October 22, 2010 Amanat Presiden (Presidential Address) at 61st UMNO General Assembly (October 21, 2010) by Prime Minister and UMNO President Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Empowering Malaysians to achieve prosperity I BEGIN my speech by inviting you to ponder two edicts of Allah. In Surah al-Baqarah, verse 143, reads: “And so we have made [...]
Archive for October 2010
Amanat Presiden UMNO at 61st General Assembly
October 22, 2010Liew Chin Tong on the Malaysian 2011 Budget
October 22, 2010October 21, 2010 National Budget 2011: The Malaysian Treasury does a shoddy job by Liew Chin Tong Finance Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak and the Treasury should be censured for misleading the Parliament with its shoddy preparation of a budget document that shows a RM 30 billion hole that wasn’t, as well as an [...]
Zaid Ibrahim fumbles on PKR, says Netto
October 21, 2010October 21, 2010 Zaid Ibrahim fumbles on PKR, says Terence Netto COMMENT: This column has espoused the view that the contest for the deputy presidency of PKR is a bridge that’s being crossed too early and that the current choice is a false one. All that is academic now that the race is off to [...]
Malaysia’s Development Strategy Revisited
October 20, 2010October 20, 2010 Malaysia’s Development Strategy Revisited by Dr. Mohamed Ariff* Malaysia has turned 180 degrees since Independence in 1957, transforming itself into a thriving modern economy and leapfrogging from a low-income to a middle-income trajectory. The country owes its prosperity to its economic openness, with trade as the lifeblood and foreign direct investment (FDI) [...]
New Culture and Political Model for UMNO: Open and Inclusive
October 20, 2010October 20, 2010 New Culture and Political Model for UMNO UMNO President Najib Abdul Razak wants the UMNO General Assembly 2010 to be the beginning of the new culture and political model in UMNO so that the party will be more open and inclusive. He said the general assembly this time, one year after the [...]
Great Speech,Tan Sri DPM: Deeds Matter,Not Words
October 20, 2010October 20, 2010 www.themalaysianinsider.com Deeds, Not Words–The Malaysian Insider Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has called for an end to race debates. He is right and we agree with the Deputy Prime Minister. “Debates about racial issues without limits can incite provocation that will ignite racial sentiments. Surely we do not want a spark of anger [...]
From London: Dear Khairy
October 20, 2010October 20, 2010 http://www.malaysia-today.net–No Holds Barred From RPK to Khairy Jamaluddin, UMNO Youth Leader London, October 18, 2010 Dear Khairy, How are you? It’s been a long time since we last met and shared a cigar. I don’t know whether you ever make it to this part of the world but in the event you [...]
A Brain from Malaysia Lost
October 20, 2010October 20, 2010 http://hawkeyejack.blogspot.com A Brain from Malaysia Lost by Hawkeye (October 19, 2010) Malaysia is facing a severe human capital flight with large-scale emigration of intellectuals seeking greener pastures in more advanced society like in Singapore which is estimated to have 45 % of the best brains from Malaysia and 25 % to other Asian countries with the [...]
MIER: Budget 2011 with expectations but…
October 19, 2010October 19, 2010 MIER (Malaysian Institute of Economic Research): Budget 2011 was within expectations but there were also disappointments. A top economic think-tank said today it expected the economy to expand by 6.5 percent this year, below the government’s forecast of 7 percent, as it sees slower exports and weaker business sentiment. The Malaysian Institute of [...]
Dictatorship for Malaysia means Tearing our Constitution
October 19, 2010October 19, 2010 “That Dr Mahathir Mohamad said dictatorships are good must be the biggest joke in this century. Mahathir cited China as an example of a successful dictatorship. This senile man must be silenced before he does more harm to our country, especially Generation Y. Leave Najib and his Team to carry on with [...]
Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore
October 19, 2010October 19, 2010 Economic View Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore by Robert H Frank (October 16, 2010) PEOPLE often remember the past with exaggerated fondness. Sometimes, however, important aspects of life really were better in the old days. During the three decades after World War II, for example, incomes in the United States rose [...]
Book Review: Claude Lévi-Strauss
October 19, 2010October 19, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/ Books of The Times A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures by Janet Maslin CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS The Poet in His Laboratory By Patrick Wilcken Illustrated. 404 pages. The Penguin Press. $29.95. Patrick Wilcken first interviewed the celebrated French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in 2005. For Mr. Wilcken an audience with the [...]
No 1Malaysia without Political Will
October 19, 2010October 19, 2010 No Political Will, No 1Malaysia by Mariam Mokhtar Mahathir Mohamad’s premiership was a mixture of adulation and fear. He was considered a Third World hero, a Malay champion and a divisive character. His admirers range from kampung folk to western educated non-Malay professionals. Although he resigned in 2003, he refuses to retire [...]
Anwar Ibrahim on National Budget 2011
October 18, 2010October 18, 2010 Return of Mahathirism in Najibnomics: UMNO-BN’s Obsession with Grandeur Projects by Clara Chooi @www. themalaysianinsider.com Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim attacked the Najib administration for going down the mega projects track to boost the economy, saying BN’s obsession with “grandeur” marks its imminent fall. “The government’s excitement to display grandeur, that will be [...]
National Budget 2011: A View from a Sabahan-Malaysian
October 18, 2010October 18, 2010 National Budget 2011: A View from a Sabahan-Malaysian by Datuk Jema Khan The main beneficiaries of the 2011 Budget are the civil servants, imams and village heads. These are what UMNO would consider their vote bank. It would be naive to think that Datuk Seri Najib Razak would not pander to this [...]
APCOs PR exercises: Surely, we can do better with Taxpayers’ Money
October 17, 2010October 16, 2010 APCO PR Exercises: Surely, we can do better with Taxpayers’ Money By Agus Santoro via e-mail Malaysia is one of the most blog-happy countries in the word. Virtually every politician has his own blog now. Editors of mainstream newspapers dis-allowed from writing openly during their day jobs operate blogs secretly from their [...]
The MAS Story: Of Arrogance and Folly
October 16, 2010October 16, 2010 The MAS Story: Of Arrogance and Folly by Din Merican In the early 1990s, Tajuddin Ramli was the poster boy of then Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s plan for Bumiputera wealth creation. He was the iconic bumiputera businessman and a key “payung” (mentor) for other bumiputera entrepreneurs. For that he was practically [...]
