October 31, 2011 http://www.thesundaily.my/news/192729 Competition law and the airline industry Posted on 31 October 2011 – 11:03am Last updated on 31 October 2011 – 11:09am by Christopher Lee, Kuok Yew Chen and Edwin Lee Legally Speaking MALAYSIAN Airline System Bhd (MAS), AirAsia Bhd and AirAsia X Sdn Bhd have recently entered into a Comprehensive Collaboration [...]
Archive for October 2011
Competition law and the airline industry
October 31, 2011Rahim Noor: PERKASA’s New Warrior
October 31, 2011October 31, 2011 Rahim Noor: PERKASA’s New Warrior by Terence Netto @www.malaysiakini.com COMMENT: Now that former inspector-general of police Abdul Rahim Noor has made his skepticism about human rights obvious in his keynote address to the PERKASA general meeting last week, we can retrospectively understand aspects of his conduct when he was the country’s top [...]
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs: “Follow your Heart and your Intuition”
October 31, 2011October 31, 2011 A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs By Mona Simpson (10-30-11)* I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would [...]
KTMB (Kereta Api Tanah Melayu) hurt by Move to Woodlands
October 31, 2011October 31, 2011 www.nst.com.my KTMB hurt by Move to Woodlands by Sim Bak Heng (10-30-11) The shifting of KTM Berhad’s railway operations to Woodlands in July following the closure of the Tanjung Pagar railway station has taken its toll on the revenue of the rail company. Checks showed the company has incurred an average monthly [...]
Deng Xiaoping: The Man Who Took Modernity To China
October 30, 2011October 3o, 2011 www.nytimes.com Deng Xiaoping: The Man Who Took Modernity To China by David Barboza (10-21-11) In 1979, just when Americans were beginning to reflect on the ascent of Japan, the Harvard sociologist Ezra F. Vogel (right) wrote his best-selling book, “Japan as Number One: Lessons for America.” Now 81 and retired from Harvard [...]
Look East Again? Yes, Follow the Chinese Way of Dealing with Corruption
October 30, 2011October 30, 2011 Look East, says Mahathir Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia and other Islamic countries should look to other Eastern countries and not the West as a model for their development. He said he believed he made the right decision in introducing the “Look East” Policy of emulating work ethics and [...]
Dear Ben: It’s Time for Your Volcker Moment
October 30, 2011October 30, 2011 Economic View Dear Ben: It’s Time for Your Volcker Moment By Christina D. Romer Published: October 29, 2011 In October 1979, inflation was running at more than 10 percent a year, and the Federal Reserve’s gradual interest rate increases weren’t solving the problem. So Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman, dramatically changed how [...]
Resurgence of Indian Support for Najib and Barisan Nasional (?)
October 29, 2011October 29, 2011 www.freemalaysiatoday.com Resurgence of Indian Support for Najib and Barisan Nasional(?) by RK Anand | 10-28-11 The mammoth turnout for the Deepavali open house in Batu Caves has been trumpeted as another sign of the Indian community’s support returning for the ruling coalition under the stewardship of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. In the [...]
Your Weekend Entertainment
October 28, 2011October 28,2011 Your Weekend Entertainment Dr. Kamsiah and I thought the posting on the rantings of Ustaz Dr. Ridhuan Tee and Art Harun’s rejoinder was a bit rough since when comes to matters of religion here in Malaysia, most of us are unable to argue without getting hot under the collar. It is time we [...]
Art to Tee: Compulsion in Islam?
October 28, 2011October 28, 2011 http://art-harun.blogspot.com/ Compulsion in Islam? by Art Harun With all due respect to Associate Professor Dr Ridhuan Tee Abdullah – a well known academic, ulamak and preacher in Malaysia – I must admit of being astounded by his remark at a forum entitled ‘Hudud: Its Dilemma and Implementation’ organised by Malay-language daily Sinar [...]
Malaysia-Australia Partnership Against People Traffickers
October 28, 2011October 28, 2011 OPINION Prime Minister Najib Explains Malaysia-Australia Partnership Against People Traffickers By Najib Razak (10-27-11) Where you or I see a man, a woman or an innocent child, people traffickers see only one thing – money. They target the vulnerable and the desperate and exploit them without mercy, taking advantage of people financially, [...]
Reuters: Positive Market Reaction to European Debt Plan
October 28, 2011October 28, 2011 Reuters: Positive Market Reaction to European Debt Plan A long-awaited plan to staunch the European debt crisis sparked euphoria across financial markets yesterday, driving up the value of the euro and the price of world stocks, crude oil and other commodities. Major US stock indices, which had been close to bear territory [...]
Singapore enters a new era of politics
October 27, 2011October 27, 2011 www.thestar.com.my Singapore enters a new era of politics INSIGHT: DOWN SOUTH By Seah Chiang Nee(10-22-11) The departure from the Cabinet of the man who has had a hand in almost everything in Singapore for 46 years seems to have jolted people and politics into action.SINGAPORE’S Parliament is meeting for the first time [...]
Mat Zain: Najib knew of A-G’s alleged wrongdoings
October 27, 2011October 27, 2011 Mat Zain claims Najib knew of A-G’s alleged wrongdoings By Shannon Teoh Datuk Seri Najib Razak said that then IGP Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail should not have been involved in falsifying evidence in Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s 1998 “black eye” probe, a former senior policeman said today of his private meeting [...]
Sex, Lies and Malaysian Politics
October 27, 2011October 27, 2011 Sex, Lies and Malaysian Politics by John Berthelsen (10-25-11) Prurient and puritanical, Malaysia gags, goes gaga for naughty tales Malaysia fancies itself a conservative society, with plenty of restrictions on racy movies and activities that might lead its majority Muslim population astray. But get inside a courtroom and anything goes, with details [...]
The Bankers’ Capital War
October 27, 2011October 27, 2011 The Bankers’ Capital War by Howard Davies (10-19-11) Almost everyone nowadays agrees that banks need more capital. Christine Lagarde chose to make it her first campaign as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. And conventional analyses of the financial crisis focus on the weak capital base of many banks, which left [...]
Samy’s Con-Job on Diwali Day
October 26, 2011October 26, 2011 www.malaysia-chronicle.com MIC’s Samy Velu, Gone but Back with RM10 billion Con-Job on Malaysians and RM 9 billion Loan to Bangladesh by Ismail Dahlan, Malaysia Chronicle Having achieved absolutely nothing in his capacity as ‘Envoy to South Asia’, Samy Velu now decides to pull off what is essentially a confidence trick on Malaysians. [...]
