Almost 800 swine flu cases in Malaysia and haze above Kuala Lumpur: breathing air in Malaysia becomes dangerous.

Although the Malaysian government says that they have everything under control, simple mathematics shows that there is a big problem looming: Malaysia keeps on having new H1N1 – swine flu – cases each and every day:

• imported by tourists, mainly from Australia
   
• domestic infections

The bad news however is that the swine flu is more aggressive than first said: since the many deadly cases of swine flu recorded in nearby Thailand and the Philippines, the US has stated that swine flu attacks the respiratory system more severely than the regular flu, causing pneumonia more easily than was first reported.

Add to that the haze that’s looming over Kuala Lumpur: you can smell that "somebody is burning some bushes"… Bad news for many Malaysian tourists that were expecting clear blue seas and fresh air…

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He looks like a retired French farmer full of "Joie de vivre"…

Like the French love their liberty, RPK is the only Malaysian freedom blogger with balls to write what he thinks about his beloved country Malaysia and its politicians.

All in good fun, he even jokes about us expats, or about our wives, as if expats are only men…

Unlike we expats can be poked around and take some constructive criticism, the wife of the actual Malaysian Prime Minister has a different sense of humor. That’s why she accused him of criminal defamation.

Now we all know that when you enter Australia, you have to declare and sign a paper that you have or haven’t been convicted.

If RPK failed to make such a declaration, he could be stripped of his visa and sent back to Malaysia immediately. Yet RPK is not convicted of anything in Malaysia, he only has some court cases running against him.

On the other hand, RPK can also claim Refugee status in Australia to obtain a protection visa, because all Malaysians know that RPK will be dead meat once he shows his face in Malaysia.

So if RPK is really in Australia, I hope Australians remember where they came from: convicted prisoners sent in exile… Please embrace the most funny of all almost convicted Malaysians: RPK. 

Technorati Tags: australia, France, freedom, french farmer, liberty, protection visa, raja petra, raja petra kamarudin, refugees, RPK

The political circus in Perak goes on. It all started well when voters voted and democracy ruled.

The majority was ruling nicely until the minority bought over a member of the majority and became the new majority.

As in any constitution and using normal sense, one should dissolve the government and start new elections, because no voters intended to vote for people that were about to jump ship.

Of course Malaysia does things "my way" as Mahathir would sing. So simple:

• no new election but
   
• kicking out the mentri besar because his party has no longer majority and
   
• replacing him with a mentri besar from the new so called majority.

Not to mention the numerous police interventions in and around a house of representatives and of course court and royalty has to intervene as well.

Now Najib has put the hot ball back in the camp of the sultan to solve the problem. Which as far as I understand constitution is not the right way of procedure.

Then there is another statement hearing Najib saying: there are other ways to solve the crisis in Perak than calling for new elections.

So I was wondering if this other way was already historically proven when Malaysia cut out Singapore but forgot to cut out the ‘SI’ from Singapore in the name ‘MalaySIa’.

The good news however is that this time there is no ‘P’ from Perak in Malaysia, so the name of the country can be safeguarded and Perak can be cut of:

if your eye hurts you, rip it out…