Hands off IJN, please http://rockybru.com.my/2008/12/hands-off-ijn-please.html By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru Anyone with a heart will be alarmed with Sime Darby’s proposal to take over the IJN and turn it into its own revenue generator. The IJN, of National Heart Institute, was built for the rakyat. The reason why the Government set it up when Dr … Read more
By Baradan KuppusamyInter Press Service December 17, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR – Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has tabled two new reform bills, but not surprisingly given his impending exit, both have run into strong opposition within and outside parliament. Abdullah’s hopes of forging a consensus through the two crucial bills, hoped to give him some kind … Read more
In putting together JAC, compromises had to be made According to a source, Zaid refused to budge on certain provisions which he considered imperative. The source confirmed a report by The Malaysian Insider that Zaid did indeed want a 13-member, rather than the proposed nine-member, commission to be formed. By Shannon Teoh, The … Read more
Mindless in Malaysia http://www.bakrimusa.com/archives/mindless-in-malaysia By Dr M Bakri Musa December 14, 2008 It is disheartening to note that while world leaders from Gordon Brown to Barack Obama are consumed with the evolving global economic crisis – the worse since the Great Depression – Malaysian leaders are obsessed with such trivialities as whether yoga would undermine our faith … Read more
Shaping Policy http://malikimtiaz.blogspot.com/2008/12/shaping-policy.html December 11, 2008 I have said elsewhere that decisions of the Federal Court do not only determine the issues in the particular case the court decides on. Being the apex court and empowered to only hear appeals that involve questions of novelty or public importance, decisions of the court in many ways … Read more
Growing up in Singapore … http://rockybru.com.my/2008/12/growing-up-in-singapore.html By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru Monday, December 15, 2008 “…. we had to bear the scorn and barbs of the Chinese superiority complex and it irritates me when C. L. Sharma in her/his article “Ethnicity, Communal Relations and Education in Malaysia” (1979) described post-independence Malays as being “imbued with … Read more
http://www.thenutgraph.com/govt-repeal-isa-amend-act-597-suhakam Written by BernamaPublished by The Nut GraphDecember 15, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, 15 Dec 2008: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) today reiterated that the Internal Security Act (ISA) should be repealed and Act 597 pertaining to the formation of the commission be amended so that it complied to the Paris Principles. It also took to … Read more
The article presents information on urbanization in Malaya. The peoples of Malaya are of different racial origins, have different religious practices, different social customs and to a large degree different occupations. The influx of immigrants began when the British became interested in large scale economic development of Malayan rubber and tin resources in the nineteenth … Read more
Of It Has No Religion http://maddruid.com/?p=1906 This was the Wall Street Journal Asia in the week of the attack on Mumbai. Not that I fully agree with it but I thought it sufficiently captures that there are oppositions among Muslims against the use of terror, contrary to accusation that terror happens because the moderates do … Read more
Highland Towers Case Recalled http://constructionrisk.blogspot.com/2006/02/highland-tower-tragedy.html Sunday, February 05, 2006 This landmark case arose out of the 1993 tragedy of the collapse of a tower block in the Highland Towers development in Ampang, just outside the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur leading to loss of life and the loss of use of the Blocks that remained … Read more