Malaysia mempunyai sekitar 2.2 juta pekerja asing yang sah, hampir 20 peratus dari tenaga kerja negara. Dianggarkan jumlah yang sama untuk pekerja yang tidak berdaftar. Kebanyakan pendekatan Malaysia terhadap penghijrahan adalah untuk menjenayahkannya, walaupun negara ini tidak mampu berfungsi tanpa buruh asing. Penahanan besar-besaran di pasar dan jalanan bandar, dan serbuan rambang tanpa waran … Read more
It is said that in both good and bad times, two professions always flourish – the accountant and the undertaker. But there is a third, seldom mentioned profession which is even more versatile especially when times become worse. We are talking about those in the gambling industry, i.e. operators of casino, lotteries (both legal and … Read more
Lebih setengah daripada golongan bumiputera di Sarawak tidak mempunyai kad pengenalan atau surat kerakyatan mahupun sijil kelahiran. Maka mereka-mereka ini tidak pernah mengundi. Pada masa kini, Sarawak mempunyai sejumlah 924,000 penghuni yang layak mengundi. Akan tetapi, Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya melaporkan bahawa seramai 470,000 orang masih tidak mendaftar sebagai pengundi. Justeru itu, walaupun pilihan raya … Read more
Photo courtesy of Project E.P.I.C Tomorrow and Sunday, you can register as a voter if you haven’t already. Or prod your children to register if they’re of age. Go to either Subang Parade, Amcorp Mall or e@Curve (formerly Cineleisure, Kota Damansara), Selangor. The ‘Voice your Choice’ crews will be manning voter registration booths … Read more
Photo courtesy of Dr Boo Cheng Hau Malaysia is the Asia-Pacific’s “best model??? in dealing with the rights of indigenous peoples – or so it is claimed. On Saturday (incidentally the same day Dr Mahathir Mohamad launched the Perkasa inaugural congress), BN Member of Parliament Dr Makcus Mojigoh said, in his paper presented at a … Read more
Pada Okt 23, 2009 ketika pembentangan Bajet 2010, Perdana Menteri telah mengumumkan bahawa fungsi Kementerian Wilayah Persekutuan akan diperkukuhkan. Disarankan skop kementerian tersebut diperluaskan supaya ia lebih berkesan dalam membasmi kemiskinan bandar. Najib Razak berkata antara tugas utama kementerian ‘baru’ yang bergelar Kementerian Wilayah Persekutuan dan Kesejahteraan Bandar [KWPKB] ialah menyediakan satu pelan tindakan komprehensif. … Read more
CPI Note In all the talk about becoming a high-income country and belonging to the league of developed nations, Malaysians should realize that they are still painfully lacking in the attributes and values that make a nation truly developed. These missing attributes and values are not only the high ethical and moral norms that we … Read more
Memorandum bantahan dasar pemberimilikan tanah Orang Asli oleh gabungan jaringan kampung-kampung Orang Asli semenanjung Malaysia YAB Perdana Menteri Malaysia, YB Menteri Kementerian Kemajuan Luar Bandar dan Wilayah dan Yang Berusaha ketua pengarah JHEOA. Memorandum gabungan jaringan kampung-kampung Orang Asli semenanjung Malaysia bertujuan untuk: Menegaskan bantahan oleh masyarakat Orang Asli terhadap dasar pemberimilikan tanah Orang … Read more
During the recent Perkasa inaugural meeting, Ibrahim Ali expressed his displeasure with Malay heads of government-linked companies (GLCs) for not attending his Malay rights group inaugural congress. He also criticised the GLC heads for being interested in personal interests instead of the interests of the Malay community. Introducing a note of intimidation, he warned … Read more
Kadir Jasin, yet another journalist, has asked this: Am I Malaysian just because I am proud to be a Malay? Kadir isn’t merely challenging the basis for dropping ethnic identification from formal or official documents. More than that, he is actually posing (perhaps without him realising it) an existential question, and a fundamental one. Rephrased, … Read more