Pet projects gone awry
It’s time we acknowledge that local automotive manufacturers will not make any serious headway if we continue to give them special treatment.
…It is ironic that consumers in arguably the largest car market in Asean pay through their nose when they buy cars.It is ridiculous to the extreme. Why do I say [...]
Model apex varsity after NUS
If one were to take Singapore’s NUS as an example, one guiding principle would be to recruit the best available administrators and professors, lecturers, tutors and research assistants internationally and pay them according to international standards, while assessing their performance on rigorous and transparent criteria.
Another guiding principle would be to [...]
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ONE reason for the scepticism surrounding the affirmative action policy is its very label. The policy’s perceived racial bias is exacerbated by the constant reference to bumiputra or Malay rights by politicians from all sides. The fact that it addresses the needs of other underprivileged communities and ethnic groups is lost in the [...]
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Taking the total number of votes cast and the total number of seats available, on average, the BN needed 16,000 votes to win a seat. The DAP needed 50,000; PAS had to get 150,000 and Keadilan needed a whopping 500,000 for their solitary seat.
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BN government’s ‘good’ record
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Khairy Jamaludin
A Malaysian blogger has been arrested under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) for comments posted on his blog that pointed to a corrupt internal security system in Malaysia.
SEAPA protests the detention of the 26-year-old blogger, Nathaniel Tan, and shares the concerns of the Kuala Lumpur-based Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) that the arrest may be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Often ridiculed by Muslim clerics at home but admired abroad, Malaysia’s controversial director Yasmin Ahmad says only God will stop her from making movies.
The religious authorities in mainly Muslim Malaysia has taken exception to the award-winning Yasmin’s “Muallaf” (The Convert), after her lead actress, a Muslim, shaved her head for the role and acted beside [...]
Oil industry players have given only cautious approval to Malaysia’s multi-billion-dollar northern pipeline project, citing slowing oil demand in the Asian region and cost concerns.
The owner of the project has said it will cost $7 billion dollars over seven years to build, with the aim of transporting Middle East oil to East Asia by [...]
Malaysia’s highest court on Wednesday threw out a bid by a woman seeking to have her conversion to Christianity from Islam officially recognised.
A three-judge panel of the Federal Court rejected an appeal by Lina Joy in a case that went to the heart of a debate here on whether civil courts should take precedence [...]
Lina Joy has been disowned by her family, shunned by friends and forced into hiding — all because she renounced Islam and embraced Christianity in Muslim-majority Malaysia.
Now, after a seven-year legal struggle, Malaysia’s highest court will decide on Wednesday whether her constitutional right to choose her religion overrides an Islamic law that prohibits Malay Muslims [...]
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