive commentaries from readers at www.jeffooi.com from now.
Sorry for the inconvenience inthe last 5 days or so.Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1086044508613443362004-05-31T15:36:00.000-07:002004-05-31T16:20:36.703-07:00NST loses more readers
The latest report from Nielsen Media Research (NMR) indicates that the No. 3 English Paper (daily circulation 135,000) has lost another 13.3% in daily readership since Kalimullah Masheerul Hassan took over as the Group EIC on January 1.
Significantly, the pull of gavity was at work. The 2004 general election and the high-octane spin-doctoring around the announcement of Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1086042745093232632004-05-31T15:09:00.000-07:002004-05-31T19:19:21.650-07:00Pak Lah: 'Don't deprive the 128 top-scorers'
We are still staring at the plight of 128 students who obtained straight A's in their examination but have failed to get admission to pursue medicine in public universities.
Was PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi shown - the rakyat weren't - the list of 128 top-scorers and their Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) details? Were the affected students from Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085980469893722212004-05-30T21:48:00.000-07:002004-05-31T04:35:56.666-07:00Prayers from Beijing: 'Big Brothers and Mainstream Press unite!'
Big Brothers of mainstream papers unite!
That's the holy grail a Big Businessmen's Journalist (borrowing from Pak Kadir's stereotyping) discovered while in the land of ex-communists. Was it because of Das Kapital? I'm not sure.
Significantly, with the revelation last Sunday, Star's Wong Sulong, NexNews' Ho Kay Tat and P. Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085964434070909062004-05-30T17:38:00.000-07:002004-05-30T21:40:36.456-07:00'Brain-deaditis' sabotaging meritocracy system
To the pundits, 128 is a very 'ong' number that is perceived to promise prosperity and good fortune.
But not for our 128 top-scoring students in STPM and matriculation examinations. They have been denied admissions into medical courses at our public universities (IPTA) under the meritocracy system. All 128 of them.
In fact, the best student in Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085963604964251402004-05-30T17:24:00.000-07:002004-05-30T17:36:55.883-07:00Mandarin 'rojak'
"Wo de sejarah fail le!"
That utterance, which means "I failed my history paper" is the type of Mandarin spoken by today's secondary students.
It's made up of three languages. Minister of Transport Chan Kong Choy terms it as 'Rojak Mandarin'.
He suggests the Malaysian Mandarin Standardisation Committee set up by the Ministry of Information look into the matter to prevent Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085875093456292772004-05-29T16:54:00.000-07:002004-05-29T17:02:16.886-07:00'I'm tall and white, not short and Indian'
That's an amusing headline in Singapore Sunday Times today.
It's a remark by Miss Universe hopeful, Gabriela Oviedo, 21, who caused a furore in Bolivia, one of the Western hemisphere's poorest countries. She has been accused of being racist and pressured to withdraw from the beauty pageant.
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Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085874635644093152004-05-29T16:30:00.000-07:002004-05-29T17:14:50.796-07:00Enemies in our own backyard
Two hot issues that need urgent clarification:
Nuclear arms black market: The arrest of B.S.A. Tahir, the Sri Lankan businessman accused of brokering black-market deals for nuclear technology, who has been detained in Malaysia under Section 8(1) of the Internal Security Act and Section 43(a) of the Federal Constitution.
New evidence has been unearthed. But what's Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085807053262281592004-05-28T21:51:00.000-07:002004-05-28T23:33:03.716-07:00Centrifuge figure placed under ISA
B.S.A. Tahir, the Sri Lankan businessman accused of brokering black-market deals for nuclear technology, has been detained under the Internal Security Act in Malaysia yesterday, reports AFP.
However, the agency does not say under which section of the Act he is being held, except by stating that he was a threat to national security because of his activities andJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085792925200798722004-05-28T18:06:00.000-07:002004-05-28T21:49:02.130-07:00Corporate governance? Wrong place!
We are very much a third-world country as far as boardroom behaviour is concerned - both in form and substance.
A new study by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Malaysia’s top 50 largest companies failed to make the grade in corporate governance disclosures.
The survey, using the ratings agency’s corporate governance Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085792364114551652004-05-28T17:31:00.000-07:002004-05-28T23:41:42.733-07:00theSun: "Khairy a spin-doctor who fails himself"
Oon Yeoh writes in his column in theSun Weekend titled: Sitting cool on hot seat:
It's ironic that Khairy (Jamaluddin) hasn't been able to manage the maelstrom of criticism because one of hos roles was communications chief.
He spun a fantastic image for Pak Lah ahead of the general election - just look at the poll results - but somehow failed to Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085723730121275532004-05-27T22:55:00.000-07:002004-05-28T01:50:20.253-07:00NST hit by tabloiditis?
May 27, The Economist reported that New Straits Times officials recently paid a visit to The Independent's office in London to study its success story in publishing a tabloid edition for the broadsheet.
In Europe, broadsheets that usually look down on tabloids - exemplified by The Sun UK's Page 3 Girls - are now rushing to downsize - the print format that is.
In Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085718481372644522004-05-27T21:21:00.000-07:002004-05-27T23:18:24.593-07:00MiTV: Malaysian-Israeli tie-up in technology?
Was there a technology tie-up between MiTV - the touted second Pay-TV operator bankrolled by tycoon Vincent Tan - and an Israeli broadcast solutions company?
