http://malaysia.is-there.net Malaysia At Its Best And Worst Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:42:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In fact, the title of this post is an understatement of the true situation in Malaysia. According to a survey of 550 Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) conducted by AMI-Partners recently, only slightly more than 1 in 3 SMBs are aware of or believe in using a virtual private network ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/virtual-private-networks-not-popular-among-malaysian-small-businesses-good-or-bad/ Admittedly, Malaysia has not had many great opportunities to rise to leadership in any sort of viable or high potential industries. This is compounded by the fact that Malaysia is neither the cheapest place to run a factory, nor well-equipped and well-run enough to be host to the regional HQs ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/malaysia-and-the-halal-market/ Today, Malaysia Airlines (a.k.a. MAS) announced a RM321 million first quarter loss, blaming it squarely on higher fuel costs. Worse still is its attempt at preemptive measures by announcing that we could see the same thing next quarter (even though it has hedged most of its 2006 fuel requirement at ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/malaysia-airlines-q1-loss-good-or-bad-sign/ Since the currency peg on the Malaysian ringgit was released, we've seen the ringgit rise by around 4.8 percent to its current status of US$1 = MYR3.60. While this is predominantly a good thing given its adherence to the free market principles our Government desperately hopes will propel Malaysia's future ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/malaysian-ringgit-to-strengthen-further-students-perspective/ If you wanted to know why there has been a substantial focus on open-mindedness in my recent posts, here is the reason: Public Kissing Is A Crime in Malaysia. Moral policing? Bleh. http://malaysia.is-there.net/public-kissing-a-crime/ Homosexuality is outlawed in Malaysia (as in quite a number of ASEAN countries), but that is not going to stop a gay and lesbian "travel" guide from attempting to spice up the supposedly hot gay and lesbian scene in Malaysia. The guide in question is the Utopia Guide to Singapore, Malaysia ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/gay-and-lesbian-travel-guide-to-malaysia/ Wow. That's a 71-year difference between the guy and the gal. You wouldn't blink an eye at a difference of 10, 20, or even 30 years, but 71-years? And in Malaysia - an Islamic country, with generally conservative values - too. If you thought the marriage was all about money, think ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/33-year-old-man-with-104-year-old-woman/ If a Malay gets selected as Malaysia's representative when the Russians set off to the International Space Station in October 2007, not only will he be the first Malaysian astronaut, but also the first Muslim space traveller. And as most of you would know, devout Muslims are required to pray five ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/muslim-astronauts-and-prayer-difficulties/ Probably almost every blogger in Malaysia has touched on this subject before. About Public Service Deparment (PSD) scholars, especially medical ones, not returning to Malaysia to serve their bonds. About PSD scholars without even a speck of integrity, or loyalty to the country that educated them, for free too. So, given ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/scholars-smholars-local-vs-overseas/ Well, almost nobody in their right mind would dare say "horny" or "gatal" in public, but it seems certain ahmm... politicians are an exception. Mr. Abdul Fatah Harun, a MP from Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party - an opposition party by the way - recently said that single mothers were "gatal" when ... http://malaysia.is-there.net/single-mothers-horny/