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Wow.. this tool is so fascinating! You can now easily create the above “online note” in just few simple step.

To find out more design of online notes and as to how to create them, please visit http://www.itypeit.net/ 

This site obtains PR4 in less than 2 years. This is another vivid example of a success website i.e. don’t think of how to make money from your site 1st, instead you should think how your site can help and benefit others. This is what it takes to make a site huge success.

Offence                                                                                                Sentence

#Being member of an unlawful assembly                                    6 months jail or fine or both  

#Rioting                                                                                             6 months jail or fine or both 

#Personating a public servant                                                       2 years jail or fine or both 

#Obstructing public servant in discharge of his

  public functions                                                                               3 months jail or fine or both

#Giving or fabricating false evidence in

  judicial proceeding                                                                          7 years jail and fine 

#Possession of current coin by a person who

 knew it to be counterfeit when he became possessed

 of it                                                                                                   7 years jail and fine 

The long waited Malaysian Webmaster Gathering is back again.

Being a blogger for almost a year, I have only attended 2 bloggers/webmasters gathering. Both of them were organised by Exabytes, one was held at KL Sentral in November 2007 and another was held at Pavillion in December 2007.

In fact, what I enjoyed most by attending these gathering was meeting new friends. And I do still keep in touch with some of them.

People who attended the gathering are usually young, dynamic, aggresive and smart. To be frank, sometimes, I feel myself is a bit “too old” amongst them. Haha!

Nevertheless, this time the Webmaster Gathering is going to be held at the Curve, Mutiara Damansara in a restaurant named “The Apartment” on 5 July 2008 from 12pm to 6pm. The seat is only limited to 40. Admission is FREE.

As usual, this time some famous webmasters will be speaking during the event, including Liewcf, Roha from Microsoft, Alang and others.

For more information , please visit http://getfound.com.my/webmaster-gathering-the-curve-5th-july/ 

This time, I am looking forward to see my old blogger friends and also hope to meet some new friends too. So, are you coming?   

P/S: When you see me there, please come and say hello so that we can take picture together.

After you have decided what kind of business entity that you want to use to start your business (refer to my previous post), now it is the time you need to pick a good name for your business or company.

Can you just choose any company name as you like? is there any guideline to be look at when you are deciding a name?

Under section 22(1) of the Companies Act 1965, a company name will not be allowed by the CCM if in the opinion of the Registrar such name is “undesirable” or is a name that the Minister directed the Registrar not to accept. 

The key point here is what constitute “undesirable”? It seems very subjective in nature.

However, based on some decided cases and authorities, a company name is “undesirable” when such name:

1. is ”calculated to misled the public”;

2. is a name of “obscene in nature”;

3. might “offend a freindly state”;

4. may offend “public policy”;

5. may offend “public or members of a religious group”;

6. may “confuse the public” (due to its similarity to other company or sound deceptive).

Of course the above list is not exclusive.    

After your proposed name is approved, you may reserve the proposed company name for a period of 3 months under section 22(7) of the Companies Acr 1965. During such reservation period, no one is entitled to register under the reserved name. 

 As such, next time when you want to think about a name for your company make sure your proposed name does not fall under any of the above categories, otherwise, the chance of being rejected by the CCM is very high.

As mentioned in my previous post, I will pen down my speech given during the ALSIC 2008.

To be frank, since the event was held few months ago,  I have misplaced the main speech paper and now could not able to allocate it. However, I still keep some points of the full speech in a note book, which I think are beneficial to my readers.

Listed below are some points in my speech:

1. Statistic:

Based on Technorati’s statistic, as at May 2007 the top blogging nations are - Japanese (37%), English (36%), Chinese (8%) and Italian (3%).

There are 3 billions websites in the world, 70 million web blogs, 120,000 new blog created per day and 10,800 blog being updated per hour.

Amongst the web blogs, the 4 main topics being written are entertainment, personal journal, education and health/fitness/pregnancy/parenting. (Not surprising law is not a popular topic at all, hahah!)

2. Two main ways where bloggers’ rights are effected:

In summary, I found that there are 2 main “weapons” used by government in different countries to “handle” bloggers:

1st, in the countries whereby the political atmosphere is more conservative, bloggers are always being prosecuted under the offence of “rebellious”, “threaten the national security”, “seditious”and son on. These can be commonly seen in China.

2nd, in a more liberal country, government chooses to take civil action against the bloggers, e.g. Singapore, Taiwan and US. For more cases, please see my previous post.

3. How to preserve bloggers’ right?

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