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Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Pic: AP.

Malaysia’s Internet conundrum

By Asia Sentinel Mon, Nov 19, 2012 5:51PM UTC 0 Comment

Authorities would like to shut opposition sites, but former PM promised it would stay free, reports Asia Sentinel In August of 1996, when he launched the 50 km-long Multimedia Super Corridor between Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia’s new international airport in an attempt to lure high-tech startups to his country, then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad made a...

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International news and Malaysia’s censors

By Asia Sentinel Thu, May 17, 2012 7:43PM UTC 0 Comment

'Anwar Ibrahim', an objectionable keyword. Pic: AP.

Five-minute time lag allows extra bits to be snipped out to preserve ‘sensibilities’, reports Asia Sentinel’s John Berthelsen In Malaysia, the international television news you watch may not be the same television news watched across the rest of the world. It appears that the major broadcast networks beamed into the country including BBC, CNBC, Australian...

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Malaysian academia rocked by suspension of professor over comments

By Yong Yen Nie Mon, Oct 24, 2011 10:00AM UTC 0 Comment

The academia of Malaysia was rocked last week by the suspension of an esteemed university lecturer, due to remarks that he made to a Sultan that were seen as “contrary to the interest of the university”. Aziz Bari, a law professor from International Islamic University, was issued a show cause letter by the university’s legal...

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