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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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. […]

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Blogging is prevelent in Malaysia. Although there is no statistic to show the number of bloggers exist in Malaysia, the arrest and suit against bloggers in Malaysia is not difficult to gather.
Below are the events effected the rights of Malaysian bloggers in 2007 which I could find online. Please do help to add to the […]

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