Information unearthed by a little bird revealed that MiTV Malaysia was credited as a planned beta site for Runcom Technologies Ltd, an Israeli company specialising in Digital Video Broadcast Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085709620490277712004-05-27T18:59:00.000-07:002004-05-27T19:51:43.643-07:00Higher Education: The messy-go-round
We talk of university admission by meritocracy, but the bureaucracy and the media approach it by race!
1. Headline in No. 3 English paper: Bumis continue to do well.
Bumiputera students secured more than 60 per cent of the 38,892 places in public universities, continuing to flourish under the merit system introduced two years ago.
But they did not do as Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085708587829531092004-05-27T18:18:00.000-07:002004-05-28T02:46:38.830-07:00Appointments for Umno and MCA seniors
Malaysia is no longer a parochial village. Current Umno and Barisan Nasional secretary general Khalil Yaakob has been appointed the sixth Governor of Melaka effective June 4.
Khalil will serve a 4-year term. He is a native from Pahang.
Port of Call. Former MCA vice-president and current Serdang MP Yap Pian Hon has been appointed the Klang Port Authority Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085704051774639932004-05-27T17:06:00.000-07:002004-05-27T17:38:35.140-07:00May 28, 3rd Anniversary
If you have been reading into the psyche of Chinese-Malaysians in the last three years, you would have noticed that May 28 is remembered as a "Black Day" for the community.
Three years ago today, MCA under the Ling Liong Sik leadership clinched the deal to takeover two major Chinese dailies - Nanyang Siang Pau and China Press - through the party’s Huaren Management for Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085640197729129972004-05-26T23:37:00.000-07:002004-05-26T23:45:26.606-07:00Pak Lah goes on China trip
Today, PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi begins his 5-day visit to China to commemorate the 30 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Looking at the who-is-who in the entourage, may he have a fruitful and fulfilling trip.
Both countries have progressed by leaps and bounds since Razak's first trip in 1974. We must be doing things differently compared withteh Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085633282501953892004-05-26T21:45:00.000-07:002004-05-28T02:29:54.896-07:00This blog should have gone up yesterday for timeliness, but held-over due to server hiccups. I will save it in the overall archive when I am ready to bring up the co-lo server, so that you can do keyword search in the future.
MiTV no threat to ASTRO
Do you think the head-on competition between two gaming tycoons will happen over the Pay-TV market, thus ending the de facto monopoly? Or worse, Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-1085572112056750162004-05-26T04:31:00.000-07:002004-05-26T19:24:42.113-07:00Screenshots experiencing server problems
One year and 5 days after Screenshots migrated to its own server, I have to return to this Google-Blogger.com old site to update the blogs. The co-lo server that hosts Screenshots has been experiencing irregular activities since 2.15pm today. After consulting my webhost, I have decided to take it down, together with my other server, to do a thorough Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-946713542003-05-20T22:29:00.000-07:002003-05-20T23:15:12.000-07:00NOTICE:
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Eclipse of theSun
More on Colmar Tropicale Resort.
Report from official news agency Bernama datelined Putrajaya May 20 , 2003 14:48pm has this:
"We gave a licence to the club but I think they may have abused the licence and we have instructed this be stopped," he said Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-946565962003-05-20T16:22:00.000-07:002003-05-20T16:36:03.000-07:00NOTICE: This blog will move to www.jeffooi.com soon!
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All eyes on stimulus plan
The level of anticipation generated by the economic stimulus package is very high. Several trade and professional bodies that I know, especially those from the service industry, are on queue to offer immediate reaction later today, after the PM Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-946358382003-05-20T08:02:00.000-07:002003-05-20T08:02:12.173-07:00NOTICE: This blog will move to www.jeffooi.com soon!
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Jangan mati adat...
On May 15, I blogged about the thriving Malay adat as displayed during the wedding reception of Anwar Ibrahim's eldest daughter, Nurul Izzah, recently.
Despite the overpowering UMNO patronage system, I noticed many Malay dignitaries discarded the Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-946251332003-05-20T02:37:00.000-07:002003-05-20T06:30:42.000-07:00NOTICE: This blog will move to www.jeffooi.com soon!
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Dr M: No casino at Bukit Tinggi
Stop abusing permit for slot machines. Prime Minister Dr Mahathr Mohamad said in Putrajaya the Government has stopped issuing casino licences, and Bukit Tinggi Resort has been directed to stop abusing its permit issued only for gaming Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-946205392003-05-19T23:18:00.000-07:002003-05-20T01:03:18.000-07:00NOTICE: This blog will move to www.jeffooi.com soon!
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Khir Toyo and OSA
Call for transparency. Editor of fortnightly Malaysian Business, Charles Raj, devotes his May 16 commentary on Selangor menteri besar Dr Mohd. Khir Toyo.
His commentary focusses on the recent controversy in Selangor over allegations of granting of Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-946027672003-05-19T15:44:00.000-07:002003-05-19T19:24:37.000-07:00NOTICE: This blog will move to www.jeffooi.com soon!
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This Wednesday and Friday...
Much ado... The market was abuzz with two pieces of news yesterday: The latest economic stimulus package to be announced by the PM this Wednesday, and a MCA power trasfer to be staged this Friday.
ECONOMY: The Edge ran the news on economic Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-945520882003-05-18T15:51:00.000-07:002003-05-19T18:04:17.000-07:00Truth is... your politicians lie
As the general elections draw near... This is probably the next best thing to putting your wakil rakyat on polygraph a.k.a. lie detector.
The Observer, Sunday edition of The Guardian, reported this yesterday: After intensive research, scientists have concluded that politicians lie.
