Civil Rights
Web Index to be released soon, includes Malaysia for first time
The World Wide Web Foundation, established by Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, will be launching its 2013 Web Index in London on Nov 22, with Malaysia included for the first time in the study which looks at how the Web empowers people and delivers socio-economic impact.
US spying, and casting the first stone
The Malaysian Government said it will investigate allegations that the US Embassy in KL is actually a spy station, finally acting after a string of revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden, but its reticence may have come from the fact that its record on privacy is hardly spotless, writes A. Asohan.
Civil rights leader S. Ambiga fields questions on Yahoo!
Digital media portal, Yahoo!, plans to host an online question-and-answer session with prominent lawyer-activist Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan today (June 14) at 3pm, and is aimed at enabling regular Malaysians to connect and interact with newsmakers of the day.
