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Malaysia or Malaysaja? Part 2: Clarifying and reconciling the Constitution
By NURUL IZZAH ANWAR Since I wrote my 31 August 2010 article, titled ?The Ultimate Malaysian Debate: Malaysia or Malaysaja??, which called for a constructive engagement with Perkasa, and with the stated purpose to seek clarification and not challenge or repeal the constitution, my invitation to Perkasa has not only been rejected but countless accusations [...]
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Double standards on ?illegal? DVD charge
Perak: MB, BN Adun open to similar illegal DVD charge By Clara Chooi | The Malaysian Insider IPOH, Sept 7 ? With a Perak DAP assemblyman facing the possibility of being charged in court for his unapproved DVD production, the authorities seem to have found themselves caught in a Catch-22 situation. Questions now center on [...]
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Forum: What Does It Mean to be Malaysian?
In conjunction with celebrating both the National Day and the Malaysia Day, a forum featuring the following speakers will be held on: Date: 8 Sept 2010 (Wednesday) Time: 8 pm Venue: Crystal Crown Hotel, 12 Lorong Utara A (Off Jalan Utara), Petaling Jaya, Selangor Speakers: 1) Hannah Yeoh – State Assemblyperson for Subang Jaya 2) [...]
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Is there any Minister concerned enough about the escalating rhetoric of race and religion to propose in Cabinet tomorrow a ?Say No to Racism? nation-wide campaign
The common response to my suggestion yesterday that the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak should propose to the Cabinet meeting tomorrow a nation-wide ?Say No to Racism? campaign headed by him to give flesh to his 1Malaysia slogan and policy as well as his ?Zero tolerance for Racism? declaration is one of skepticism and [...]
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Why do Finland?s schools get the best results?
By Tom Burridge BBC World News America, Helsinki Last year more than 100 foreign delegations and governments visited Helsinki, hoping to learn the secret of their schools’ success. In 2006, Finland’s pupils scored the highest average results in science and reading in the whole of the developed world. In the OECD’s exams for 15 year-olds, [...]
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Burma?s poll farce
Financial Times September 5, 2010 Burma?s elections are shaping up to be the detestable sham the dictatorship?s sternest critics have warned. Unlike those held ? and then callously ignored ? in 1990, no credible opposition is running. Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won the 1990 poll, is a prisoner after spending [...]
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Zero tolerance for racism or zero action?
By Thomas Lee It is nearly a month since the controversial racist remarks allegedly made by Johor school principal Siti Inshah Mansor on 12 August 2010 was highlighted in the media, but no action has so far been taken on the case. On the contrary, the case involving 27-year-old rapper Wee Meng Chee, popularly known [...]
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What social contract?
by Clive Kessler Malaysian Insider September 06, 2010 ?Najib warns against questioning ?social contract?,? it is reported. This claim is plain and simple ?historical revisionism?. To what ?social contract? precisely is the PM referring? In the 1980s a new political idea was created: that of ?Ketuanan Melayu?, of Malay ascendancy, supremacy, domination. Thereafter, especially from [...]
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Is Najib prepared to put his 1Malaysia policy to the test by leading a nation-wide ?Say No to Racism? campaign starting with errant Umno leaders, government officials and Utusan Malaysia?
Although the Director-General of Education Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom has issued a circular dated August 26 to all school principals and teachers warning of action to be taken for racist remarks in schools, the absence of action against the two school principals in Johore and Kedah who had made racist remarks stands out like [...]
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Improve Our Schools, Not Tinker With Examinations
By M. Bakri Musa In about two weeks nearly half a million Malaysian school children will be sitting for their UPSR, the national examination taken at the end of Year Six. Today there is raging debate on abolishing this as well as the PMR (taken at Year Nine) examination. A decision is expected within weeks. [...]
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Call for return of civility, reason and rationality in public discourse and an end to any form of racial or religious slurs in public domain particularly on the social media and Internet
The rise and frequency of instances of racial and religious slurs in the public domain particularly on the social media and the Internet must be a matter of grave concern to all Malaysians. All right-thinking Malaysians regardless of political affiliation should join hands to call and work for a return of civility, reason and rationality [...]
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Seeing the back of Musa: An answer to a prayer
By Tunku Abdul Aziz I hardly ever receive presents because, I suppose, I rarely ever give any. I do not even bother to celebrate my own birthday; it comes and goes completely unnoticed. When on the odd occasion I do receive a present for delivering an anti-corruption and ethical governance speech, I treasure it even [...]
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Revisiting the Bumiputera corporate equity issue
By Lim Teck Ghee More than five years have passed since the Asli corporate study report revealed that Bumiputera ownership of corporate equity in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange had exceeded the 30 per cent target. The study?s findings of a 45 per cent Bumiputera share were based on a different method of measurement compared [...]
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No place for God?
By Thomas Lee Professor Stephen William Hawking, the author of the 1988 runaway world best seller A Brief History of Time, has declared the dreadful finality that there is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe. Britain’s most famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist had asserted previously that a belief in [...]
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Some Mothers Do ?Ave ?Em
By Tunku Abdul Aziz What a charade. And what tragic depths of professional incompetence the recent resumption of the coroner?s inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock had demonstrated for the world to see. There is a lot to laugh at in Najib?s 1Malaysia, but sadly for all the wrong reasons. As an observer, [...]
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Why double standards against Namewee, questioned for over 10 hours, for his anti-racist outburst as compared to treatment for the two errant school principals?
Four questions need to be asked in the Nameweek?s ?Nah? videoclip controversy. Firstly, is the three-minute video ?Nah? uploaded on YouTube by rapper Wee Meng Chee better known as Namewee seditious? I would say no. Secondly, is the video racist? I would also say no, unless an anti-racist response has also become ?racist? in the [...]
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Teo says surau row nadir in her life
By Debra Chong September 04, 2010 The Malaysian Insider PETALING JAYA, Sept 4 ? Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching has revealed that she broke down over her surau visit controversy because she thought she had done something to make the Malays hate DAP and caused terrible hardship to the surau committee members. The young first-term [...]
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?Namewee is a uniting factor?
Mariam Mokhtar Malaysian Mirror Friday, 03 September 2010 If Namewee (Wee Meng Chee) is prosecuted for his music-video, then two mixed messages are being sent out by the government: The first is that the authorities practise double-standards. The second is that it was only because of Namewee’s ‘intervention’ that the government sat up and took [...]
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Hishamuddin should not act both as prosecutor and judge to pass judgment that Nurul Izzah had committed the offence of sedition, dictating and usurping the powers of the Police, AG?s Chambers and judiciary
I am shocked that the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has acted both as prosecutor and judge to unilaterally and arbitrarily pass judgment that the PKR MP for Lembah Pantai, Nurul Izzah Anwar has committed the offence of sedition for questioning the entrenched sensitive issue of Article 153 of the Constitution with her challenge [...]
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Rising racism, 53 years on
By David KL Quek This year, I became a senior citizen. I can now withdraw my EPF savings and I qualify for some discounts for travel and surprisingly even for some buffet meals at some eateries. But as I ponder upon ‘retirement’, it is sad to see the Malaysia that I know and live in, [...]
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