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The Home Ministry raided and conducted a seizure at the Toko Buku Rakyat bookstore owned by local author Benz Ali at Wisma Central, Kuala Lumpur, earlier today.

When contacted, Benz confirmed the incident and expressed his disappointment with the confiscation.

“You can’t do this. What’s more, under the leadership of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. This is just like the previous BN government.

“It’s your government, yet you can’t even control the Home Ministry. I sell books that are not listed in the banned book list.

cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/341996

Yeah it's theatre but I figure boleh lah. Apparently got good buzz. I wish I can go.... Synopsis : 16 year-old Ajay must navigate the intricacies of growing up in a traditional Malaysian Indian household while learning to explore and accept his own identity without losing the one person who matters most to him; his mother.

Tix available for evening and matinee shows.

Yeah it's theatre but I figure boleh lah. Apparently got good buzz. I wish I can go.... Synopsis : 16 year-old Ajay must navigate the intricacies of growing up in a traditional Malaysian Indian household while learning to explore and accept his own identity without losing the one person who matters most to him; his mother.

Tix available for evening and matinee shows.

Episode description: Ethnonationalism, religious nationalism, neo-fascism and other forms of right-wing and ultra conservative populist movements are on the rise, in Malaysia and across the globe.

From the growing popularity of PAS and Perikatan Nasional in Malaysia, Narendra Modi and his Hindu Nationalist project in India, to strongman Donald Trump or the Evangelical Christians of the Republican Party in the US, and the anti-immigration Marine Le Pen in France, the list goes on and on. This has led to massive polarisation across ethnic and religious lines.

While each country and region has its own unique historical and sociopolitical contexts, one can’t help but wonder what are the parallels that can be drawn. Why are we polarised and could class struggle be a remedy? We speak to Assistant Professor Peter Beattie, Political Economist and Political Psychologist, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

The link takes you to a nitter copy (it works again!) But in case elon kasi dia koyak lagi: https://twitter.com/egasmb/status/1691789735142772893?t=k-c2L84nIEkJN3yVZ0Jfog&s=19

And it's qt another thread of his, and basically... It's no contest syiok/shiok/syok comes from Malay, but where did Malay got it? Apparently by way of Persian and it still exists in Malay, as "asyik".

Pretty cool stuff!

Interactive piece. Pretty cool. (The Star btw introduced some dumbass jscript -I think - to disable ppl highlighting and copying their text. For reasons of.... Tak nak orang promote their journalism? IDK)

Speaking in fluent Malay and throwing in a few English terms, the confident Ardi is among the few older members in the Men-raq team, most of whom are in their 20s.

The team leaders recently won the IUCN WCPA International Ranger Award 2023, the first time that a Malaysian team has won.

The award, which is in its third year running, is held in conjunction with World Ranger Day on July 31. This year, there were 114 nominations from 52 countries. The Menraq received the US$10,000 (RM45,495) award for exemplary achievement in community-led conservation of tigers.

The team’s win, which was announced during an online ceremony on July 26, earned praise from the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, who extended his congratulations and deepest appreciation to every member of the patrol unit.

The award, hosted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) specialist group, recognises the remarkable work of rangers in protected areas around the world.

The Jahai people, explains Ardi, has lived in Royal Belum for generations.

“And I believe that we should be responsible for the well-being of this forest. No one else should be on the Menraq team but us,” he says.

Ardi hopes that his children as well as those of his community members will carry on the work in the future.

“It is our hope that our children would want to carry the same responsibility as their fathers. Being able to protect this forest is what is in our blood and we are proud of what we are doing,” he says.

While once again I am in clown mode, politely asking yet another twitterati if they have a non-twitter copy, while Elon breaks the Nitter hookup again, I guess I'll just manually copy and paste

💀Slimmest majorities at PRN 2023💀

245 DUNs were contested.

26 of them (10%) were won with majority < 1000. Insane!

In all these DUNs, the thousands who didn't vote could have changed the result.

If you can, vote. You never know when your area will go wild.

It's crazy, they only got a week of cinema time! But please, if you're in Malaysia, please do catch it - last day of screenings is apparently tomorrow!

Synopsis: …starring Chen Keat Yoke, Eric Chen, Sam Chong, Rabbit Chen and Fabian Loo. Only in Malaysian cinemas 10 August 2023. Hungry Ghost Diner is a family-friendly film, which explores the heartfelt meaning behind the Hungry Ghost Festival through the eyes of its intrepid protagonist Bonnie Lam who discovers that her family’s coffee shop is haunted by ghosts of her dead relatives returning for the annual Ghost Festival at rural Behrang Stesen, Perak.

Hmm