19 October 2007 Thank you, YB Teresa Kok, for your blog posting (http://teresakok.com/2007/ 09/15/mixed- reaction- to-marital- rape-reform/) and the opportunity for the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG)* to clarify our position on marital rape. We commend the effort put in by the Special Select Committee on the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code…
Full Moon Celebration for Baby Yoke Shan 小钰珊满月了！
Dear friends, I have attended many interesting events lately and have taken some photos but I don’t have time to upload it to my blog. Below are some photos of baby Yoke Shan, taken in Klang on last Friday, 12th October. She was born with two arms but now left one. Poor baby. Our comrade…
Sabah Trip – Dinner at Tawau (13 October 2007)
Entertainer Joins DAP
Blind singer Alfred Ho has joined the Democratic Action Party. He did so after experiencing repeated discrimination because of his disability. MP for Cheras, Tan Kok Wai, MP for Bukit Bintang, Fong Kui Lun and I held a press conference to welcome Alfred to the party. Alfred Ho, despite his disability, showed he was in…
Uphill battle for fair deal
Press statement by Alfred Ho, October 13, 2007, at Kuala Lumpur. Allow me first to introduce myself. I am a blind individual in my 50s and a singer, guitarist by profession. I have been in this profession for more than 20 years and my forte is singing old western favourites. I also sing in several…
Suhakam’s hands-off attitude slammed
Press Release by BERSIH, 10 October 2007 BERSIH is outraged over Suhakam’s hands-off attitude over the Batu Buruk incident in which two men were shot by a police officer amidst a bloody crackdown on a public assembly on electoral reform. Suhakam’s refusal to conduct a public inquiry amounts to abating the violent suppression of the…
Nazri is urged to table Witness Protection Bill coming sitting of Parliament
Press Statement by Teresa Kok, MP for Seputeh and DAP National Publicity Secretary on 8th October 8, 2007 in Kuala Lumpur I am appalled to read the statement made by Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz that the informants of “Linggam” video clip can be accorded full government protection, including change of identities as stipulated under the…
Illegal temples in residential areas
The following is the contents of a email to me. The writer shall remain anonymous. Hi Teresa, Hope to find you in good health but am sorry to have to bring up some grouses regarding temples in residential areas. The example I am going to use is Oversea Union Garden which is your constituency and…