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Dear Tun Mahathir

Former PM Tun Mahathir is at it again.

This time, he was quoted by Malaysiakini as saying that Pakatan Rakyat would win a snap state election in Perak and thus he is against it being held to resolve the political impasse.

"I think the opposition… well, not the opposition… I think Pakatan is going to win. So [...]

VMY 2007: Hello, Tengku Adnan?

The fact is that, blogosphere does exist in Malaysia to become the "eyes-and-ears" for the authority in concern, providing "free" feedback which if given swift response or immediate attention, indirectly enhance reputation or at least contribute to positive outlook.

Let me give you an example. Early this month, I picked up an entry from Jakarta-based-Malaysia [...]

Visit Malaysia Year 2007: A foreign-based journo’s perspective

In conjunction with the Visit Malaysia Year 2007, Malaysia Tourism Board invited over 190 journalists from all over the world to witness the opening of Floral Festival 2007.

One of them, Nila Tanzil, a colleague of blogger Ong Hock Chuan, a Malaysian currently based in Jakarta, represented Indonesia’s Surya Citra Television Corporation (SCTV) with a producer [...]

AirAsia: 1,000,000 free seats

In 2005, low-cost carrier AirAsia offered 2,000,000 zero fare seats.

This year, in conjunction with VMY 2007, another 1,000,000 seats for free, a few days after the announcement of Air Asia X.

(SOURCE: AirAsia)

As 2007 is the Visit Malaysia Year, this time, I opted for domestic destination.

To my fellow readers and friends across Asian countries, welcome [...]

Air Asia X

To Tony Fernandes, X doesn’t stand for Xpress but Xtra long.

(SOURCE: BBC, 5 January 2007)

"We are proud in being able to continue to lead and revolutionize aviation industry in Asia, just as we did with AirAsia," [...]

"Ultimately the launch of AirAsia X will bring independence to the long haul low cost traveler by [...]

No F***

Poor Americans.

The Minister explained since they belong to the minority group as compared to 17.5 million tourists, it’s a negligible case as reported by Malaysiakini.

Or in another word, what he was trying to say is: I can’t be bothered!

Niamah!!!

Fly World Express!

The Star SMS alert at 5:32pm.
Fly Asian Xpress (FAX) has been given air traffic rights to operator long haul services to in’tl routes not flown by MAS to Asia, Australia and Europe.

I’m truly thrilled. First by the impending long haul budget experience and hats off to this real practitioner of Blue Ocean Strategy!

How to create [...]

Fly World Express?

The Edge Daily reported that AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes is scheduled to call for a press conference on Friday (Jan 5) on "a revolutionary service that will change the face of aviation travel forever".

It’s Fly Asian Express (FAX), not AirAsia as reported earlier, an executive told Dow Jones Newswires.

Some tourists in Malaysia …

A red hot level warning to Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, as reported by BBC.
Newspaper columnist Dina Zaman says some Malaysians are looking to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi to take a tougher line.

"They don’t think he’s authoritative enough," she believes.

"You need someone to actually sit down and say, ‘Look you [...]

Visit Malaysia Year 2007 … (1)

The Visit Malaysia Year 2007 Campaign, a grand plan to agreesively develop and market Malaysia as a major tourist destination and o populate and promote tourism-related activities, programmes and events showcasing the uniqueness of Malaysia as a tourist destination is about 12 days away.

While lots of money and efforts had been spent and wasted to [...]