The almost USD 50 billion budget is the costliest ever in Malaysia's five decades of independence. It is 10.9% higher than the previous one and nearly three times that of the 1998 budget (not accounting for inflation). Publication: Opinion Asia, 10 Sep 2007. Author: Liew, Chin Tong.
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2020 is 13 years away. If Malaysia is serious about achieving Wawasan 2020, farreaching political and economic reforms are necessary. Publication: MIERScan, 16 July 2007.
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Shhh! Cannot say one, sensitive lah. Afterwards you kena ISA.
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Write comment (4 Comments) Understandably, all eyes are on the forthcoming budget to be unveiled on 1 September. The government has been pursuing a pragmatic fiscal policy in recent years, with deficit budgets to stimulate the economy, in the aftermath of the 1997/98 financial crisis. What makes this fiscal policy all the more palatable is that the deficits have not only been kept within manageable limits but also been downsized gradually with a view to eventually balancing the books. Publication: MIERScan, 21 August 2006.
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Prelude - please read it before reading the article
I write this article so as to apprise the people who, in the mind of the general public, have taken the law into their own hands through the harassment of law abiding citizens of this country with the threat of using the Sedition Act 1948 on them. They should not have done it without first taking expert legal advice on the technical and difficult law of sedition under the Act.
After you have read this article, I am sure you will agree with me that the law of sedition is not easy for a layman to understand. Even lawyers and judges have found great difficulty in understanding it - let alone an uninitiated policeman. If the police are not careful, one of these days they will find themselves at the receiving end of a suit for malicious prosecution, false arrest or whatever the victims of their harassment would throw at them.
I hope you will bear with me if this time I am not able to explain difficult law in simple language as much as I would like to. It is at a time like this that I really appreciate the great ability of the late Lord Denning who was so adept at explaining difficult law to us ordinary folk.
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