July 14, 2010 Old Sungei Besi Airport Land and its surroundings–Hyde Park of Kuala Lumpur by Aspan Alias One of the profound and insightful duties of leaders is to ensure the nation’s wealth and possessions are securely protected and managed for the good sake of the people and their future generation. For past 3 decades [...]
Archive for July 2010
Old Sungei Besi Airport Land–Hyde Park of Kuala Lumpur
July 14, 2010The FaceBook Effect: A Review
July 14, 2010July 14, 2010 The FACEBOOK: Humanity’s Database Review by David Pogue of The Facebook Effect :The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World ( by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster (July 4, 2010) According to “The Facebook Effect,” Facebook is the second-most-visited Web site on earth (after Google). The average member spends [...]
Stay the Course,Senator-Minister Jala
July 14, 2010July 14, 2010 Stay the Course, Senator-Minister Idris Jala There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old [...]
Friends, make the world a better place
July 14, 2010July 14, 2010 Remember Michael Jackson and Make the World a Better Place
Hayek: The Back Story
July 13, 2010July 13, 2010 Hayek: The Back Story By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Published: July 1, 2010 Last month, a funny thing happened on the way to the best-seller list. A 66-year-old treatise by a long-dead Austrian-born economist began flying off the shelves, following an hourlong endorsement from a right-wing television host better known for pumping political thrillers [...]
Media Freedom: The Example of Indonesia and Kompas
July 13, 2010July 13, 2010 Market forces safeguard against abuses Ceritalah By Karim Raslan THE Government’s refusal to renew the printing permits of two newspapers aligned to Pakatan Rakyat has raised the issue of press freedom once again. I have long disagreed with the current licensing regime. Market forces, combined with certain guidelines on the coverage of [...]
Progress and Principles
July 13, 2010July 13, 2010 Progress must not cost us our principles by Ahmad Husni* “A person’s conscience is the basis of one’s moral values. In turn, one’s conscience is formed by one’s religious and community values. There is no major religion in the world that allows the misappropriation of funds, corruption and fraud for self-enrichment. Neither [...]
Humor: Why Ban It?
July 13, 2010July 13, 2010 Jokers Without Any Sense of Humor Dr.M. Bakri Musa@Morgan-Hill, California Banning books in Malaysia is now such a routine matter that it is no longer newsworthy. That is the scary part. So when the Associated Press carried the news of the Malaysian government banning Zunar’s books of political cartoons, that perked me [...]
UMNO on war footing
July 12, 2010July 12, 2010 www.malaysiakini.com UMNO on war footing COMMENT by Terence Netto It’s the winter of UMNO’s discontent with Pakatan Rakyat, with PKR in the eye of the maelstrom. The heightened attacks on PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim, the suspension of Suara Keadilan, the warnings to Harakah, the investigations of Pakatan legislators for alleged corruption, the [...]
Rais Yatim: Minister of Wrong Mode
July 12, 2010July 12, 2010 Rais Yatim: Stop Spreading False Information and apologise to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, the Malaysian People, and the United States by John R. Malott* (@ www.malaysiatoday.net) Minister of Information, Communications, and Culture Rais Yatim owes Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian people, and the US government an apology. Rais recently was named as [...]
I was tortured, says RMAF Sarge, N Tharmendran
July 12, 2010July 12, 2010 ‘Military intelligence officers tortured me’ by Joseph Sipalan (www.malaysiakini.com) EXCLUSIVE A solitary bulb hangs from the ceiling, barely lighting the blackened walls of the cell that trap him like a rat. In the tiny, windowless room, he battles madness from within and relentless chill from without. He has lost all sense of [...]
Malaysia’s Rapid Growth under Mahathirism due to External Factors, not NEP
July 11, 2010July 11, 2010 Malaysia’s Rapid GDP Growth: External Factors not NEP, says Professor Datuk Dr Mohamed Ariff By Lee Wei Lian (www.themalaysiainsider.com) The country’s premier economic think tank’s ex-chief questioned Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s assertion that the country grew rapidly due to the New Economic Policy (NEP), and instead said Malaysia should thank external factors. [...]
On Mark Twain: NYTimes Book Review
July 11, 2010July 11, 2010 Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant by Larry Rohter (published July 9, 2010) Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that’s the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about [...]
Well Done, South Africa and Thank You for World Cup 2010
July 10, 2010July 10, 2010 Ode to Joy Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning Daughter of Elysium, Fire drunken we are ent’ring Heavenly, thy holy home! Thy enchantments bind together, What did custom stern divide, Every man becomes a brother, Where thy gentle wings abide. Who the noble prize achieveth, Good friend of a friend to be; Who [...]
Tertiary Education: An Expensive Race
July 10, 2010July 10, 2010 Tertiary Education: An Expensive Race By Ken Vin Lek SPECIAL FOCUS Higher education is a passport to a better life, but unfortunately many Malaysian students do not enjoy easy access to it. More often than not, it is a goal they seek but cannot attain. It has seemingly become a privilege and [...]
The Calming,Tolerant Voice of Muhammadiyah
July 10, 2010July 10, 2010 Muhammadiyah: Voice of Calm and Tolerance by Johan Jaafar LAST week, Persyarikatan Muhammadiyah celebrated its 100th year of existence, using the Hijrah calendar. The second biggest Muslim organisation in the largest Muslim nation was established in 1912 in Jogjakarta. It claims to have 29 million members, second only to Nahdatul Ulama. But [...]
Political Power isn’t everything
July 10, 2010July 9, 2010 Political Power isn’t everything by Mariam Mokhtar* If Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin’s sole motivation for seeking UMNO’s re-election in Lembah Pantai was to remain in power, then he has lost his focus. According to him, BN can only serve the people if it remains in power. He believes that without [...]