The paper said: "They may prefer to call it being 'economical with the actualitéJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-945299392003-05-18T02:12:00.000-07:002003-05-18T02:12:31.240-07:00A dull blog that gets 85,000 pageviews per month
Can you beat that? Dave Walker, a 32-year-old cartoonist from England, has claimed the distinction of writing "The Dullest Blog in the World."
His "dull blogging" has now been elevated to an art form, much like haiku for economics in words. His blogs meticulously chronicle mundane events in his life: checking e-mail, turning his head to the rightJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-945257762003-05-17T22:43:00.000-07:002003-05-18T02:58:26.000-07:00Media scanning: Sunday columnists etc
Catch of the Day. This Sunday, the 'Catch of the Day' must go to The Malay Mail editor, Akhirudin 'Rocky' Attan, who wrote in NST's Nuances:
Not that I ever thought those journalists of ours were not brave. I know all the journalists with Media Malaysia (JMTM?), some extremely well. [...]
They are not cowards but I also know that they are not the bravest Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-945229722003-05-17T21:09:00.000-07:002003-05-17T23:13:07.000-07:00Dollah Kok Lanas commenting on NY Times scam
Continuing the Blair saga. Is there a mirror somewhere at The NST newsroom for Dollah Kok Lanas to look at himself before he commented on The New York Times' Blair saga? I still want to believe that he wrote The Sunday Diarist column by himself.
More on this at the bottom half of this blog.
Re the New York Times' sacking of rogue reporter Jayson Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-945220072003-05-17T20:39:00.000-07:002003-05-17T20:45:50.000-07:00Media frauds and post-scandal profits
Scary but true. More to The New York Times' sacking of Jayson Blair whom the paper claimed to have 'committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud', including stealing material from other newspapers, falsifying stories, inventing quotes and lying about his whereabouts.
The guy is is taking steps to cash in on the scandal.
Daily News New York said Blair Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-944313622003-05-15T21:45:00.000-07:002003-05-15T22:01:08.000-07:00Malaysiakini links to Screenshots
Many thanks! Malaysiakini has put a frontpage link to this blog starting today. The URL: www.malaysiakini.com/jeffooi/.
A reader from Melbourne, Francis Foo, first made the proposition to Steven Gan, and the Editor has given his consent.
The immediate benefit is that Malaysiakini, with its substantial captured audience, will drive a lot of traffic to this blogJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-944298872003-05-15T21:11:00.000-07:002003-05-15T21:15:31.000-07:00May 17: World Telecommunications Day
The world has changed, and is still changing drastically. I had a conversation with Yap Lih Huey of Star's BizWeek last week in conjunction with World Telecommunications Day tomorrow.
I shared with her some of my reflections on the convergent technologies that have totally changed our lives - private and business. I also talked about MCMC's illusive Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-944252822003-05-15T19:31:00.000-07:002003-05-16T00:06:24.000-07:00NST's papers sideline Khir Toyo
No photo opps. Selangor menteri besar cum Malaysian Youth Council (MBM) president Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo doesn't seem to enjoy good press and photo opportunities in Dollah Kok Lanas' papers.
This is evident in the editorial treatment of the National Youth Day 2003 celebrations yesterday, themed "Driving the Nation's Excellence", throughout NST's stable of papers.
Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-944215822003-05-15T18:07:00.000-07:002003-05-15T18:15:16.000-07:00Catcha: Another (foot)print
Post Meridien? I wonder how many of you are aware of a new free magazine hitting the streets a couple of weeks ago? It's called PM magazine, 100% owned and published by Catcha Sdn Bhd. The publisher is CEO Patrick Grove, and Editor-in-Chief is Luke Elliot. Utusan Princorp handles the printing.
This title is in addition to Catcha's print product, Juice Weekly, Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-944174712003-05-15T16:27:00.000-07:002003-05-15T16:29:46.000-07:00SARS: Death sentence for quarantine-violators in China
Tough measures for tough time. You'll need to understand the politico-bureaucratic-speak in China, but a death sentence is a death sentence.
Official Xinhua news agency announced yesterday that China is improving its legal system to cope with public health emergencies in the wake SARS epidermic.
Singapore Straits Times lifted an AFP story Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-943857772003-05-15T05:35:00.000-07:002003-05-15T05:35:43.063-07:00Thriving Malay adat
Beyond political divides. Despite the overpowering UMNO patronage system, I noticed many Malay dignitaries dare withstanding the nuances of political-correctness to ensure their adat thrive in their hearts.
Clearly, there are modern Malays who do not allow the divisive intra-Malay partisan politics to come in the way of cementing the silaturrahim among their brethren.
I Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-943211452003-05-14T03:51:00.000-07:002003-05-15T05:45:56.000-07:00World Competitiveness Scorecard 2003:
Malaysia in Top 10 list among big population economies
In competitiveness, size does matter. Malaysia is ranked number 4, an improvement over last year's 6th position, in the World Competitiveness Scoreboard 2003 released today.
The World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) - published by IMD Business School, University of Lausanne, Switzerland - presents the Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942998532003-05-13T18:26:00.000-07:002003-05-13T20:50:28.000-07:00JMTM on Kit's radar screen
Screenshots spotted. An expose on media plagiarism in this blog was given a citation by Lim Kit Siang yesterday:
Excerpt:
"Indefatigable blogger Jeff Ooi, has estimated that some RM8 million had been spent by the government for sending the Joint Media Team Malaysia (JMTM) to Baghdad, marred by “stealing, plagiarizing and spiking news” (http://usj.com.my/Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942984332003-05-13T17:57:00.000-07:002003-05-13T20:54:01.000-07:00Flag-waving patriotism
Chinese-Malaysians get flak for not flying national flag. I just blogged about "flag-waving patriotism" among US media organisations just now. Here's a mutated form for Malaysia:
Culture, Arts and Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir has accused Chinese Malaysians of being unpatriotic for not flying the flag on Malaysia Day.
