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1Care: What ails Malaysia?s healthcare system?
? Mustafa K. Anuar The Malaysian Insider Feb 04, 2012 FEB 4 ? Supposedly based on the UK National Health Service (NHS), the 1Care scheme is said to be aimed at financing the supposedly increasing costs of public health care while making it still affordable to the lower-income group. But we fear that, like most [...]
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Mat Zain: Cops can determine ?within hours? if NFC funded umrah
By Shannon Teoh The Malaysian Insider Feb 04, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 ? A former senior officer questioned today the police?s reluctance to act against Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil?s family in the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) scandal, saying it should only take ?hours? to determine if they had misused project funds for their [...]
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DAP calls to Najib ? convene in mid-Feb RoundTable Conference of all political parties, religions and NGOs to condemn all acts of religious desecration, particularly the dastardly incidents of pig?s head outside mosques to provoke racial and religious strife
DAP calls on the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak to convene in mid-February a RoundTable Conference of all political parties, religions and NGOs to reaffirm moderation and condemn all acts of religious desecration, particularly the dastardly incidents of pig’s head outside mosques, to provoke racial and religious strife. It must be the concern of [...]
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Najib at bay
Economist Feb 4th 2012 Politics in Malaysia – Good intentions are not enough for a leader at odds with his party KUALA LUMPUR WHEN the leader of the Malaysian opposition, Anwar Ibrahim, was acquitted by a high court judge last month on controversial charges of sodomy, supporters in the government of the reforming prime minister, [...]
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Unity
- by Clement Ting - The Malaysian Insider Feb 02, 2012 FEB 2 ? Ever since DS Najib took office on April 3, 2009, ?unity? is yet another word used on slogans without much effort to embrace the word for what it truly means. Let?s look at the latest and hottest slogan promoted by our [...]
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Anti-1 Care group demands Putrajaya kill proposed healthcare scheme
By Clara Chooi The Malaysian Insider Feb 02, 2012 PETALING JAYA, Feb 2 ? The newly-formed Citizens? Healthcare Coalition (CHC) came out for the first time today to demand the government shelve its proposed ?1 Care? insurance scheme, warning that its implementation would spell ?disaster? for Malaysia?s healthcare system. The pact insisted that the present [...]
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Jika Mempunyai Peluang, Saya Akan Menyertai DAP
Oleh Ahmad Tajuddin Abdullah Kenyataan ini seolah-olah saya mahu menyertai politik selepas tamat pengajian. Tidak, bukan itu maksud saya. Tetapi sedikit komentar dari saya setelah memerhatikan beberapa siri kejadian yang tidak disangka-sangka oleh ramai rakyat Malaysia yang aktif memerhatikan gelombang politik tanah air muttakhir ini. Siri kemasukan ramai nama-nama besar melayu (terpulang kepada persepsi pembaca) [...]
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A Critique of the ETP: Part 3 (i) ? Execution (i) ? PEMANDU strengthens the ?know-who? cancer
By Dr. Ong Kian Ming BSc (LSE), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Duke) Teh Chi-Chang, CFA, BSc (Warwick), MBA (Cantab) Refsa Very swift progress, but is it due to PEMANDU? In its 8 ETP updates so far, PEMANDU has announced multiple new EPPs (Entry Point Projects) worth billions of ringgit of investment and creating thousands of jobs. [...]
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Malaysia: Why do I care? (Part 2)
By Clive Kessler | February 02, 2012 The Malaysian Insider FEB 2 ? Part 2: The ?philosophical? aspect. Why do I care about Malaysia? Why do I have ideas and opinions? Why do I voice them? And why do I believe that people might occasionally listen and give some heed when I do? Half the [...]
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?Umno warlords will not let Najib succeed?
By Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz | February 2, 2012 Free Malaysia Today Sometime ago I met The Economist correspondent Dr Richard Cockett who asked me whether Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak will succeed in his transformation ideas. I said, Najib will not suceed. And why not? Because Umno won?t let him succeed. Take the case [...]
