Bibliobibuli

The police raided the office of political cartoonist Zunar (left) in Brickfields on Friday and seized 66 copies of his collection (very a...

The Home Ministry has apparently seized* three copies of the Body 2 Body: A Malaysian Queer Anthology published last year, from KL book...

Bizarrely, (withholding the books) probably meant we sold more books. We wouldn’t have done this well otherwise ... Palgrave Macmillan exe...

Malaysia and Singapore are just simply two funny, intertwined brothers. Can’t find it here? Just cross the border and get it. Good simple fr...

I must express my concern over the arrest of author Alan Shadrake (75) in Singapore on defamation charges and contempt of course following ...

It is quite astonishing that a successful and globalised country like Malaysia should contemplate banning a mainstream account of its recent...

The Home Ministry took 4 months to make up its mind , but now Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times by Barry Wain has bee...

I've known about the Home Ministry opening packets of books in the mail and confiscating them on whim for some time, but have usually la...

The evidence suggests that there is a systemic, consistent effort to suppress any efforts to break BN’s hegemony on information and power. ....

One of Amir Muhammad's books has now fallen victim to this plague of bookshop snafflings.  He received this fax from MPH Distributors te...

Dear Malaysian Home Ministry, the message is a simple one (and it's not the first time I have blogged this ) : STOP HARRASSING BOOKSHOP...

*Sigh* - here's another incident in which books have been seized   - oops - "confiscated". This time it's the Seremban p...

To update you on the several banned-unbanned book sagas ongoing in Malaysia at the moment, so to keep you up to date  ... First, the High ...

We urge other authors and publishers of banned book to write to the home ministry to ask for reasons on why their books have been banned. ...

I am extremely happy to hear of Sisters-in-Islam's victory in the High Court yesterday . T he Home Minister’s order banning the book Mus...

Yes, it seems that there is a going to be a ban on the book Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times . The Malay Mail repo...

800 copies of an authoritative new biography of our former PM entitled Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times have been he...

How can a book be banned - when the Home Minister apparently did not apparently even bother to read it first? This was the question raised...

Malaysia once more hits the world news for all the wrong reasons : Malaysian authorities have confiscated more than 15,000 Bibles in recent...

This began as a footnote to my post on the American Library Association's Banned Books week and grew into a sound off, so am posting it...