He claimed that more than 90 per cent of Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942965922003-05-13T17:16:00.000-07:002003-05-13T17:30:04.000-07:00The US media paradox
Doing what Bush has wanted. Economists Paul Krugman has this observation on media ownership in US under the present Bush Administration (NYT, May 13):
A funny thing happened during the Iraq war: many Americans turned to the BBC for their TV news. They were looking for an alternative point of view — something they couldn't find on domestic networks, which, in the words of theJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942951182003-05-13T16:43:00.000-07:002003-05-15T06:26:25.000-07:00The meaning of American justice
UPDATE, 9.00am May 14: The Star: Three Malaysians suffered minor injuries in Riyadh bombings. The Malaysians were working in hotels and banks.
What American justice? The New York Times has this for its morning edition: Bush's message on taxes overshadowed by Saudi blasts. Another piece the paper shares with International Herald Tribune says: Attacks to prompt Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942630712003-05-13T06:31:00.000-07:002003-05-13T17:27:19.000-07:00Riyadh blasts: What's the message?
Reprise or Preview? Three suicide bombings rocked Riyadh on the eve of US Secretary of State Colin Powell's 'Roadmap for Peace' visit to Saudi Arabia. What's the significance here?
An hour ago, Reuters reported 29 people, including ten Americans and many other foreigners, were killed and over 190 injured in three suicide bombings which targeted expatriate Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942593882003-05-13T05:00:00.000-07:002003-05-13T05:01:51.000-07:00Media plagiarism: The rumbling...
Time for in-house Ombudsman. Continuing on the journalism scandal that has rocked The New York Times, America's most revered newspaper.
Read Oliver Burkeman's piece: 'All the news that's fit to print' - or so we thought' in Guardian.
Also read:
The Blair Affair by Newsweek's Gersh Kuntzman.
All journalists are stained by the fraud of a few by Carole Leigh Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942586042003-05-13T04:36:00.000-07:002003-05-13T05:05:14.000-07:00Payback time
Post-Saddam housekeeping. JORDAN: The US announced May 13 it will give Jordan $700 million to compensate it for the economic hardship caused by the war in neighbouring Iraq. It is Jordan's biggest cash injection from a Western donor in recent years.
IRAQ: L. Paul Bremer, the new American civilian administrator for Iraq, will face daunting tasks in Iraq: restoring security, power, Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942062082003-05-12T08:07:00.000-07:002003-05-13T02:25:59.000-07:00How NY Times saves its honour
Full disclosure. Is there a newspaper that dares to publish a detailed expose - on the frontpage - to vilify its own wrongs?
Yes, The New York Times.
Yesterday (May 11), it published a 7,500-word, 10-page special report: Correcting The Record, an 8-page sidebar: Witnesses and Documents Unveil Deceptions in a Reporter's Work, and a note from the Editor - just for Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-942040622003-05-12T07:29:00.000-07:002003-05-12T07:35:28.000-07:00NST faces defamation suit over Shamsul's article
Deadline has come and passed. Foreign Affairs Minister Syed Hamid Albar, who became the target of an NST commentary published on April 19, has sent a letter threatening to file a defamation suit on the paper.
The problem is, according to Straits Times Singapore, The NST did not heed the three-day ultimatum he gave. The deadline has since lapsed.
Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-941705712003-05-11T16:39:00.000-07:002003-05-11T16:42:33.000-07:00One-man show
We need company. Amir Muhammad said this in his malaysian-writers mailing list, created since October 1999:
Jeff Ooi might just be our one-man version of Britain's Private Eye magazine, particularly its "Street of Shame" section that chronicles the corruption of the media.
Well, a Malaysian versi has been long overdue. His blog, updated almost daily, is required reading - amir.
Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-941447492003-05-11T04:40:00.000-07:002003-05-11T04:58:06.000-07:00CORRECTION
Non-semantics. Oon Yeoh mentioned I was anti-war (on Iraq).
I hope he will get his tenses right the next time - Jeff Ooi is anti-war on Iraq.
But no offence. He knows where I am.Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-941227562003-05-10T15:57:00.000-07:002003-05-10T19:42:31.000-07:00The 8-million ringgit question for Ahmad A. Talib: Part III
JMTM: From pooling to stealing, plagiarising and spiking news
A question of basic ethics. The integrity of journalism in Malaysia was dealt a big blow when New Straits Times Group Editor Ahmad A. Talib was JMTM chef de mission at his base camp hosted at an Amman hotel.
It's less about an Ahmad A. Talib who never stepped foot into IraqJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-940947692003-05-09T23:34:00.000-07:002003-05-10T07:04:33.000-07:00Like it or not, he's a Ph.D
Adulation. The main story on Page 7 NST today is about New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd group-editor-in-chief Abdullah Ahmad, alongside DRB-Hicom Berhad group chairman Saleh Sulong, going to be conferred honorary doctorates by Universiti Teknologi Mara at its 57th convocation on May 22.
A university citation introduced Abdullah as a member of the varsity alumni who Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-940786472003-05-09T16:10:00.000-07:002003-05-09T16:17:55.000-07:00Pak Lah's report card: NST begs to differ
It's at the bottom. Did you notice this? The New Straits Times yesterday is the only English national newspaper that downplayed Dr Mahathir's top-marks appraisal on Pak Lah who acted as the PM during his two-month holidays.