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In just two years, Najib has ?given up the ghost? on his signature 1Malaysia policy
?Why must I be Malaysian first and Malay second?? This seemingly innocuous question by the Minister without Portfolio in the Prime Minister?s Department, Datuk Seri Idris Jala yesterday marked another watershed in the 34-month premiership of Datuk Seri Najib Razak. In just two years, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has ?given up the [...]
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Idris Jala: Why must I be Malaysian first?
By Clara Chooi The Malaysian Insider Feb 01, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1 ? Datuk Seri Idris Jala said today that nationality, race and religion are of equal importance when determining an individual?s true Malaysian identity. As such, the Minister in the Prime Minister?s Department said the ?Malaysian first, Malay next? dilemma should not arise [...]
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PR MPs will remind Najib in March Parliament to honour his solemn undertaking to leave ?no stone unturned? to find out the truth about Beng Hock?s death or face the censure of voters
For more than 30 months since his murder at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters at Shah Alam on July 16, 2009, justice have been denied to Teoh Beng Hock. Despite an inquest, an exhumation, a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) and solemn undertaking by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to Teoh Beng [...]
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Hassan Ali talking as if he got more than a screw loose in his head ? impossible to get angry and outraged but only feelings of great pity at the gibberish pouring out from him
Expelled PAS member and former Selangor state exco member Datuk Hassan Ali must have shocked his ?masters? when he made the wildest and most preposterous of allegations in the first stop of his nationwide roadshow in Bangi yesterday, alleging that ?once they take over Putrajaya?, DAP will merge Malaysia with Singapore into a republic and [...]
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Rebranding Rela into BN?s vanguard
? Bob Teoh The Malaysian Insider Jan 31, 2012 JAN 31 ? Under the Government Transformation Programme (GTP), Rela is to be rebranded as part of a police ?omnipresence.? But its massive build-up has raised suspicions that it may instead become Barisan Nasional?s (BN) vanguard or even an additional vote bank. ?When the chips are [...]
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PM ? when will Beng Hock?s case be given due attention?
by Teoh Lee Lan (Sister of The Late Teoh Beng Hock) 18th January 2012 It?s already 2012, could the PM please tell us when the Beng Hock case will be given due attention? We, the family of Teoh Beng Hock, will be in Putrajaya at 9 a.m., 2 February 2012 for a Court of Appeal [...]
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Breaking up wealth concentration in Malaysia
? Dr Lim Teck Ghee The Malaysian Insider FEB 1 ? The past year has seen the government and the opposition unveil their respective economic reform policies. Even if these reform policies and their attendant programmes are implemented they will not be able to resolve the country?s economic problems. This is because the policies advocated [...]
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Malaysia: Why do I care?
? Clive Kessler The Malaysian Insider Feb 01, 2012 FEB 1 ? Part 1: The personal quest Now back in Sydney yet again, after two more months in Malaysia, I sigh from both exhaustion and relief. Exhaustion, since as I age I find it ever more punishing physically just to get around Kuala Lumpur and [...]
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Beginning of a shift in racial politics
Jan 31, 2012 YOURSAY Malaysiakini ‘What is happening today is a revolt against corruption, and by extension revolt against Umno. It is not about race.’ The fracturing of the Malay community Cala: S Thayaparan’s argument is surprisingly simple – that Umno due to its various weaknesses is slowly and steadily losing its grip on the [...]
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Cuepacs steps up fight against new scheme
Stephanie Sta Maria | January 31, 2012 Free Malaysia Today KUALA LUMPUR: Cuepacs has set up an action committee as its latest step in its fight against the Public Service New Remuneration Scheme (SBPA). A 15-member team, led by Cuepacs deputy president, Azih Muda, will present a paper on its recommendations to Prime Minister, Najib [...]
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