As mentioned in my previous post, I will pen down my speech given during the ALSIC 2008.
To be frank, since the event was held few months ago, I have misplaced the main speech paper and now could not able to allocate it. However, I still keep some points of the full speech in a note book, which I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Bloggers' Rights'
Speech given in the Asian Law Students Internatinal Conference 2008
June 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Bloggers' Rights · Blogging & I
The 1st Malaysian blogger charged with sedition
May 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments
In 2007 many Malaysian bloggers being sued and arrested (see here). After the general election in March 2008, government has actively show “friendliness” with bloggers, including ordering the leaders of UMNO to set up their own blogs.
Blogosphere in Malaysia has expereinced many events and changes since 2007. This is same to Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin or RPK, one of the [...]
Tags: Bloggers' Rights
Malaysian Top Blogger Was Held Liable For Defamation
March 29th, 2008 · 7 Comments
On 26 March 2008, the famous blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, founder of www.malaysia-today.net was ordered by the court to pay a sum of RM4 million and the group chief editor and editor of an opposition party’s newsletters were also ordered to pay RM3 million to the Univeristy Utara Malaysia and its vice-chancellor, Dr Nordin Kardi, as general damages [...]
Tags: Bloggers' Rights
Resolution of Bloggers’ Right (ALSIC)
March 16th, 2008 · No Comments
As mentioned in my previous post. I was invited to be one of the guest speakers in the Asian Law Students International Conference (ALSIC) on the topic of Bloggers’ Rights.
Below is the resolution drafted by the delegates from various Asian countries.
“On the issue of Blogger’s rights, we the united people from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, [...]
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Bloggers sued or arrested in some other countries
January 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Following my previous post entitled “Malaysian Bloggers arrested in 2007“, I have now listed some of the cases where the bloggers were sued or arrested in certain countries.
I have intentionally excluded Chinese Bloggers as there are just too many cases occurred in China to be mentioned here.
Based on statistic, on average there are about 120,000 new blogs created everyday. [...]
Tags: Bloggers' Rights

