0000Can you blame many Malaysians – including me - to be quite unmoved by all this excitement about who stands where, and why?
0The candidate’s campaign team would naturally try to create an ideal public profile of a man of the people, a haughty image that few mortal fallible human beings can live up to.
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Of all the issues that divide a political party, none is more divisive than the issue of candidature.
0new Chua Soi Lek is just the latest victim of this brand of political culture, but the real victim of this latest fiasco is the development of healthy political culture in Malaysia.
0As the young people start their New Year’s Eve countdown, they would have little inkling of history. The enthusiasm of youth for the future is complemented only by their ignorance of the past.
0new Another problem is also that we fallible human beings do not really know all that much about how to love others and ourselves.
0One of the most important parliamentary conventions is that the parliament ground is sacrosanct.
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The crisis in Burma does reveal the hypocrisy beneath all that talk of justice and human rights in international politics.
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I too can furnish a wish list of how things ought to be like in another 50 years in Malaysia. But if paupers can ride horses, wishes can come true.
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The Chinese will tell you that they love Malaysia in their own way, despite the stupid politics.
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