Posts Tagged with ‘malaysia’

Barack Obama and Ron Paul aren't the only two politicians who've made the most out of Web 2.0 tools in running their campaigns. Just like her Western counterparts, 89-year-old grandmother and Malaysian parliament candidate Maimun Yusuf has turned to the Internet for her campaign, fighting for a parliament seat controlled by Malaysian's current ruling coalition.
Maimun has 7 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren, and is registered as an independent candidate. With very little money, she has turned to supporters (24 volunteers) to [...]

Malaysia isn’t the hottest spot on the Web. Naturally, that title is reserved for Silicon Valley. Nonetheless, the government of the Southeast Asian country is raising a fit over what it feels is a dangerous insurgency in the form of a blogger complex that is attacking the nation’s king and the religion of Islam.
And it’s threatening to use “tough anti-terrorism laws” to combat commentators who the governing party believes to be a threat security. Etcetera, etcetera.
Already, the ruling party has [...]

The AFP is reporting that Malaysian Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin has told Malaysian newspapers not to use blogs for quotes or any other source of information in their reporting. According to Zainuddin, the papers should "not quote them because you are disgracing yourself as you are the authority. Do not give credit to such anarchist websites."
The media in Malaysia is under very strict government control, being required to adhere to the country's Printing Presses and Publication Act (PPPA) published in 1984. [...]