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| Mend fences with Umno, Nik Aziz told |
| Rahmah Ghazali | Jul 2, 09 6:29pm |
| Umno supreme council member Rais Yatim took opportunity of the ongoing crisis in Kedah to take a dig at PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat |
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| Bored to death |
| Dean Johns | Jul 1, 09 11:58am |
| Some weeks I get so bored with writing this column that I felt like slashing my wrists instead, if only I could be bothered. Not that I have nobody but |
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| Public land theft: The Subang Ria Park |
| KJ John | Jun 30, 09 10:24am |
| Under our current system of Local Governance, there are many weaknesses that allow the "official theft of public spaces agreed and planned for as |
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| Refugees from reality |
| Dean Johns | Jun 24, 09 10:41am |
| I’m constantly amazed and appalled at how many people are happy to abandon their humanity in the face of inconvenient or unpalatable reality and |
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| Legacy of a father's love |
| KJ John | Jun 23, 09 12:03pm |
| As we celebrated Father's Day, how do we know that our father loves and cares for us? Well, within the older Merdeka generation, our parents demonstrated |
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| How to speak about Islam |
| Azly Rahman | Jun 22, 09 12:43pm |
| The debate on who should or should not speak about Islam continues to be an interesting topic especially in Malaysia. Non-Muslims are also joining the |
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| Israeli delegation in Jakarta on Palestine |
| Terry Lacey | Jun 22, 09 10:22am |
| A delegation of Israelis was in Jakarta recently for a series of meetings aimed at garnering support for a negotiated two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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| The deputy emperor's new clothes |
| K Sugumaran | Jun 18, 09 10:48am |
| The near constant cry has been listening to the people, get closer to them as part of efforts to win back hearts and minds after the March 8 2008 shock. |
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| Good journalists see hues of grey |
| Eric Loo | Jun 18, 09 10:30am |
| Where others see events and people, journalists see issues and stories. Where others are content with routine, journalists see alternatives. Where others |
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| Twisters in Islam |
| Dean Johns | Jun 17, 09 12:09pm |
| Those of us who have been suppressing our suspicions of PAS in our desperation to perceive it as an ally in our efforts to eventually write ‘The |
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| PAS has crossed the limit |
| KJ John | Jun 16, 09 11:05am |
| I am sorry but PAS, at their recent General Assembly, has crossed the limits of human decency and civility in matters of national multi-ethnic governance. |
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| Obama and Asean: a new dawn? |
| Josh Hong | Jun 12, 09 12:44pm |
| In her testimony to Congress on her confirmation as Secretary of State in January this year, Hilary Clinton broached the idea of the United States as a |
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| A country for old men |
| K Sugumaran | Jun 11, 09 12:14pm |
| It surprises me how as you grow older and are placed amidst the right surroundings, the mind travels back to your childhood days. Let me hasten to add |
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| Obama's Eight Commandments |
| Dean Johns | Jun 10, 09 11:47am |
| Barack Obama may or may not be divinely inspired, but he can certainly deliver a soul-stirring sermon. Not that I’m suggesting that he imagines himself |
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| Giving integrity awards |
| KJ John | Jun 9, 09 2:12pm |
| The CM of Penang recently announced an Integrity Award for public officials who are "truth-speakers and seekers," or "whistle-blowers," or to those who give feedback that leads to reduction and the revelation of obvious corruption within their jurisdictions. |
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| Incompetence at all levels |
| M Bakri Musa | Jun 4, 09 12:28pm |
The chief function of a police force is to maintain public safety. No sane Malaysian would consider Raja Petra or Lim Kit Siang posing a threat to public order. The only threat they pose is in exposing corruption and dereliction of duty at the highest levels of our government. |
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| 'You'll be right, mate,' so says the Aussie to foreign students |
| Eric Loo | Jun 4, 09 11:05am |
| Malaysian students had to learn and acculturate to the Aussie social rules in a very short time - in fact, right after clearing immigration at Sydney airport - to reorientate to the dialectical learning environment and free-spirit social space in Australian universities. |
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| Tanks for the memory, China |
| Dean Johns | Jun 3, 09 10:45am |
| That the Chinese Communist Party wants the world to forget the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989 is the best reason I can think of for forever |
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| Time for new values? |
| KJ John | Jun 2, 09 11:12am |
| The public revelation of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) audit report took Najib's governance of the Barisan Nasional (BN) political leadership to new levels of transparency, at least in my view. |
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