June 16, 2011 Sudan’s Omar Hassan Al-Bashir skips Langkawi International Dialogue by The Malaysian Insider @www.themalaysianinsider.com Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir’s no show at the Langkawi International Dialogue (LID) is not linked to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Sudan Ambassador to Malaysia Nadir Yousif Eltayeb Nadir explained that Bashir [...]
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Sudan’s Al-Bashir skips Langkawi International Dialogue
June 16, 2011Tourism Minister to face the Cabinet
June 16, 2011Phnom Penh, Cambodia June 16, 2011 Tourism Minister must account for this Facebook Affair By Asrul Hadi Abdulah Sani@www.themalaysiakini.com Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today that Cabinet would seek an explanation from Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen over the tourism ministry’s RM1.8 million expenditure to develop six Facebook pages. Muhyiddin said [...]
Economic Development reverses the Brain Drain
June 16, 2011Phnom Penh, Cambodia June 16, 2011 Economic Development reverses the Brain Drain by Dr. M. Bakri Musa A recent World Bank Report concludes that Malaysia risks jeopardizing its economic development if it does not ameliorate its “brain drain” problem. The Bank singles out the country’s affirmative action program as a major contributor to the problem. [...]
Failure of our Institutions
June 15, 2011Phnom Penh, Cambodia www. art-harun.blogspot.com Art Harun on the Failure of Our Institutions When Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) opened a Twitter account some months ago, I was actually pleasantly surprised that it chose to follow my Twitter account. I promptly decided to return the compliment by following MACC on Twitter. From then on, I could [...]
BERSIH 2.0: Police won’t take sides, says Home Affairs Minister
June 15, 2011June 15, 2011 Phnom Penh, Cambodia BERSIH 2.0: Home Minister says Police won’t take sides by Joseph Sipalan@www.malaysiakini.com The Police will take action against anyone found to flaunt the law and compromise national security during the planned BERSIH2.0 rally on July 9, said Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. Law and security will take priority, he said, [...]
Bersih 2.0 for Electoral and Institutional Reform
June 14, 2011June 14, 2011 http://www.malaysiandigest.com PERKASA against BERSIH 2.0′s Electoral and Institutional reform By Kee Thuan Chye MANY people have come to regard Ibrahim Ali as a clown, including Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Aziz. One hopes Ibrahim was just talking like a clown when he recently announced that his organization, Perkasa, would oppose [...]
Some Dictators are coming to town
June 14, 2011June 14, 2011 Malaysia plays host to Sudan’s Al-Bashir and Zimbabwean Mugabe in Langkawi Rights group Amnesty International urged Malaysia today to withdraw its invitation to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and arrest him if he travels to the Southeast Asian country. Bashir and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe are among several African leaders expected to take [...]
Looking Back at the 57th PAS Muktamar
June 13, 2011June 13, 2011 Looking Back at the 57th PAS Muktamar By Dr. Bridget Welsh* ANALYSIS: The victory of the progressives in Malaysia’s Islamic party has indeed served to inject greater dynamism into Pakatan Rakyat and strengthen PAS’ engagement in national politics. The party nevertheless faces deep-seated suspicion by many non-Muslims and more secular Malays who [...]
The State of American Journalism: A Point of View
June 13, 2011June 13, 2011 The State of American Journalism: A Point of View by Chris Hedges* My good friend, the author and journalist Stephen Kinzer, once said to me, half in jest: “You’re not a journalist. You’re a minister pretending to be a journalist”. He was not far off the mark. I have always been concerned [...]
Culture, Power and Sex Collide
June 12, 2011June 12, 2011 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com Culture, Power and Sex Collide by Linda Martin Alcoff* The recent events swirling about the ex-next-president of France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, have revived old tropes about how culture affects sex, including sexual violence. Before this scandal, many continued to believe that Americans are still infected by their Puritan past in matters sexuel, [...]
Singapore’s Economy at Crossroads
June 12, 2011June 12, 2011 Singapore’s Economy at Crossroads by Manu Bhaskaran* Since 2004, Singapore’s frantic growth has transformed the economy. New industries such as bio-medicals and high value chemicals in manufacturing, and wealth management and integrated resorts in services have changed the drivers of the economy. The inflow of several hundred thousand foreign workers and professionals [...]
Thoughts on Voodoo
June 11, 2011June 11, 2011 Thoughts on Voodoo by Paul Krugman With Tim Pawlenty — who was supposed to be a sensible Republican — going all-in for high voodoo, I thought it’s worth pointing out that at the moment there’s a pretty good case that there is a kind of Laffer curve in which more is less [...]
MAS: On a Wing and Prayer
June 11, 2011June 11, 2011 http://biz.thestar.com.my MAS: On a Wing and Prayer By B.K. SIDHU bksidhu@thestar.com.my The woes of national carrier Malaysia Airlines‘ are aplenty. They range from an aging core fleet, escalating cost structure, high leasing cost and legacy issues to a network that’s not far reaching enough. And these keep coming back to haunt the [...]
UMNO’s Political Culture hinders any Unity deal with PAS
June 11, 2011June 11, 2011 www.sakmongkol.blogspot.com UMNO’s Political Culture hinders to any Unity deal with PAS By SakmongkolAK47 We like it when UMNO appoints a young and energetic information chief. At the very least, he does not carry an historical baggage. The original sin doesn’t get passed on to him. That was essentially his premise in calling [...]
Congrats, Ambassador Tan Sri PG Lim
June 10, 2011June 10, 2011 Congrats, Tan Sri PG Lim THE Panglima Setia Mahkota (PSM) award (which confers the title Tan Sri) bestowed on Datuk Lim Phaik Gan (better known as P.G. Lim), in conjunction with the birthday of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, is indeed a well-deserved honour. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak [...]
UNIK’s Technical Advisor resigns
June 10, 2011June 10, 2011 UNIK’s Technical Advisor resigns By Lee Wei Lian@www.themalaysianinsider.com UNIK, the Prime Minister’s initiative tasked with restructuring the country’s public innovation ecosystem has hit a setback with the resignation of its technical advisor Dr. N Danaraj who was in charge of putting together the National Innovation Policy (NIP). His resignation earlier this week [...]
Mat Sabu speaks to Malaysiakini
June 10, 2011June 10, 2011 Mat Sabu speaks to Malaysiakini by Aidila Razak Newly-elected PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu’s strong ties with the Islamic party’s Pakatan Rakyat partner DAP has gained him brickbats from PAS detractors. But in an exclusive interview with Malaysiakini yesterday, the seasoned politician, popularly known as Mat Sabu, said he is nonplussed. To [...]
