WHO CAN TRUST UMNO-LINKED PRESS? NONE

Guan Eng: Umno-linked press out to lynch me

Fresh from pursuing a case against the Umno-linked Utusan Malaysia in the Penang High Court today, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng now plans to sue two more newspapers.

They are New Straits Times (NST) and Mingguan Malaysia in relation to their reports on an alleged dinner meeting in Singapore with several senior leaders of the People's Action Party.

The dinner was also reportedly attended by a Malaysia Airlines board director, Mohamad Azman Yahya and businessman Kalimullah Hassan who have already denied the reports published yesterday.

The reports quoted Perkasa information chief Ruslan Kasim as urging the three - Lim, Mohamad Azman and Kalimullah - to clear the air over the matter in the interests of the country.

However, Ruslan has since said that he had been misquoted in his statement to NST on Saturday and

Ruslan said what he said was that Azman should answer allegations that he has information on a secret meeting between Lim and PAP's top leaders during a dinner on Aug 12 in Singapore that was also attended by Kalimullah.

He also urged the trio to clarify if the topics discussed during the alleged meeting had involved Malaysian's national security.

Today, after a long, long time, I took a taxi home.

As the taxi was approaching the yet-to-be-demolished 50 sen toll structure, its driver, an Indian man, slowed down and was getting ready to pay toll.

I told him, 'No need to pay toll.'

'Oh, no need to pay toll?' he asked in a surprised tone.

I answered him in the affirmative and told him that the election was coming soon - hence, the government had abolished it.

'They always like that, gimmick. They think they can fool us,' he said.

I nodded my head and said, 'They can only bluff those kampung people.'


'Oh no. Nowadays, these kampung fellows are smart unlike last time. Now there's the Internet and they know how to Internet,' the taxi driver said matter-of-factly.


Well, I couldn't agree with him more.