October 16, 2010 www.malaysiakini.com (October 15, 2010) The following are the salient points in Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 2011 Budget speech. The 2011 Budget is Najib’s second since taking over as Prime Minister in 2009. Total Budget, 2011 – RM212 billion, 2.8% higher than the 2010 Budget Operating Expenditure – RM162.8 billion Development expenditure – [...]
Archive for October 2010
Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 2011 National Budget
October 16, 2010Weekend Entertainment: Lobo Live in Malaysia
October 16, 2010October 16, 2010 Lobo at the Arena of Stars, Genting Highlands, October 15, 2010 Dr Kamsiah and I have just been back in Kuala Lumpur after a brief visit to Genting Highlands, Pahang. We were guests of Ambassador Dato Anthony Yeo, Executive Director for Human Resources, Gentings Berhad to dinner followed by a Live Performance [...]
Teo’s Spin on Malaysian ‘Democracy’
October 15, 2010October 15, 2010 Teo’s Spin on Malaysian ‘Democracy’: Let us debate him By John Teo at www.nst.com.my DOES communalism inform our democratic practice or is it more the other way round; that our democracy churns out the worst in us all and makes us even more communal-minded than we ordinarily would be?The question bounced in [...]
Police Report, everyone!
October 14, 2010October 14, 2010 The Latest Craze in BolehLand: Making Police Reports by AB Sulaiman @www.malaysiakini.com COMMENT: Not too long ago Helen Ang, a regular contributor to Malaysiakini and actively involved with CPI (Centre for Policy Initiatives), was called in by the police. Apparently some concerned citizens had launched a police report stating that she had [...]
Can we ignore Half the Malaysian Sky? Answer is NO
October 14, 2010October 14, 2010 Can we ignore HALF the MALAYSIAN SKY? by Natalie @www.sun2surf.com EVERY century has been marred by ghastly injustices that perhaps today make little sense why they were even allowed to occur. Slavery in America, ethnic cleansing in Nazi camps, Pol Pot’s regime, genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda – this list sadly has [...]
No Merit in Talking without Commitment
October 14, 2010October 14, 2010 No Merit in TALKING without COMMITMENT October 12, 2010 (www.sun2surf.com) IT was a day-long seminar in London aimed at bringing home talented Malaysians working in the United Kingdom or those who had made it their country of domicile. The list of speakers for last Wednesday’s event was impressive and it is a [...]
FreeMalaysiaToday: We are Nobody’s Poodle
October 14, 2010October 14, 2010 Editorial (October 12, 2010) We are Nobody’s Poodle When FreeMalaysiaToday hit the online stand early this year, its mission was clear: “to give readers news that is different from the rest of the pack… in pursuit of truth, we will spare no effort to get our our acts correct…” Over the last [...]
Review of Condi Rice’s Memoirs
October 14, 2010October 14, 2010 Books of The Times (www.nytimes.com) Not a Hint of the Storms in the Offing By Dwight Garner Condoleezza Rice’s memoir, “Extraordinary, Ordinary People,” ends where most readers would probably rather it began: with the 2000 election, the recount in Florida and the Supreme Court ruling that put George W. Bush in the [...]
The GPS of GE-13
October 13, 2010October 13, 2010 The GPS of GE-13 by Dr Azly Rahman @www.malaysiakini.com Come Malaysia’s general election No 13, how lucky will we be to have the entire nation bold enough to experiment with radical changes, a mega-trend, a paradigm shift, and the will to even replace the blue ocean in which sharks and piranhas battle [...]
The Passing of a Super-Diplomat
October 13, 2010October 13, 2010 I am saddened to learn this morning after reading NST Online of the passing of Tan Sri Zainal Abidin Sulong. This year we lost two Wisma Putra giants, Tun Ghazalie Shafie and now Tan Sri Zainal. It was my privilege to have had the opportunity to work with both King Ghaz and [...]
Azmin Ali on Khalid Ibrahim’s Move
October 13, 2010October 13, 2010 Azmin Ali: “I am shocked by Khalid’s announcement” by Aidila Razak@www.malaysiakini.com October 12, 2010 PKR deputy president hopeful Azmin Ali was very much taken aback when Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim revealed his interest in the same position on Sunday. “I am shocked by Khalid’s announcement. Based on feedback from friends and [...]
PKR: Reform Torchbearer still?
October 12, 2010October 12, 2010 PKR: A Torchbearer of Reform Still? By Josh Hong@www.malaysiakini.com If there is anything that one can say about Parti KeADILan Rakyat (PKR) these days, it is that the party now looks increasingly like an epitome of Barisan Nasional. No doubt, the party is of no fixed abode when it comes to ideology, [...]
Musa Hassan and Gani Patail and our Criminal Justice System
October 12, 2010October 12, 2010 http://uppercaise.wordpress.com Former CID chief Mat Zain says Musa Hassan and Gani Patail destroyed criminal justice system by uppercaise Musa Hassan and Gani Patail were accused today as being the cause of the destruction of the criminal justice system by having allowed falsified evidence against Anwar Ibrahim in 1998 and later [...]
Moderate Malaysians: The Third Force
October 12, 2010October 12, 2010 Mobilising Moderate Malaysians as the Third Force by Dr KJ John*@ www.malaysiakini.com PM Najib Abdul Razak argued at the UN that the mainstream moderate majority must be mobilised to reflect and protect universal values of common day civility. He repeated the same call at the Asem Meetings in Brussels. Coincidently, Raja Petra [...]
Rosmah wants a New Education System
October 12, 2010October 11, 2010 Rosmah wants a New Education System By Stephanie Sta Maria@www.freemalaysiatoday.com The prime minister’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, today proposed an education system that can produce critical and creative thinkers. In her keynote address at the world’s inaugural First Ladies Summit here, Rosmah told the First Ladies of 15 nations that such [...]
In Defense of Naive Reading
October 12, 2010October 12, 2010 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/10 In Defense of Naïve Reading by Robert Pippin (October 10, 2010) Remember the culture wars (or the ’80s, for that matter)? “The Closing of the American Mind,” “Cultural Literacy,” “Prof Scam” ,“Tenured Radicals”? Whatever happened to all that? It occasionally resurfaces, of course. There was the Alan Sokal/Social Text affair in [...]
RPK on Turning 60: What’s Next
October 11, 2010October 11, 2010 source: The Corridors of Power at www.malaysia-today.net On Turning 60: Random Thoughts of My Friend, Raja Petra Kamaruddin in the United Kingdom by Raja Petra Kamaruddin “Malaysia needs change. Initially we thought that Pakatan Rakyat would be that agent for change. But after more than two years we are not seeing Pakatan [...]
