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Yet another example of how technology can be abused surface in Kelantan. This time it involves a girl who posed nude with his boyfriend with their photo taken with a mobile phone. When the phone was sent for servicing, their photo was found on sale in VCD format. Why haven't they learn about dangers of technology from the Tammy episode in Singapore? It is good that such news get published in newspapers because it will only serve to warn people of such dangers.

Related to this incident is that females should learn how to say no if they felt uncomfortable to do things their boyfriends wanted. In this case, now she is left to pick up her life again. She will forever be the butt of ridicule in her own village.

In Sipadan, Sabah, corals in an area the size of two tennis courts were destroyed after sand suffocated them. This occured after a barge laden with construction materials docked in the island for a new development. The Chief Minister is now demanding a full investigations. What is more intriguing is the Chief Minister admissions that he was in the dark regarding the proposed development. Sabah is a semi-autonomous region of Malaysia. Hence any development in the state should be directed through the state government. If the head of state government does not know about a proposed development, something is seriously wrong. Are there other things that he doesn't know? Surely an investigation should be carried out not only on why the Sabah Parks employee failed in their duty to protect the corals, but also how a project got to be approved when the head of state government is in the dark.

This bring us back to PM Badawi's call for transparency and accountability. Neither the IPCMC nor the ombudsman has materialised. One wonder whether the people will get to know the results of the still pending investigations on the Jasin MP's call to 'close one-eye' when a consigment of logs were found to have breached the law. I will not be surprised if nothing materialised from all the above. So far the Badawi's government had not been transparent, at best translucent if not opaque!