Helen Ang

The footage doing the rounds, of the woman stripped naked and forced to do ear squats in a police lock-up, may be the spark that ignites a revolution in the way Malaysians receive and perceive their news.

SPECIAL REPORT Viewers who willingly spend on SMS to interactive cross-media TV programmes like Malaysian Idol may not be aware that there could be peripheral charges to their mobile phones.

Instead of engaging their opponents, the religiously orthodox have unfortunately chosen to close the gates of ijtihad.