November 17, 2010 A Message to Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi on Patriotism By Citizen Nades* @www.sun2surf.com On June 3, 1971, Captain Mohana Chandran was leading a unit of 10 soldiers of the 4th Battalion Royal Rangers on a reconnaissance mission in Ulu Kinta. After being in the jungle for 10 days, they came across about [...]
Archive for November 2010
Measure of Patriotism
November 17, 2010American Engagement with Southeast Asia
November 17, 2010November 17, 2010 Obama’s Ambassador to ASEAN and American Engagement with Southeast Asia by Dr. John Lee* THE appointment of David Carden as America’s permanent ambassador to ASEAN has generated rumblings of discontent among Asia hands in Washington’s policy community.A productive American relationship with ASEAN, particularly when it joins the East Asia Summit as a [...]
Anwar Ibrahim: A Superb Campaigner but…
November 16, 2010November 16, 2010 Anwar is a poor Party Manager but a Superb Campaigner by Terence Netto (received by e-mail) Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo once observed that politicians campaign in poetry but govern in prose. His dictum meant that winning support on the campaign trail requires gauzy rhetoric, the beguiling of crowds with tantalising [...]
Men like Zaid finish last
November 16, 2010November 16, 2010 Men like Zaid Ibrahim finish last by Rashid Yusof @www.nst.com.my DATUK Zaid Ibrahim indicated to the New Sunday Times he had earned disproportionate media coverage. He certainly has not been criss-crossing the nation whipping up sentiment and support. He was at home.The apparent political inertia has not stopped him from gaining a [...]
Sime Darby Group AGM: The Board Faced Irate Shareholders with Calm and Composure
November 16, 2010November 16, 2010 UPDATE Today’s AGM saw the re-appointments of Tun Musa Hitam and Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Wan Mohd Zahid Noordin as Directors of the Company. They were both unanimously re-appointed. Meanwhile, three directors of the company were reelected to the Board. They are Tan Sri Datuk Amar (Dr) Tommy Bugo @ Hamid Bugo, [...]
Netto on Zaid’s “I Quit” Decision
November 15, 2010November 15, 2010 www.malaysiakini.com Terence Netto’s Reaction to News of Zaid Ibrahim’s ” I Quit” Decision Apparently, Zaid Ibrahim is not convinced that difficult problems and decisions actually improve when they are allowed to simmer a little on a backburner. Today comes news he has quit PKR, barely a year and a half after joining [...]
Zaid Ibrahim says: “I Quit”
November 15, 2010November 15, 2010 Zaid Ibrahim: “I quit” PKR Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has announced he is quitting PKR today, a widely-anticipated move a week after dropping out of the party’s deputy presidential race. The maverick politician said he resigned in an interview with The Star daily that appeared in today’s edition with the banner headlines “Zaid: [...]
A Little Bit of Malaysian History
November 15, 2010November 15, 2010 Our Great Escape from Military Dictatorship by Terence Netto @www.malaysiakini.com (November 14) The release yesterday of Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burmese junta and the jubilation her freedom must have brought to millions of her supporters in that unfortunate country prompts thoughts on the what-might-have-been in our country in May 1969. [...]
Whither post-’elections’ Burma?
November 15, 2010November 15, 2010 Whither post-’elections’ Burma? by James Wong Wing On@www.malaysiakini.com (November 14, 2010) The ‘general elections’ in Burma is now over and the ‘results’ also known, but are the many problems in the most troublesome member of ASEAN over? What is the future of that unfortunate country? Malaysiakini interviewed – via email – Maung [...]
The Case of Rosli Dahlan, lest it be forgotten
November 14, 2010November 14, 2010 The Case of Rosli Dahlan: MACC will cover up the Powerful but will make sacrificial lambs of the Innocent by Din Merican In my posting of September 16, 2010 entitled “The MAS Story: Of Arrogance and Folly”, I wrote about the arrogance of Tajudin Ramli and how he is still free and [...]
Zaid Ibrahim: “My record is that of a very tenacious political fighter”.
November 14, 2010November 14, 2010 www.nst.com.my Zaid Ibrahim defies gag order and speaks to the New Straits Times Opening remarks by Zaid Ibrahim: The reason why I wanted this interview was not to talk so much about problems in Parti Keadilan Rakyat but I want to thank well-meaning friends and people who want to see a strong [...]
Sime Group AGM on November 16, 2010: Answers Required
November 14, 2010November 24, 2010 Reminder to Sime Darby Shareholders: The AGM is on November 16, 2010 (10.30 am) at Sime Darby Convention Centre By Din Merican* During my days at the parent company of the Sime Darby Group, Sime Darby Berhad, the Annual General Meeting of its shareholders was usually a very timid affair. Shareholders raised [...]
For this Weekend at Least: Dream On, Be not Perturbed
November 14, 2010November 14, 2010 www.nst.com.my Wan A. Hulaimi (Awang Goneng): Dream On, I say, be not perturbed THIS column will have no effect on your mind at all, and it comes with a near cast-iron guarantee from two persons, Professors Daniel Gilbert and Matthew Killingsworth, both Harvard researchers.In a study designed to find out if you’re [...]
Johor PKR marred by Azmin-Zaid Rivalry
November 13, 2010November 13, 2010 www.malaysiakini.com Zaid Ibrahim has crossed the Rubicon (Kelantan River) Zaid Ibrahim must go. He has hurt a young and fragile party. He is shown to be power crazy and very irresponsible with his personal attacks against PKR leaders. There is no turning back now even if he admits his mistake and apologises. [...]
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi released from House Arrest
November 13, 2010November 13, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com Breaking News: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is no longer under House Arrest YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was freed from seven and a half years of house arrest Saturday and was greeted at the gate of her compound by thousands of jubilant supporters. She [...]
Japan’s Options
November 13, 2010November 13, 2010 Japan’s Options by Professor Joseph S. Nye TOKYO – The current tensions between China and Japan have revived talk about how far Japan has fallen since its glory years of the 1980’s. To the extent that this sense of decline is grounded in reality, can Japan recover? Japan’s economy has suffered two [...]
Johan Jaaffar on Obama’s Speech
November 13, 2010November 13, 2010 Muslims must wait for another Obama Speech by Johan Jaaffar @www.nst.com.my THE speech President Barack Obama delivered at University of Indonesia in Jakarta on Wednesday was a much awaited one. The most populous Muslim nation is a perfect platform for him to address some of the issues bedevilling the relationship between Islam [...]
