Poskod Malaysia

Hello all! Another week in the endless news cycle:

• FUUYOH: the Home Ministry has achieved a 100% success rate in meeting its KPIs! Meanwhile, corruption and thuggery by the cops continue. (The Star)
• Tenang by-election shenanigans: the shadowy, supposedly-non-partisan 1Malaysia NGO has appeared, handing out goodies and posters of Najib. (Malaysiakini)
• Yesterday’s “Hormati Suara Rakyat Selangor”, a rally against the appointment of state secretary Mohamed Khusrin Munawi, was a rainy, 300-people affair … (Free Malaysia Today)
• Debates for the constitutional amendments that Selangor is trying to pass over the Khusrin affair started this morning, and were suitably festive. (Malaysiakini)
• Confused about this constitutional-amendment business? Here’s a good primer about what’s going on, and why. (The Malaysian Insider)
• In the UK, undercover cops go too far: to infiltrate environmental protestors, one of them married an activist. Them pigs are disgusting. (The Independent)
• Leaks galore: a set of documents acquired by Al-Jazeera reveal the intricacies of the Mid-East Peace Process. They show a weak Palestinian side, bowing more and more to Israel’s demands. (The Guardian)
• Dubai’s “The World”, a manmade archipelago of islands shaped like the countries of the globe, is sinking into the sea. The end is nigh! (The Telegraph)
• Genetically-engineered wine, anyone? To overcome new pesticide bans in the EU, vintners might be forced to modify their vines for enhanced hardiness to disease. (BBC News)
• The Pope: marriage is not a right! (Newser)
• The recently unveiled Chinese stealth fighter probably uses US tech, acquired through Chinese agents systematically salvaged a downed F-117 Nighthawk in Serbia. Those sneaky Chinese dudes! (CBS News) 
• A glimpse into the internal implosion at the New Straits Times, a once-great paper brought low by political campurtangan. (Uppercaise)
• A 12-year-old gives his mom The Talk, about where blogs and tweets come from. Heh. (McSweeneys)
• Sexy Batman comics. (Hark, A Vagrant!)

(Image from Hark, A Vagrant!)