Bloggers, sued, Malaysia...

International headlines! This is how the wire agencies look at the law suits against Malaysian bloggers,
with some treating it as a test case for this part of the world:

SOURCE: Associated Press via International Herald Tribune, Jan 18, 2007

SOURCE: Reuters India, Jan 18, 2007

SOURCE: BBC News Chinese, Jan 18, 2007

SOURCE: Al-Jazeera English, Jan 18, 2007

SOURCE: Yahoo!/Kyodo News, Jan 18, 2007

Parliamentary Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang has a take on this that has gone on to become the central piece of the stories filed by AP and Reuters separately, as mentioned above.

Kit says this will result in "expensive litigation that can cripple the ordinary blogger and fail to contribute in defining the legal rights of bloggers and citizen journalists".

And Malaysian bloggers are evaluating the situation earnestly, see Technorati tracking.