It gave a mention-in-passing of Pak Lah at the last two of a 17-paragraph story - Dr M: I am not bothered... (related to The Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-940513702003-05-09T06:58:00.000-07:002003-05-11T05:15:13.000-07:00Rehman Rashid joins no-job.com
No thanks to Dollah Kok Lanas
New Straits Times associate editor Rehman Rashid has been sacked for refusing to be a ghost-writer.
Online news portal Malaysiakini, ran this story at 05:58pm today: NST top journalist fired for refusing to write boss’ speech.
Excerpt:
Rehman Rashid wrote speeches for New Straits Times’ editor-in-chief Abdullah Ahmad. But two Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-940267202003-05-08T19:15:00.000-07:002003-05-09T07:36:18.000-07:00Economist 25% sorry, Dr M calls it 'stupid magazine'
Wrong facts on university quota and merit-based system. This is lifted from May 10 issue (available online since May 8) of The Economist, Letter section: Malaysia replies, where its Editor says:
We apologise for our error over university quotas: a new merit-based system has been implemented this year. However, foreign banks do indeed say they Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-940190602003-05-08T16:25:00.000-07:002003-05-08T18:44:02.000-07:00The 8-million ringgit question for Ahmad A. Talib: Part II
NUJ wants details of JMTM's role. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) welcome the government's proposition to extend the role of the Joint Media Team Malaysia (JMTM) to cover news from all over the world, but it wants to know the details.
NUJ president Norila Mohd Daud (Utusan Malaysia) has asked the Information Ministry for this.
Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-940179382003-05-08T16:00:00.000-07:002003-05-10T05:49:12.000-07:00Farish A. Noor has given up
UPDATE: Read Dr Farish's My Final Column, Malaysiakini, 12:16pm Sat May 10th, 2003.
Columns to stop. Heard it from the grapevine: Dr. Badrol Hisham Ahmad-Noor a.k.a. Farish A. Noor (picture below) will stop writing his columns in NST (Cross Currents) and Malaysiakini (The Other Malaysia) from this week.
I noticed recently he has come under severe critiques by a Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-939939282003-05-08T08:10:00.000-07:002003-05-08T08:10:30.923-07:00Salam Pax is back, but...
What's happening? Baghdad ace blogger Salam Pax is back alive today... with a twist.
His blog, chronicling many days of ordeals during US invasion of Iraq, was updated by another blogger Diana Moon who said "Salam Pax sent me this in a Word attachment earlier today." A day before, she received an email from his (Salam Pax's) cousin with his satellite phone number.
Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-939570732003-05-07T16:50:00.000-07:002003-05-08T16:35:32.000-07:00The 8-million ringgit question for Ahmad A. Talib
It's taxpayers' money. How much did it cost the taxpayers to finance the Joint Media Team Malaysia (JMTM)'s mission in (more Amman than) Iraq?
8 million bucks!
Now that JMTM chef de mission Ahmad A. Talib is back home, well rested, can he show us the book how he helped spend 8 million ringgit of taxpayers' money in one month to lead the war Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-938899722003-05-06T15:40:00.000-07:002003-05-06T16:55:02.000-07:00Get well soon, Yasmine!
US kills. Malaysia heals. This girl, nine-year-old Iraqi Yasmine Wa’adi, lost her legs when the United States-led forces bombed her Baghdad home on April 9.
She arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Monday with her father, Wa’adi Makhtoor Hassan, together with the Joint Media Team Malaysia (Media Malaysia) team of 27 journalists, and was sent straight to the Chinese Maternity Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-938883532003-05-06T15:09:00.000-07:002003-05-06T15:09:48.000-07:00Oops!
I accidentally erased yesterday's first blog, on Robert Fisk's take on Iraq: Stand by for the Iraq War, Part II
So he thinks it's all over... George Bush has announced the end of the war. But try telling that to the Shias and the Badr Brigade, says Robert Fisk of Independent.
When Iraqi civilians look into the faces of American troops, President Bush famously told the world on Thursday, “Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-938639862003-05-06T07:32:00.000-07:002003-05-07T08:05:19.000-07:00Open Source people are upset
All Talk, No Action. Really? Open Source people are upset with an article carried by The Edge: NetValue2.0 May 5 edition.
Dinesh Nair (picture left) has written to author Sharmila Ganapathy expressing his disappointment at the way it was handled, and he also entered it at his blog here.
Here's Dinesh's later posting on MNCC OSSIG mailing list:
actually her Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-938229182003-05-05T14:17:00.000-07:002003-05-06T16:53:36.000-07:00Pak Lah's report card
What's the verdict? Pak Lah must have sighed a sigh of relief when PM Dr Mahathir came back to work on Monday (May 5). He assumed the acting Prime Minister post on March 6, and political pundits were saying it was test on his leadership. How has he done well?
May 6, The NST said two major challenges Pak Lah faced in the last two months have been the SARS scare and the ban Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-938007822003-05-05T07:17:00.000-07:002003-05-06T07:13:39.000-07:00Open Source: Where are we now?
Freeing up the software. Two competing business magazines run an Open Source story each this week.
The May 5 edition of The Edge: NetValue2.0 asks: All Talk, No Action. The online version is expected to be available by Wednesday. UPDATE: Tuesday May 6, 7.00pm: The article is on the web now.
