Malaysia Society Weblog

Bravo to Doha Asian Games opening ceremony for showing the multicultural side of Asia.

I was totally surprised that they were having Chinese lion dance and other cultural performance during their opening event, especially when Qatar is very much an Islamic country.

Malaysia should really learn from that, claiming ourselves as a liberate Muslim country but getting more and more radical these days are not the best idea to show the true colors as a multicultural country that Malaysia is supposed to be.

KTemoc has a good point, Doha shows more “Truly Asia” spirit than Malaysia Commonwealth Games in 1998.

Former Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is set to run for parliament during the next election, which will be no later than March 2009. [Bloomberg]

It will be interesting to see whether Malaysians will still welcome back the once influential leader, who was jailed in 1998 for some ridiculous reasons, very much a victim of stupid Malaysia politics.

Because of the jail terms Anwar will not be able to compete for parliament seats until 2008, perhaps just in time for the next election.