Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Here's the news - No Singaporekini coming up

Professori of journalism at Nanyang Technological Univ, Mr Cherian George, asks why Malaysiakini has reached 10 years old but there is no Singaporekini.
The professori was once a senior journalist at The Straits Times.
Si mamat ni, whom I haven't met since the March 2008 general elections, can also handle photography very well (segan campur dengan orang bijak ni).
Dia punya qualifications, KJ pun kalah, saya baca pun takut:

  • PhD(Communication) The Leland Stanford Junior University 2003
  • MA University of Cambridge 1993
  • MS(Journalism) Columbia University 1990
  • BA(Hons) University of Cambridge 1989

See here and here. Mak oi.
He is well-known in Temasek after writing Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation, also the name of his blog. He was referring to little red dot, where the temperature for everything can be controlled! Hahaha, I like, I guess government didn't.

During 2008 Malaysian GE, he was in Kelantan for three days to see first-hand how things were. Oh yeah, he was there with his wife, Zuraidah Ibrahim.
Zuraidah, by the way, is (gulp) my boss. She is Foreign Editor at The Straits Times.
She was formerly the Political Editor - interesting Wikipedia entry. Tak tahu siapa yang tulis.

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