Intellectual Property Law

Malaysian Law Firm?s Chinese New Year Gathering

Posted on March 05, 2008
It has been more and more common now a day for Malaysian law firms to organise gathering during various festive seasons, especially Chinese New Year. It is always a great idea to organise such gathering as it is a very good way to keep in touch with your clients, former staff, friends, former classmates and those who [...

Defamation Law in Malaysia

Posted on February 29, 2008
  As mentioned in my previous post, one of the greatest risk faced by bloggers is defamation suit. For example, one of the well known Malaysian blogger, Jeff Ooi was sued by NST for defamation in mid of January 2007. Therefore, I would think it is important to have some basic understanding of the law of defamation [...

Xin Yi is 7 months now?

Posted on February 28, 2008
Amazing ! When you see your baby grow up day by day. The warmness and sweetness is just undescribable. Xin Yi has been a very nice and good girl so far (not much of trouble to me as a father, hahah!). She is always so joyful and cheerful.  Through out this fatherhood thus far, I notice that baby [...

Is it an offence to hold hand in the park in Malaysia?

Posted on February 23, 2008
As mentioned in my last post, I will be writing on the above issue.  In may incidents, you may hear that couple was fined by local town council for behaving in a disorderly manner in the park in Malaysia. Some alleged that they were just holding hand...

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Is it an offence to kiss in Malaysian taxi?

Posted on February 14, 2008
Today is Valentine’s Day, read this post before you kiss your girl friend…  I was informed by some of my foreign friends that they were surprised when they saw the “no kissing” sign in Malaysian taxi. Why is passenger prohibited to kiss in Malaysian taxi? Is it an offence? On another event, you may also hear of couple being fined [...

How to choose a legal firm for chambering?

Posted on February 13, 2008
Sorry for not updating my blog for quite sometimes as I was away for Chinese New Year break.   As mentioned in my previous post, chambering is a period where you must undergo before becoming a qualified lawyer. The next issue is how do you choose a legal firm to do your chambering? What factors effect your decision [...

Copyscape - searching for who has plagiarised your article/post

Posted on February 04, 2008
Do you know copying one’s content/article and reproduce it in your site without the consent of the author is against the law? such wrongdoing call plagiarism. Plagiarism is an act of copying another person’s work into your own work without the permission of the former...

Can you be sued for comments left by your readers?

Posted on January 29, 2008
Bloggers like journalists (of course, one should not equivalent them) face many legal risk as their writing are published publicly, amongst others, defamation suit is one of the greatest risk.  It is obvious that if a blogger makes a defamatory remark in his blog, he is bound to be held liable for what he says...

What motivates most bloggers to blog?

Posted on January 22, 2008
Why do you want to blog? for hobby? for money? or got nothing better to do. I guess there are many reasons why one blogs. Once I read a book, the author said there are, in fact, 4 main reasons motivate one to blog. 1. Fame Most of the people want to be famous...

Malaysian Dot Com Youth Search Winner is?

Posted on January 19, 2008
As you know the award presentation ceremony for the Malaysian Dot Com Youth Search Award was held on yesterday which was a working day for most of the people. As such, the crowd attended was not many (less than 200). Below are some of the pictures and brief report from the ceremony...

A real life story of Never Judge A Book by It?s Cover

Posted on January 19, 2008
I received this inspiring video from my best friend, June. She posted it on the Fun Wall of my Facebook. Immediately after viewing the video, my comment sent to June was: “This is so inspiring. It tells me that don’t judge a book by it’s cover...

Asian Law Students International Conference 2008

Posted on January 17, 2008
I consider this as a remarkable milestone in my blogging journey. I have only started blogging for about 6 months and yet was invited as a speaker in one of the Table Discussion sessions of an international law conference, i.e. Commission on Blogger’s Right...

Legal Career Fair 2008 - The 1st in the Malaysian legal industry

Posted on January 14, 2008
Usually I will make use of my leisure time during the weekend to write more post. However, you may be surprised why there was no post at all for the last couple of days. Last Saturday (12 Jan 2008) was a hectic but yet excited day for me… There were two monumental events occurred on that day...

Bloggers sued or arrested in some other countries

Posted on January 10, 2008
Following my previous post entitled “Malaysian Bloggers arrested in 2007“, I have now listed some of the cases where the bloggers were sued or arrested in certain countries. I have intentionally excluded Chinese Bloggers as there are just too many cases occurred in China to be mentioned here...

Malaysian Bloggers arrested in 2007

Posted on January 06, 2008
Blogging is prevelent in Malaysia. Although there is no statistic to show the number of bloggers exist in Malaysia, the arrest and suit against bloggers in Malaysia is not difficult to gather. Below are the events effected the rights of Malaysian bloggers in 2007 which I could find online...

The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search

Posted on January 04, 2008
As you can see that I have placed the voting banner at the top right corner of my blog as well as www.eLawyer.com.my If you support my law blog and think that I should deserve this award, you can click on the said banner to vote for me both at my blog and eLawyer...

Sitiawan Kong Biang ??

Posted on January 01, 2008
Have you eaten a kind of hard biscuit, so hard so that I can use it to hurt you by throwing it at your head. I guess you have not. However, such biscuit smells so good and tastes just excellence which is likely makes you can’t stop eating it once you have tried it...

Malaysian Webmaster Gathering at Pavillion on 29 December 2007

Posted on December 29, 2007
This is my 2nd webmaster gathering in this year. The 1st one was in KL Sentral.  However, strictly speaking this time is not a real gathering but rather an invitation from Exabytes to view a movie in GSC, Pavillion. Thank you so much Exabytes for their kindness and generousity...

Sitiawan Settlement Museum

Posted on December 28, 2007
On 22 Dec 2007, my friend, Yen San and her boy friend, Ee Keong and family have visited me in Sitiawan. I was so glad that they actually came all the way from Penag. I brought them around few places in Sitiawan, especially those places which are tourist hot spot and those palces with good foods…hahaha! Sitiawan is a [...

What are cyber crimes?

Posted on December 25, 2007
Cyber crime generally means a wrongful act committed using computer as a tool or a target of the said act or both. Breaching of cyber laws is a clear example of committing cyber crime in Malaysia. In fact, different countries will have diffrent set of rulings covering various cyber crimes...

My favorite Christmas Song - Silent Night

Posted on December 18, 2007
Marry Christmas! I have done a vast search on youtube, there are hundreds of songs on “Silent Night” but I only managed to find 2 versions which I really like. The 1st version is in movie format displaying the situation of the birth of Jesus…If you read about this in Bible then you will find the scene [...

Blogger Unite on the day of Dec 17

Posted on December 16, 2007
I think this is a very good move by blogcatalog which encourages all the blogger to blog about a good deed that the blogger has done on 17 Dec. What good deed have you done? Please share with me. I love to hear from you, be it a small kindness, like making donation to begger, helping [...

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