The Amirsham NEAC is tasked to propose “structural changes to the economy”

November 21, 2009 www.nst.com.my Forging Malaysia’s New Economic Model by Tan Sri Amirsham A. Aziz SINCE the announcement by the Prime Minister on the expected unveiling of the new economic model at year’s end, public expectations have been heightened on its anticipated shape and form. As the chairman of the National Economic Advisory Council, I [...]

The Economic Corridors should have gone together with Abdullah Badawi

Economic Corridors and Our Fatal Conceit by SakmongkolAK47 (November 19, 2009) The luster of the economic corridors is fading as the hard evidence about their success is very sparse. The Singaporeans are not coming in droves into Iskandar region. In the other corridors, the economy hasn’t taken off beyond the pyrotechnics and dry ice smokes.In [...]

1Malaysia Business A-Team

November 20, 2009 http://ckcounterpunch.wordpress.com 1Malaysia Corporate and Business Team: A Formidable Force behind Najib Tun Razak Everyone knows whenever there’s a change to the premiership not only political landscape changes but also the stock-market landscape. When Mahathir called it a day in 2003 almost immediately his cronies listed companies were affected. The same goes to [...]

PI Bala: Part 5

November 20, 2009 PI Bala Part 5: ” I was told Rosmah was happy with my retraction” In the fifth and final part of the mystery interview with private eye P Balasubramaniam published in Malaysia Today, he tells that prime minister’s wife Rosmah Mansor was “very happy” with him for retracting his first statutory declaration [...]

PI Bala: Part 4

PI Bala Part 4: From Bangkok to Kathmandu to New Delhi November 19, 2009 In the fourth part of the mystery interview with private investigator P Balasubramaniam published in Malaysia Today, he tells of the hardships he faced being forced to live away from home. Balasubramaniam, a central figure in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case, [...]

PI Bala: Part 3

PI Bala Part 3: Cops grill PI Bala in Bangkok, praise his courage Npvember 18, 2009 In the third part of the ‘mystery interview’ with private investigator P Balasubramaniam which appeared on Malaysia Today, he revealed how the Malaysian police questioned him in Bangkok. The focus was on the first statutory declaration. He said the [...]

PI Bala Part 2

Malaysiakini (November 17) PI Bala Part 2: Last Hours in Malaysia In the second installment of a ‘mystery interview’ with private investigator P Balasubramaniam which appeared on Malaysia Today, he purportedly tells of how he was made to sign a second statutory declaration and bundled out of the country. He reveals how after a press [...]

10 Years and More to come: Congrats, Malaysiakini.com

November 20, 2009 Today is Malaysiakini.com’s 10th Anniversary. What a decade it was for Prem Chandran, Steven Gan and their young, idealistic, resourceful and talented team of web-journalists. They went through great lengths to bring us timely and accurate reports on political, economic, social and cultural developments in our country. Despite  incessant harassment by the [...]

Jazz at its best: That of a Bygone Era

Friends, How quickly time flies these days. It is time again to post some entertaining jazz. For this purpose, my co-host drkam and I have decided to pick some classic numbers from the Haider-Merican jazz collection. It  features in our view some of the greatest jazz exponents– Lee Morgan, CannonBall Adderley, Ornette Coleman, and  Charlie Mingus. [...]

Malaysia’s too dependent on oil and gas revenues, says The World Bank

November 19, 2009 Malaysia must broaden its revenue base by Yip Ai Tsin The World Bank said that Malaysia is too dependent on revenues from oil and gas and should instead broaden its revenue base. “With proven oil reserves at 4 billion barrels as of early 2009 and production rate in 2008 at 727 thousand [...]

The Passing of a Friend to the Blogging Community

November 19, 2009 Dato Patrick Wong The untimely demise of this friend of bloggers and freedom lovers is a great loss to many of us who are dedicated to freedom, democracy and justice. My wife Dr. Kamsiah G. Haider and I extend to the family of Dato Patrick Wong our sincere condolences in their bereavement. [...]

1Malaysia makeovers won’t do

November 19, 2009 Comment: That 1Malaysia is a makeover of the old and tired UMNO-BN is now confirmed by this piece by the Malaysian Insider. Gimmicks won’t work and the best public relations team in the world now in the Prime Minister’ s Department cannot help Najib  if he is not prepared to make fundamental [...]

Anwar shifts gear

November 18, 2009 Anwar goes into high gear by Terence Netto From rarified leader to raring to go, from distracted observer to ready-for-the-trenches battler – that was PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim’s transformation in the space of a week. A kinetic week for him began with a stern reminder to a PKR convention in Penang that [...]

Worst Ranking for Malaysia on TI’s Corruption Perception Index

November 17, 2009 Malaysia is No.56 in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) Malaysia suffered a major blow in terms of combating corruption today when it fell to its worst ranking and score in 15 years in Transparency International’s corruption perception index for 2009. In the ranking which was revealed today Malaysia plunged nine places [...]

A Bit of History: Mahathir-Anwar Ibrahim Feud

posted by din merican–November 17, 2009 Malaysia: The Feud How Mahathir and Anwar became embroiled in a clash that threatens to send Malaysia into upheaval by Sheri Prasso and Mark Clifford in Kuala Lumpur, with Joyce Barnathan in Hong Kong. To Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has a passion for flying and sailing, Malaysia’s annual [...]

Mahathir Attacks Anwar Ibrahim on His Blog

November 17, 2009 Maggie Thatcher on Anwar Ibrahim as Malaysia’s Finance Minister: “…the Government’s policy has been to build a framework within which enterprise flourishes and foreign capital is attracted to invest in Malaysia. Particular praise is due to Dr Anwar Ibrahim, the Finance Minister, for the prudent monetary and fiscal policies which he has [...]

Education: Go Back To Basics Before We Talk About the New Economic Model

November 17, 2009 Go Back To Basics by Hafiz Noor Shams One simply cannot underestimate the power of education in shaping society. It has an awesome capability in influencing a person’s perspective towards the world, by impressing certain mind frames on those minds still naively free of scepticism. A liberal society will require an education [...]