The May 1 edition of Malaysian Business, in which I write a fortnightly Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-937990062003-05-05T06:41:00.000-07:002003-05-05T06:58:03.000-07:00New theory: Blogs to power Malaysia's Internet presence?
ISPs aren't complete without blogs? A fair bit of traffic to this blog today was generated by Raslan Sharif's article just published in The Star's TechCentral: Malaysian ISP battle heats up.
The article said, while TM Net and Jaring are competing keenly for share-of-voice, the number of domain name registrations has been decreasing from Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-937829312003-05-04T22:00:00.000-07:002003-05-04T23:15:34.000-07:00A US journey for Rehman Rashid?
Malaysian agenda. New Straits Times associate editor Rehman Rashid (picture below) appeared alongside National Translation Institute chairman Abdul Aziz Rahman on RTM1 talkshow Point of View on Saturday night, moderated by Bernama executive editor Azman Ujang. Their discussion topic was How Objective is the Foreign Media, aired in conjunction with World Press Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-937656422003-05-04T15:54:00.000-07:002003-05-04T17:40:09.000-07:00MIMOS accused of competing with Bumi firms
Mimos clean-up long overdue. Mimos Berhad was the main target when Second Finance Minister Dr Jamaludin Jarjis said government-owned companies should consider withdrawing from sectors in which Bumiputera firms are present to avoid competing against them.
He said it was Government policy that such companies do not compete for Government Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-937345782003-05-03T21:45:00.000-07:002003-05-03T22:40:10.000-07:00Economist: Banning not the best way
Don't fall for its trap. Berita Publishing Group Editor-in-Chief, A. Kadir Jasin (picture below), said banning The Economist is not the best way to counter negative reports about Malaysia and its leaders, and in fact it will be seen as falling into a trap set up by foreign media to test the extent of press freedom in the country.
He said that if the ban on Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-937330172003-05-03T21:03:00.000-07:002003-05-03T21:08:11.000-07:00World Press Freedom Day: Editors speak
Press freedom scrutinised. The Star's Nick Leong, who rounds up Malaysia's observing of World Press Freedom Day, yesterday, says: "Journalists are reminded to report facts in helping the public know the truth."
He quoted several journalists - New Straits Times associate editor Rehman Rashid, The Star associate editor Bunn Negara and Malaysiakini editor Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-937272052003-05-03T18:27:00.000-07:002003-05-03T18:30:02.000-07:00SARS: Malaysia says WHO accepts its proposal on re-classification
Low, medium, high and none-of-the-above. This is a Bernama story dispatched at 22:04 last night: Health Deputy Director-General Dr Ismail Merican said the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted Malaysia's proposal on a reclassification of SARS-affected countries to better reflect the situation in these countries.
Under theJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-937023292003-05-03T06:02:00.000-07:002003-05-03T06:02:45.000-07:00Dear Mr President...
Silicon Valley is hurting... San Jose Mercury News editorial May 2: AN OPEN LETTER FROM SILICON VALLEY FOR YOUR VISIT THIS MORNING:
You might notice the traffic is a little lighter today than the last time you were here. That's because we've run into a tough patch here in the Silicon Valley.
But before we get into that, we want to offer congratulations on the war in Iraq.Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936989142003-05-03T03:18:00.000-07:002003-05-03T20:22:37.000-07:00Economist: DD Wong's commentary draws criticism
DD = Dare-devil? April 30, I commented on Star executive editor Wong Chun Wai's opinion piece where he critiqued The Economist April 5 feature: The Changing of the Guard - A Survey of Malaysia without reading it in depth.
His article has since attracted two responses from two notable commentators.
The first salvo came from blogger Oon Yeoh, a Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936975372003-05-03T02:10:00.000-07:002003-05-03T02:10:47.000-07:00CommunicAsia and Broadcast Asia 2003 are cancelled
SARS scare. The CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia trade shows in Singapore, scheduled for June 17 to 20 this year, have been scrapped because of the SARS outbreak, the organizers Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) announced yesterday.
More than 90% of exhibitors surveyed said June -- the original date of the show -- was out because of fears of a Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936969212003-05-03T01:38:00.000-07:002003-05-03T05:20:51.000-07:00Blogspot has systemic problems
Can Google fix this, please? The blogs archive at Blogger.com - which hosts this blog for free - tends to screw up my archive during most weekends. I have to frequently republish all archive content or else all permalinks would go haywire. People who link this blog are led to wrong entries.
The thing is, most times when I want to republish the archive, the engineJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936862582003-05-02T20:14:00.000-07:002003-05-03T20:34:23.000-07:00Aussie drug recall: Cancelled items increased to 1,369
UPDATE: Sunday Star May 4: Tip of the iceberg in Pan saga.
Pan supplies 30% of products sold in Malaysia's registered pharmacies. Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has increased to 1,369 the number of recalled products manufactured by Pan Pharmaceuticals Ltd., up from 219 announced on April 28, and 668 on May 1.
Page 6 Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936832482003-05-02T18:54:00.000-07:002003-05-02T18:58:49.000-07:00InfoSoc 2003: Oon Yeoh and Aizuddin Danian to speak on blogs
Annual talk-shop. The National IT Council will host InfoSoc 2003 in Melaka, June 21 to 24. This year's theme is "Catalyzing Youth for Value Creation: Leveraging on ICT". It will feature Oon Yeoh and Aizuddin Danian as panelists on blogs.
Both of them are putting their thoughts together on the form and substance of blogs.
