The Malaysian Insider

NOV 20 - Twitter’s been making a lot of changes lately. They’ve introduced new technologies like lists — which is kind of like a friend filter on Facebook — and a new way to share one another’s Tweets.

Usage on the company’s website has taken off like a rocket, up 1,703 per cent year-over-year in September, and that doesn’t even count people who access the service through text messaging or specialised applications on their smartphones or computers.

But today was perhaps the most radical change of all. Twitter changed its cosmically deep and evocative signature query, “What are you doing?”

Now, Twitter wants to know, “What’s happening?”

NOV 20 — When the MCA delegates decided to sack both Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek in the Oct 10 EGM (“1010 EGM”), the Chinese community stood up and took notice of the courage of the MCA delegates. This has not happened for a very long time, but what the delegates did on 1010EGM obviously earned the respect and admiration of many in the community.

But later when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the 1010 EGM decision is ultimate and must be adhered to, Ong and Chua decided to ignore it.

NOV 20 — The United States Time magazine had recently listed five things the US can learn from China.

Since Americans are so generous, Chinese people should not behave like niggards. If Americans can learn from Chinese, then Chinese people can also learn from Americans.

Moreover, isn't it a loss for Chinese if Americans have learned all of their strong points?

NOV 20 — MCA central committee member Datuk Ti Lian Ker recently made some untruthful allegations against Sin Chew Daily in his article posted on his blog. English-language daily The Star accorded the story significant space and quoted Ti’s statement.

In relation to Ti’s intentionally misleading statement, our responses are as follows:

NOV 20 — According to a recent poll, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s approval rating remains at 60 per cent. It is indeed good news. However, there are also two pieces of bad news: 74 per cent of the people are dissatisfied with the government's performance in fighting corruption and abuse of power, and Malaysia's corruption ranking has fallen to 56, from 47 last year.