Response by Refsa on subsidy contentions

letterWe write to rebut Dr Lim Teck Ghee?s assertion that “There is little empirical research to back up what has become an increasingly popular line of argument” that blanket subsidies such as for cheap petrol and sugar “benefit upper-class Malaysians who consume much more than their poorer cousins.

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Hindraf awaiting Najib’s, Anwar’s response

contributor-hindrafUpon his return from exile, P. Waytha Moorthy managed to mobilize and register 10,000 Indians within the span of a week through his roadshows taken across the peninsula. Which political coalition will seize the moment and engage Hindraf which still has the ear of the Indian ground?

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Bruno Manser Fund asking for global bank freeze on Taib assets

taibThe BMF findings, which describe in detail the business activities and personal wealth of 20 members of the Taib family, have been given attentive coverage by our local internet media, though the mainstream and official media have responded with a deafening silence.

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