I wish theyJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936418432003-05-02T02:28:00.000-07:002003-05-02T06:45:09.000-07:00Dinesh's 80-hour wait for Streamyx
Alphaque is back! Just got an email from Dinesh on May 2003 15:48:28 +0800 (MYT), telling me that "tmnet restored my link again after 80 hours of downtime this afternoon."
His Streamyx 1.5Mbps SDSL line went down on April 29, and rolled over the May 1 holiday.
If an 80-hour outage wasn't a record for Streamyx SDSL, then this one must surely be:
The problem ? Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936315082003-05-01T19:58:00.000-07:002003-05-01T20:10:35.000-07:00Economist: Malaysia to rebut
'We'll show them factual errors'. Acting PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Malaysia will rebut allegations made by The Economist in its April 5 feature: The Changing of Guard – A Survey of Malaysia, about alleged wrong depiction of PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad's leadership and contribution to Malaysia.
National Economic Action Council executive director Mustapa Mohamed has Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936244632003-05-01T17:32:00.000-07:002003-05-01T17:32:37.246-07:00DD Wong?
Get to know him. I received several emails, some from senior journalists, talking about DD Wong. Looks like this nick is being passed around in the newsroom.
Click here and here to find out more about who DD Wong is.
The impression I get is, DD Wong has been served notice that heaps of challenge is coming his way, professionally and intellectually.Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-936242662003-05-01T17:24:00.000-07:002003-05-01T17:35:57.000-07:00Can someone help me, please?
Traffic referrals. Google search is as much a barometer of breaking events as a chronicle of history. But there is certain information which I can't find there.
Yesterday, lazing around at home and in front of the PC, I took a peep at my blog traffic analysis. One of the most frequent referrals has been Google search on Malaysian tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan, with Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935869832003-05-01T03:06:00.000-07:002003-05-01T03:39:53.000-07:00All in the family
FROM INTELLIGENCE:
FEER, May 8: Singapore's Iraq War Reward
Washington is expected to reward Singapore for its support during the Iraq War by letting the island republic arm its home-based F-16s fighters with radar-guided missiles. The advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, or AMRAAMs, would be the first deployed in the region, say United States officials.
In Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935861282003-05-01T02:29:00.000-07:002003-05-01T04:12:00.000-07:00Aussie drug recall:
Pan refuses to apologise; list grows from 219 to 668
UPDATE: The Age, May 1 (7.00pm): Pan Pharmaceuticals Ltd said today it had accepted the resignation of its founder Jim Selim as managing director and chief executive officer.
Pan Pharmaceuticals has been forced to recall 668 alternative health supplements following an audit by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935771972003-04-30T21:54:00.000-07:002003-04-30T21:54:35.106-07:00Dr M is back to work, May 5
Hectic schedule. The PM's diary is full for May when he returns to work on Monday after a two-month break, ahead of his retirement in October. He will arrive this weekend from Europe. According to The Star:
May 10: To open MIC’s 57th annual general assembly at Putra World Trade Centre
May 11: To receive German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
May 11: To attend UMNO’s Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935763622003-04-30T21:37:00.000-07:002003-04-30T21:38:22.000-07:00SARS: Phaik Chin should read this
Another victim below 30. The Star: Boy youngest SARS suspect. A two-year-old boy became the youngest suspected SARS victim after he displayed symptoms upon returning from Shanghai.
April 29, I blogged a AFP story which said Malaysia reported three new suspected SARS cases Monday, including a four-year-old Singaporean boy (Oops! Kee Phaik Chin!).Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935725782003-04-30T20:24:00.000-07:002003-04-30T20:37:14.000-07:00Malaysian media: The vital signs
AGM season. MCA-controlled The Star is expected to sustain its position as the country's newspaper publisher with the highest profitability.
Here is a summary of AGMs:
The Star
Star posts RM18 mln net profit for 1Q
Star Publications (M) Bhd announced an interim higher net profit of RM18.56 million for the first three months to March 31, 2003, compared with Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935709892003-04-30T19:55:00.000-07:002003-04-30T20:47:13.000-07:00Aussie drug recall:
346 items ordered off shelves in Malaysia
Total recall. The Malaysian Drug Control Authority has ordered that all 346 products of Pan Pharmaceuticals Limited, Australia’s largest contract manufacturer of healthcare and pharmaceutical products, be taken off the shelves with immediate effect, reports New Straits Times.
Meanwhile, Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935682402003-04-30T19:07:00.000-07:002003-04-30T19:18:38.000-07:00Dinesh's Streamyx outage to roll over May Day?
Clarification. Probably, I didn't describe clearly yesterday on how premium Streamyx users - e.g. 1.5Mbps SDSL - affected mission critical operation, like Dinesh's.
I mentioned briefly Dinesh's organisation, Worldcare Asia, is a global e-health network that links up medical specialists around the world for information exchange which requires Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935641072003-04-30T17:42:00.000-07:002003-05-01T17:06:09.000-07:00First of May
Does it carry a more significant meaning to the workforce apart from the stereotyped speeches and a day off?
* Send me an email
* Suggest a column/blog topic
Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935213042003-04-30T02:24:00.000-07:002003-04-30T19:20:56.000-07:00Streamyx has a big problem
We are talking about premium 1.5Mbps SDSL here, OK? I still can't access Dinesh's blog. Not a routine for a bandwidth sucker like him.
He wrote to MNCC OSSIG mailing list on Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:49:04 +0800 (MYT), apparently responding to a tmnet.streamyx newsgroup posting by Streamyx Support which I blogged yesterday, and cross-posted by Ditesh Kumar, para by para:Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935171632003-04-29T23:48:00.000-07:002003-05-01T02:51:45.000-07:00Economist: No apology to Malaysia; latest issue delayed.
