THE SUN – The daughter of Sulu chieftain Jamalul Kiram III, Jacel Kiram, has taken her father’s “battle” for Sabah to cyberspace, going up against Malaysian “keyboard warriors” on micro-blogging site, Twitter. Philippine’s news portal GMANews Online yesterday reported that just one day after opening her Twitter account, @jacelkiram, the self-styled “princess” was engaged in [...]
Flowers are slowly getting laid down in the Warriors Memorial Sarawak here in Kuching as Sarawakians, particularly those in Kuching start putting flowers near the memorial as a sign of peace and support for their brothers in Sabah. According to tweets by Sarawak Bloggers (@swkblogs) which are the voluntary coordinator for Kuching, no one will [...]
Malaysian social media users have decided to take action about the intrusion by armed Sulu militants in Sabah by announcing ‘#OpsBunga’ this coming 8 Mac 2013 at 2:30PM. The ‘operation’ is aimed to show that Malaysians love their country and peace, and would prefer to show their voice through a peaceful yet meaningful way, which [...]
SIN CHEW JIT POH – Supporters of an armed bid by Filipino intruders to lay claim to a Malaysian state took their campaign to cyberspace on Monday, manipulating Google search listings to show a message backing the incursion. A Google search for the word “Sabah”, the state at the centre of Malaysia’s biggest security crisis [...]
BERNAMA – The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is looking into suitable methods to monitor and control the use of social media in the 13th general election (GE13). Deputy Information Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Maglin Dennis D’Cruz said this was to ensure that the social media would not be abused by irresponsible quarters [...]
Both Sabah and Lahad Datu gained fame on both Malaysian and the Philippines twitter timelines after Malaysian forces stormed in effort to end a self proclaimed Sulu King standoff. A check at about 5:30Pm showed that Sabah, Lahad Datu and Malaysian trended at the top ten of the Philippines twitter time line, while the words [...]
AP – Facebook Inc. says it was the target of hackers but no user information was compromised during the attack. The social media giant said Friday on its security blog that the company discovered in January that its system had been targeted in a sophisticated attack. A handful of the company’s employees visited a developer’s [...]
The hashtag #DescribeSarawak took the Malaysian twitter by storm when it trended in the Malaysian timeline this Friday afternoon. Among the top tweets were from diving sweetheard Pandalela Rinong who owns the tweet handle @pandelela_R as she said “#DescribeSarawak The peoples understand more than 4 languages and respect each other cultures and way of life♥ [...]
The young yet talented Gamelan group of SMK Matang Jaya is set to open for Tweet-Up Kuching Powered by Digi (#TwtUpKCH) this coming 8 December 2012 at the Sarawak Tourism Complex. According to the organizing chairman of the event which is organized by Sarawak Bloggers Society, Cyril Dason, the Gamelan group was spotted through a [...]
Organizers of Kuching’s and maybe Sarawak’s biggest social media gathering have finally released the official #TwtUpKCH t-shirt for 2012. According to co-organizing chairman of the event, Cyril Dason, the t-shirt design was done in such a way to blend the traditional side of Sarawak, with the ‘tech-savvy’ side of Sarawakians. He added that the t-shirts [...]