Zunar lancar kartun konspirasi

Kartunis terkenal Zunar mencabar ahli politik dan individu terkenal yang dinamakan dalam buku kartun terbarunya berkaitan kes pertuduhan liwat kedua terhadap Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menyamannya jika fakta disampaikan tidak benar.

Katanya, beliau tidak  gentar didakwa di mahkamah Malaysia ekoran penerbitan buku barunya berjudul Komplot penjara Anwar: Najib jatuh hukum, hakim ikut skrip itu.

Cerita penuh di sini.

Pitching for Freedom

This year's

Freedom Film Fest sees a different format.

Five participants from 20 who submitted film ideas to Komas had to pitch to three industry personalities who then selected the final three.  The selected, get a grant of RM6,000.00  to produce their film.  

The three winners, Mohd Affandi, a writer and cartoonist and also known as Ronasina, filmmaker Azharr Rudin and political cartoonist,  Zunar will now have 3 months to produce their films which will be premiered at the Festival in September 2014 together with screenings of local and international films.

Reporting Chin Peng

Aidila-Reporting ChinPen from Shufiyan Shukur on Vimeo.

Malaysiakini's senior journalist, Aidila Razak talks about her experience when assigned to cover Chin Peng's funeral.

The Malayan Communist Party's sec-gen, Chin Peng - born Ong Boon Hua - died of cancer on Sept 16 at a Bangkok hospital at the age of 89.

The Malaysian government refused requests for his ashes to be brought back to his birthday place of Setiawan, Perak.

Celebrated as an anti-colonial on one side and reviled as a communist terrorist on the other, Chin Peng was the only communist not allowed to return to Malaysia after the peace accord in 1989.

Some of his comrades chose to return, while others decided life on the Thai side in the Peace Village was better.

Hudud 101

PAS has been attempting to impose Sharia criminal law ever since it captured the state of Kelantan. It has already passed a state enactment, but under the Federal Constitution, Sharia law has limitations; limited to family matters and crimes such as drinking alcohol in public. So now it is going through Parliament via a Private Members' Bill, but it may not be as simple as that.

Film Censorship Act has far reaching effects

April 28, 2014: Komas, the Human Rights popular communications centre handed a memorandum to the human rights commission, Suhakam over what they say is the persecution of Lena Hendry under the country's censorship law. Hendry works with Komas as its programme coordinator. She was charged for screening a documentary on the Sri Lanka civil war called No Fire Zone. Komas is requesting that Suhakam intervene to defend her rights and to check the unfettered powers of the home minister over film censorship. The Film Censorship Act 2002 they say is wide-ranging and covers even home movies. Hendry is the first human rights activist to be charged under the Act. Those who had been previously charged had been illegal VCD peddlers. Representatives from several Rights NGOs, lawyers and filmmakers accompanied Komas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ppVyc...

Capital TV celebrates 2nd anniversary

May 6 saw Capital TV celebrate their 2nd anniversary. The business channel available only on Unifi's Hypp TV features a very business-centric content with analysis, talk shows, live programming while not leaving out those who also want to consume world news, life-style and sports programme offerings. 

Highlighting the birthday bash were signings of memorandums with the Subang Municipality and sports car racing team, FX Primus Aylezo who compete in the Lamborghini Blancpain super Trofeo Asia Season. 

Signing for MPSJ was its president, Datuk Asmawi Kasbi and En Mohan, FXPrimus Aylezo's Team Principal.