Z Sunday

Z Sunday chews on Cronesia's Dog Complex where obstacles are being thrown in the path of a pet owner enjoying the companionship of a dog.

There is nothing wrong in telling a story from another angle but the refusal to recognise the Israeli Jews who have, for over half a century, worked on arid land to make it arable is untenable.

Palestine, the cause celebre of Malay-Muslims, has been embraced to the extent that the fate of Penang Malays, who are a minority on home ground, is likened to that of the Palestinians.

The National Service 'Boleh' magic bullet for social cohesion is only an empty shot fired in the air, for all that it aspires to instil racial integration, patriotism and discipline in young Malaysians.

The 18-year-old trainees drafted for National Service (NS) are not blank slates, but products of a racially divisive education system. This two-part report argues that NS propaganda will not square with their frame of reference in achieving integration.

'Alice in Wonderland' is a timeless tale peopled by priceless characters; it is whimsy par excellence built upon a house-of-cards balance between imagination and intent. The 11 ^th Malaysian general election makes an original and equally improbable bedtime story.

When the East Coast is alien terrain and the only source of information about it comes from the Cronesian media, the public receives a skewed picture of the situation there. Z SUNDAY tells it like it is from the other side.

Not all democracies are created equal. There are the democracies in the model states at one end of the continuum, and then, there are the nominal democracies practised in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land at the other. Z SUNDAY looks at the 'guided democracy' at home.

The present 'Dog Complex' is a piece of repressive legislation that should have no place in a country that claims to be multi-cultural and takes pride in its 'tolerance'.

This week Putrajaya celebrates its third anniversary as a federal territory. Z SUNDAY looks at this opulent monument to a profligate era.