Did you get that sms to boycott papers - c'mon, what we need is MORE newspapers!

KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 – Perhaps some Malaysians should get one thing straight: newspapers, either in its traditional print form or electronic versions, do not belong to the people.

Newspapers belong to their owners, and the best way to ensure a more measured and balance coverage of a country’s day-to-day affairs and happenings, is to encourage more competition.

For competition, read: MORE NEWSPAPERS.

The answer to more balanced coverage is not a boycott of all traditional newspapers in Malaysia for one week, from today, as has been urged by an SMS message that has gone viral in the past few days.
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Thousands pack Opposition rallies even for young candidates

Kuala Lumpur, March 2 – When more than 10,000 people turned up last night at Penang’s Han Chiang school hall to attend an Opposition rally, it was not really a surprise. After all, they were drawn by the marquee names like Lim Guan Eng and Anwar Ibrahim.

But more than 400km south of Penang, in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Subang Jaya, Hannah Yeoh, a pint-sized 29-year-old law graduate, in her maiden campaign to win a state seat on a Democratic Action Party (DAP) ticket, was expecting, at most, a few hundred people at her rally.

So it came as quite a surprise when nearly 5,000 people – mostly Chinese – packed a school field in USJ on Saturday night to support her and the Opposition.
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Are there enough Chinese left for the DAP?

Kuala Lumpur, March 1 - On the stump, in between the sharp rhetoric, fiery speeches and cutting comments about the Barisan Nasional (BN) government, leaders of the main Opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) like Lim Guan Eng have been slipping in what they hope is a satisfactory answer to a nagging question about their role in Malaysia.

"Do you think we want to always be an Opposition party? Of course any political party wants to rule," he told cheering supporters at a campaign rally in Kg Cempaka on Wednesday night.
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In Petaling Jaya rally, a sign of things to come?

Kuala Lumpur, Feb 26 – She’s standing on a makeshift platform, shouting herself hoarse, while a few diners at the open area next to the SS2 hawker centre look on with little emotion, sipping their beer, tucking into supper.

If Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun is asking herself why she is working so hard so late into the night to win over voters after two terms as the member of parliament for PJ Utara, she shows no signs of it.

Instead, the Malaysian Chinese Association politician is taking succour from the dozen or so party supporters who raise their placards now and then and applaud encouragingly.
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