101 East - Malaysia fuel protest - 10 July 08 - Part 2

The soaring cost of oil is squeezing motorists and consumers the world over. In Asia, it's forcing governments to slash fuel subsidies, prompting people to take to the streets in protest.

One of the largest cuts to subsidised fuel has been in Malaysia. This week, 101 East looks at the social and economic impacts of rising fuel costs.

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[davethewebbuilder]

Time for change is now, very low confidence in the system, the government needs to go, Just take a look what is happening in Tunisia, people power. Now we have the internet now finally we have the tool to make a difference to our lives. I say lets shut down the British Government

[LedgerTheJoker]

@loboyving Hahaha... PHILIPINES is a poor country unlike MALAYSIA. Even your army don't have the money to buy latest jet fighter to protect your country. Sabah doesn't deserve to be part of you. Let MALAYSIA manage Sabah OK. Do you wanna have war now??

[loboyving]

Sabbah belong to the PHILIPPINES.... Sulu is in the Philippines and Sabbah is part of Sulu that is why Sabbah is belong to the Philippine Island....

Malaysian Goverment are EVIL... They want sabbah even thought they know that it's not belong to them... F u c k malaysian goverment... let''s have warrrrrrrrrrrr.........

[hongster76]

again DAP rep fails, the host even insinuated the DAP guy to point out Petronas' books is only shown to the PM, which lacks check/balance. but he went into 'lack of public transportation' and 'what we could have done'. i hope the DAP guys r better administrators than they r politicians, for UMNO, its the other way around lol

[negarakukuku]

The Last Emperor = THE LAST UMNO Racist, the curse of ALTANTUYA!

[negarakukuku]

JUSTICE FOR ALTANTUYA!

[greatersomalia]

Northern Somalia has oil invest in us and you would not worry about oil ever again...

[terungpisang]

Malaysian PM is an ASSHOLE and the ministers are DUMBASS ! Those who vote for them are SHITHEAD... period !

[streettech73]

I love M'sia,I 'm proud to be born here until one day some asshole ministers took over and this whole country not as beautiful as last time.I rarely see smile on people face accept for those political fucker faces.

[mnecmonic]

i'm a m'sian,and my hometown's s'wak,just wanna say the prime minister is such a mindless person, s'wak in m'sia serve as the largest state of the country, we have the most natural resources, oil,timber,soil...etc, but government is doing nothing to keep my fellow stateman leavin an easy life, i'm not a politician, i'm not descriminating my country, but msia gov has taken a wrong step to curb the inflation in the country so transparent that even someone as naif like my in political issue can see