Apology not likely. Malaysiakini, 12:24pm Wed Apr 30:
The Economist has ruled out any likelihood that it would issue an apology for its recent survey on Malaysia which has offended several Barisan Nasional leaders.
Straits Times Singapore quoted Malaysiakini which interviewed Economist's Christopher Lockwood:
'No, we will not be Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935111932003-04-29T21:24:00.000-07:002003-04-30T02:48:05.000-07:00Re "Economist: Chun Wai doesn't read it either."
Read Oon Yeoh's comments in Transition.
Economist: On second read. Fellow blogger Oon Yeoh commented on Star executive editor Wong Chun Wai's opinion piece today: Insist on the right to be heard, today.
In my earlier blog on the topic, I mentioned about Chun Wai making a headcount of people whom Christopher Lockwood interviewed for his April 5 Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-935021932003-04-29T18:40:00.000-07:002003-04-29T19:52:12.000-07:00Economist: Chun Wai doesn't read it either
Malaysia wrongly judged. Star executive editor Wong Chun Wai admitted in his opinion piece today, that he doesn't read The Economist:
I must confess that like most Malaysians I was not aware of the furore created by the magazine until angry Barisan Nasional leaders called for action to be taken against it.
Many of these politicians, calling for the Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-934959342003-04-29T16:34:00.000-07:002003-04-30T00:56:14.000-07:00Australia's biggest medical recall in history affects Malaysia
Product registration cancelled:
21st Century: 55, Cosway: 48 and Kordells: 44
Authorities to investigate Pan Pharmaceuticals for non-disclosure on licence suspension. The EdgeDaily.com has this:
The Australian government has recalled and deregistered more than 1,800 health products on quality and safety concerns - a move that Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-934628882003-04-29T06:13:00.000-07:002003-04-29T18:20:30.000-07:00One-day SARS Summit in Thailand
Early warning system top priority. Leaders from the nine Asean nations - host Thailand is the 10th - and China congregate in Bangkok today for a one-day summit on SARS (two hours of heads-of-government conference, and sideline one-on-one). That goes to show how SARS differs from AIDS in terms of grave urgency.
Top of the agenda, according to The Nation, is to Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-934551212003-04-29T02:15:00.000-07:002003-04-29T07:09:06.000-07:00Streamyx: 'We are serving the nation's needs, so be patient!'
In other words, shut up! You are fuming mad with Streamyx's quality of service? Hold your breath and read this posting lifted from tmnet.streamyx newsgroup
Thanks Eric Yeoh for the pointer.
We at streamyx would like to inform that owing to the overwhelming demand for our services, it is unfortunate that we are unable to attend to Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-934546852003-04-29T01:58:00.000-07:002003-04-29T02:03:01.000-07:00Streamyx screwed-up again, today
Not again! Streamyx was down, and I was cut-off from the Internet in the office since late morning till just now. It's intermittenly unstable. Heaven knows what happened. Can't get through the 1300-88-9515 CS line either.
Dinesh Nair's site is down too. Got to read what he wrote in MNCC OSSIG mailing list:
29 Apr 2003 15:16:52 +0800 (MYT): "there's a streamyxJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-934320922003-04-28T17:24:00.000-07:002003-04-28T19:41:53.000-07:00A race to show who could be more loyal to Dr Mahathir?
Pak Lah promises 'most effective action'. Economist writer speaks up.
UMNO proxy war? Acting PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is strengthening his ground.
He said the Government will take "the most effective action" against The Economist of London for publishing an article which humiliated Malaysia and its leadership.
He said the action to be Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-934301892003-04-28T16:47:00.000-07:002003-04-28T16:51:04.000-07:00SARS: Worst over everywhere except China
Phaik Chin, you hear this? Another victim below 30. Straits Times Singapore reported yesterday: The World Health Organization said that the worst of SARS outbreak is over in Singapore, Hongkong, Canada and Vietnam, but warned that it appears to be spreading rapidly in China.
Click on the map to view global updates. BBC grahics
Malaysia:
theSun Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-933918082003-04-28T03:52:00.000-07:002003-04-28T06:48:08.000-07:00Economist issue: Najib up-staging Pak Lah
I stand corrected. April 25, I said Najib Tun Razak sprang into attacking The Economist (which allegedly vilified PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad's leadership and legacy) after Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has spoken up.
Apparently, it's the other way round, according to a Malaysiakini report by Nash Rahman.
Najib held his Economist-whacking press conference ahead ofJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-933902862003-04-28T02:56:00.000-07:002003-04-28T06:01:05.000-07:00He says I'm OK...
Chinese blog. Screenshots was noticed by Malaysian IT practitioner Yow Kee Cheng today. He thought, apparently, "there is much better coverage and brilliant blog about SARS in Malaysia", pointing to this blog.
Yow Kee uses MovableType to power his blog, and is attempting to blog in Chinese. I must learn from him one day.
Via Blogdex.Jeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068402.post-933841842003-04-27T23:27:00.000-07:002003-04-28T06:06:25.000-07:00Irresponsible journalism: A swift response
Put it this way... Francis Foo read my blog: Screenshots and irresponsible journalism and immediately emailed from Melbourne, quoting Dr Patrick Dicken who said SARS virus could be more devastating than AIDS.
Dr Dickson, one of Europe's experts on predicting global trends, is Fellow at the Centre for Management Development at London Business School. HeJeff Ooihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559396935837709621noreply@blogger.com