July 21, 2010 http://online.wsj.com (July 19, 2010) What Anwar’s Trial Means For Malaysia A guilty verdict would be a serious step backwards for this aspiring Muslim democracy. By John R. Malott* The trial of Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s opposition leader and his nation’s best-known and most respected international figure, is scheduled to resume this week in [...]
Archive for July 2010
What Anwar’s Trial Means For Malaysia
July 20, 2010MACC: Stop Persecuting the Innocent and We will Work with You
July 19, 2010July 19, 2010 MACC: Stop the Persecution of the Innocent! by Din Merican Last week was the anniversary of Teoh Beng Hock’s death. Teoh Beng Hock died while in the custody of the MACC. Teoh Beng Hock was found dead flung outside the office of the MACC at Plaza Masalam. He died in the process [...]
Foundation For The Future and Malaysian Opposition Leader
July 19, 2010July 19, 2010 Foundation For the Future and Malaysian Opposition Leader A 42-page report by a Washington DC-based whistle-blower organisation is proving a major embarrassment for Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim by alleging that the Foundation for the Future, which Anwar headed for a time in the middle of the last decade, was actually established [...]
The German Genuis
July 18, 2010July 18, 2010 NY Times Sunday Book Review THE GERMAN GENIUS Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century By Peter Watson 964 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $35. by Brian Ladd A version of this review appeared in print on July 18, 2010, on page BR20 of the Sunday Book Review. By 1900, [...]
The Bionic Prime Minister’s Department (PmD)
July 18, 2010July 18, 2010 The RM12 Billion Department by Liew Chin Tong The Prime Minister’s Department’s allocation for 2010 is a whopping RM12 billion, not RM4 billion as some people may have perceived it to be. That’s a lot of money for one single department. In a parliamentary reply by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department [...]
PERKASA gains popularity at the expense of UMNO Youth
July 17, 2010July 17, 2010 PERKASA fills UMNO Youth’s “Vacuum” By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has charged that PERKASA’s rising popularity among Malays was due to the failure of the UMNO Youth leadership to champion the cause of the race. Tengku Razaleigh also said that current UMNO Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin’s ostensibly staunch support for [...]
Fight Corruption with MACC, says Dato Abu Kassim
July 17, 2010July 17, 2010 Malaysians must come forward and fight corruption with MACC, says Dato Abu Kassim The public must come forward and fight corruption, together with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), said its Chief Commissioner, Abu Kassim Mohamed. All efforts in combating corruption would only be fruitful if there was continuous awareness and support from [...]
PAS will stick with Pakatan Rakyat…
July 17, 2010July 17, 2010 PAS will stick with Pakatan Rakyat for the moment, says Mustafa Ali by Joseph Sipalan (July 16, 2010) PAS today repeated its pledge of loyalty to the Pakatan Rakyat, saying they will stand by their promise to stay with the coalition till at least the 13th general election. Party secretary-general Mustafa Ali [...]
Your Weekend Entertainment
July 17, 2010July 17, 2010 Friends, Associates, and Lovers of Jazz and Oldies, For this weekend, Dr. Kamsiah and I have chosen to play some jazz numbers and two songs by Malaysia’s top entertainer, P. Ramlee. So we have for you, Miles Davies (with his rendition of Someday My Prince Will Come), followed by balladeer Johnny Hartman [...]
Malaysians angered by Subsidy Cuts
July 16, 2010July 16, 2010 Malaysians angered by subsidy cuts by The Malaysian Insider (www.themalaysianinsider.com) Malaysians today woke up to higher prices for fuel and sugar which the government called a “subsidy rationalisation” that will not burden the people but still reduce government expenditure. Of course, the government is right. Five sen extra for a litre of [...]
China’s Peaceful Development and Security Diplomacy
July 16, 2010July 16, 2010 Insight: China’s peaceful development and security diplomacy by Juwono Sudarsono* In December 2005, China’s White Paper introduced the policy of the “Peaceful Development Road” to replace the previously enunciated policy of the “Peaceful Rise” policy in 2002. The change in nomenclature was deliberate, as Beijing’s leadership wanted to assure China’s neighbors and [...]
Public Intellectuals or Policy Architects?
July 16, 2010July 16, 2010 http://www.thejakartapost.com Public intellectuals or policy architects? Pierre Marthinus*, Jakarta | Opinion Benedict Anderson, one of the world’s best-known US intellectuals, recently lamented the lack of Indonesian academics courting public opinion and their failure in seriously challenging anything through social-political criticism (Bangkok Post, June 28). This seems to be the case not only [...]
Ethnicity in Malaysian Politics
July 16, 2010July 16, 2010 Comment: John Teo thinks that ethnicity in Malaysian politics is here to stay. It does not have to be negative, he adds. Well, I am of the view that race-based politics is a dangerous and disruptive, and should be avoided at all cost, if we are to move forward towards becoming a [...]
Bakke Salleh at the helm of Sime Darby Group
July 15, 2010July 15, 2010 www.themalaysiainsider.com Bakke Salleh at the helm of troubled Sime Darby Group Troubled conglomerate Sime Darby Berhad today confirmed the appointment of Datuk Mohd Bakke Salleh as acting president and group chief executive, avoiding the tricky situation of having two bosses as Datuk Seri Ahmad Zubir Murshid remains in both posts despite being [...]
Economics Behaving Badly
July 15, 2010July 15, 2010 Op-Ed Contributors Economics Behaving Badly by George Loewenstein and Peter Ubel IT seems that every week a new book or major newspaper article appears showing that irrational decision-making helped cause the housing bubble or the rise in health care costs. Such insights draw on behavioral economics, an increasingly popular field that incorporates [...]
Malaysians and Titles
July 15, 2010July 15, 2010 Malaysians and Titles: Whatever It Takes by James Chin* Malaysians are obsessed with titles, just look at the number of awards given out every year. I was told about 200 “Datuk” and “Tan Sri” awards are given out every year by the federal and state governments. This is not anywhere near the [...]
The Sand Tussle: UMNO versus PKR in Selangor
July 15, 2010July 15, 2010 www.malaysiakini.com Semesta denies Wrongdoing in Sand Mining Operations @ Kampung Olak Lempir, Kuala Langat, Selangor Selangor government subsidiary Kumpulan Semesta Sdn Bhd (KSSB) today strongly denied and condemned allegations that its sand mining activities in Kampung Olak Lempit, Kuala Langat, which were highlighted in the media recently, are illegal. Describing the allegations [...]
