I received this e-mail today. Well, have a look.

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Abdullah Denies Buying Executive Jet
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Monday denied news reports that he had bought an executive jet, and explained that the government had only leased the aircraft from Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad.

The prime minister pointed out that the plane was not for his use alone.

“The jet is for use of the government, not the prime minister (only),” he told a news conference at the KL International Airport upon his return from London after having attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

Elaborating, Abdullah said: “The aircraft belongs to Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad*; it was (bought with) their money. We just leased it like how MAS (Malaysia Airlines) leases aircraft from them.”

Previously……

Turkish Co Denies Alleged Order For RM30 Mln Yacht
Kobra Yatcilik Turizm ve Turizm Limited Co., a Turkish yachting and tourism company, has denied that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has placed an order for the construction of a RM30 million yacht as reported by a Turkish newspaper recently.

* For your information, Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad is own by Khazanah Nasional . Click here for the details about the Khazanah Nasional.

For your information, the question about the executive jet was started from the blogs, just like the question about the Turkish yacht. Now we know Malaysia indeed has an Executive jet for VIPs. Is that tax payers money or what? What say you?

Bloggers have a duty too,by WONG CHUN WAI

Their blogging has made Malaysian democracy more meaningful although not everyone agrees with their views. They should not be regarded as dissenters because democracy is about tolerance.

They have been bold enough to bring up issues that mainstream newspapers have not done.

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I should say they are cold blood beings. People already in suffer but they added more salt to the wounds. This is really ugly, uncivilized act.

An unwelcome gift – expired noodles

Someone donated 9,000 packets of instant noodles for flood victims last week.

The Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) should be saying thank you but it is not – the noodles’ expiry date was October last year.

“It is bad enough that people often donate worn-out items but giving expired food items is just unacceptable.

“They are only making things worse,” MRCS director of operations Mohd Kamal Omar said. The noodles packed in 300 boxes arrived on Wednesday.

“We noticed very attractive labels placed over the expiry date. We tore them off and saw the (expiry) date was Oct 3 last year.

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Blogger, NSTP to refrain from publishing content that may prejudice trial.

Blogger Ahirudin Attan and New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd have agreed not to publish any articles or comment on matters that may be subjudice or prejudicial to the libel suit between the two parties.

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These three articles were published in News Straits Times (Malaysia) on 24th, 25th, and 26th January.

On 24th January

PM asks world to stop forces of extremism
Speaking later, Abdullah said the government would not censor bloggers but they had to be responsible and that they could be subject to defamation, sedition and other laws.

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After read Susan’s response to theSUN’s editorial “Dangers of Misusing Blogs”; I would like to say: Well said, Susan!

If you not yet read them, I strongly suggest you don’t miss them. You should read it and think about it.

• Dangers of Misusing blogs
• Dangers of “Abusing” Bloggers
• Dangers of “Abusing” Bloggers (2)

I like this question in one of her articles.

By the way, when the PM spoke about irresponsible bloggers in London, does he also include pro-Adullah bloggers who use pseudonyms?

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Blogger urged to remove readers’ comments

Lawyers representing New Straits Times Press (NSTP) today raised concerns over comments left in Ahirudin Attan’s blog, citing sub judice rules. The plantiffs have also applied to the court today to remove comments pertaining to their defamation suit which appeared in Raja Petra Kamarudin’s Malaysia Today blog.

Ahirudin’s lawyer Edmund Bon told the press that the plantiffs - NSTP and four others - wanted comments discussing the merits of the case to be removed as they risked prejudicing the case.

“We were only told about it this morning that they want such comments removed so we will look into these comments and give the plaintiffs an answer on Monday.

“We will decide whether it is indeed sub judice [...] we have not taken a position yet whether we want to leave the comments in the site or remove it,” he told reporters in Wisma Denmark, Kuala Lumpur today.

He stressed the comments were not related to what Ahirudin had written but what his commentators have been saying.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………………………….

Rocky’s lawyers to apply to the High Court of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, to have the suit struck off and the Justice has fixed the strike-off hearing on February 22.

Listen to what other bloggers said!

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Prime Minister had his words on bloggers sued matter

Bloggers must be responsible

Bloggers must be responsible for what they write on the Internet as there are laws on defamation and sedition, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said. The Prime Minister said these laws were enforceable and bloggers must bear in mind that they could not hide or take advantage of the Internet to do something that was against the law. He said bloggers, just like newspaper journalists, must be responsible for what they wrote or risk facing legal action from others.

These are the responses from Rocky’s Bru and Sceenshots blogs.

Ahirudin bin Attan in his I’m a Responsible Blogger

I am a responsible blogger. Anyone who comes into this blog can click on my profile and know who I am. I do not hide behind any kind of “cover”. From the first day I started blogging, I have been using my own name. Not a nickname. And I have always encouraged friends to use their own names for their blogs. There’s no shame. No Fear.

Jeff Ooi in his Responsible journalism

Since theSun mentioned nothing about the real threat to the future of journalism as it went to ‘define’ misused blogs today, I hope someday, there are journalists from Malaysia who are courageous enough to write, or at least chronicle, about responsible journalism, if only just for balance.

Today is Rocky’s interparte injunction hearing. Good luck, gentleman.

Listen to what other bloggers said!

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Bloggers must be responsible

LONDON: Bloggers must be responsible for what they write on the Internet as there are laws on defamation and sedition, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said. The Prime Minister said these laws were enforceable and bloggers must bear in mind that they could not hide or take advantage of the Internet to do something that was against the law. He said bloggers, just like newspaper journalists, must be responsible for what they wrote or risk facing legal action from others.

“They cannot hope to cover themselves or hide from the laws,” he told Malaysian journalists at the end of his three-day working visit here yesterday.

Yes, they are responsible bloggers. They provide their real identities, real name, and even their photo in their blogs. They monitor, delete, warn, and ban aggressive or offensive comment from their blogs readers. They don’t hope cover themselves or hide from the laws. If they do, why they provide all real identities?

Azmi Sharom has several good points in his article NST playing the bully.

Any newspaper worth its salt must defend freedom of expression, not curb it, and as such the NST is behaving in a shameful manner. It is shameful because if what these men and their readers said were untrue, then the NST has all the power and facility to oppose it in the best way possible and that is by intelligently and clearly refuting what was said. For God’s sake, they are a newspaper. They are not some poor individual who had been defamed and has no other recourse but the law because he has no other option to defend himself.

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