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• Malaysia is like Zimbabwe?

  
  Cakap Tak Serupa Bikin — Authority: 121
  Political analyst Abdul Aziz Bari likened those who hold the reins of power in Malaysia to a bunch of thugs. According to him, these individuals do as they please without proper regard for the law of the land and the percepts laid down in the federal constitution. "We are like Zimbabwe, just with another name!" ...
  3 days ago

• Umno, Tsu Koon & an “itchy mouth”

  
  MageP's Lab — Authority: 119
  While KPI Minister Koh Tsu Koon was still fresh from being grilled by the public and media with the recently held government transformation program, he now has another concern to worry about. That is, nothing less than the coveted Penang BN chairmanship, which will determine the chief ministerial role should BN is ...
  3 days ago

• Slacking MPs

  
  MageP's Lab — Authority: 119
  By now, I’m sure the talk of the town is all about the nearly defeated Budget 2010 last night, by the Opposition lawmakers. In the parliament, BN has 137 of the 222 seats, followed by Pakatan Rakyat’s 82 and 3 Independents. If the Budget 2010 was approved with 66 votes for and 63 against, that means more ...
  1 week ago

• Dewan Rakyat Tolak Usul Potong Gaji Hishammuddin RM 100

  
  Voice of Malaysian — Authority: 121
  KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Rakyat malam ini menolak usul untuk memotong gaji Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein sebanyak RM100 sebulan yang dikemukakan oleh anggota Parlimen Batu dari PKR, Tian Chua. Ketika membentangkan usul itu, Tian Chua berkata gaji menteri berkenaan perlu dipotong kerana beliau ...
  1 week ago

• The myth of homogenous ethnic Malaysians: The case of Chinese Malaysians

  
  de minimis — Authority: 416
  An interesting analysis has been done by Rita Sim, the Deputy Chairman if MCAs think-tank, INSAP, in a piece entitled, Untangling complexities of Chinese community where she proposed a framework of segmenting the Chinese Malaysian community into the following categories: A proposed framework for segmenting ...
  1 week ago

• Race and the politically insignificant

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 120
  When asked recently by reporters of what he thought of the lifting of the suspension of the Penang UMNO stalwart Ismail Ahmad from the dominant party in the BN coalition, Gerakan chief Dr Koh Tsu Koon dismissed it as something insignificant. Lest we forget, Ismail’s membership in UMNO was suspended for three ...
  1 week ago

• PKFZ: The barometer of Malaysian government’s vote-ability

  
  Bananachinese's Weblog — Authority: 106
  Me handphone beeped a text message this morning:10/12: Former Port Klang Authority General Manager, Datin Paduka OC Phang and two others were arrested over the PKFZ issue. They will be charged in Klang today./The StarNice.Now let us hear from politicians who dare to stand up for principles and accountability to the ...
  1 week ago

• Where did Malaysians learn to be so biadap?

  
  Niki Cheong — Authority: 464
  The Malaysia I remember growing up in was filled with people who are nice and polite. In school, we learn how to talk to people nicely. We learn how to not point with our fingers and instead use our thumbs. We learn to respect our elders. We learn to put our hand out and stoop if we’re walking in between two people ...
  2 weeks ago

• Back to square one, of who is being racist …

  
  MageP's Lab — Authority: 119
  Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz has branded former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad a ‘racist’ for saying that there was no need to revamp the National Civics Bureau (BTN) training modules. In return, the old man lambasted Nazri as a racist too. “I must be a racist if Nazri says ...
  2 weeks ago

• Of becoming the butt of a joke

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 120
  Penang opposition leader Azhar Ibrahim was reportedly ejected from the state assembly hall after he allegedly showed his butt to the House Speaker in a show of defiance against the call for him to apologise after he refused to retract the use of the word kerat , which the Pakatan Rakyat assemblypersons found it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Double-dipping et al

  
  de minimis — Authority: 416
  It appears that people like me, who fretted over a "W" effect of economic health, may have our worst fears realised. Even sceptics like Paul Krugman are making observations like this : I’ve never been fully committed to the notion that we’re going to have a “double dip” — that the economy will slide ...
  3 weeks ago

• The confession of a minister

  
  MageP's Lab — Authority: 119
  Usually, when you heard about our country’s gloomy economic prospects, almost most of the time, it’s either from the PR coalition or the NGOs. However, here comes the latest twist with the latest revelation from our Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, when he told an economic outlook conference that ...
  3 weeks ago

• RM10,000,000 in London

  
  MageP's Lab — Authority: 119
  Just when you think that Malaysia has enough of Muhammad Muhammad Taib, the same predicament falls on the current Negeri Sembilan MB too. It was a RM4 million worth of Australian dollars siphoned out by the former Selangor MB, but eventually acquitted after he claimed ignorance of Australian laws because he could not ...
  3 weeks ago

• MP Kapar Di Larang Memasuki Kompleks Rakan Muda, Kapar

  
  a Malaysia for Malaysians — Authority: 125
  View Larger MapPegawai Kompleks Rakan Muda, Kapar yang terletak di Kawasan Parlimen Kapar hari ini melarang Jawatankuasa Penganjur  Seminar Keusahawan Wanita Generasi Baru dari menjemput Ahli Parlimen Kapar, YB S. Manikavasagam.Persatuan Belia Metro Klang yang menganjurkan Seminar tersebut telah menjemput ...
  3 weeks ago

• We don’t need no (BTN) education

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 120
  Biro Tata Negara ( BTN ), that government outfit set up under the Prime Minister’s Department, has become the talk of town the last one week or so as accounts from several people who had undergone its courses suggest that it funtions primarily as a brainwashing mechanism to promote ruling BN and racism, and at the ...
  3 weeks ago

• HINDRAF ANNIVERSARY : LAUGHING MATTER AS INDIAN BEEN FOOLISH

  
  The New Politickler — Authority: 125
  Received an Email message reads :In Putrajaya, Hindraf chairperson P Waythamoorty’s daughter Vaishnavi and wife K Shanti attempted to hand over a letter containing the 18 demands at the Prime Minister’s Office.They arrived about 2.45pm but ran into a stand-off with a representative of the premier’s office.The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Namewee, Rais Yatim & Disharmony

  
  MageP's Lab — Authority: 119
  Remember Namewee? Well, he is back, this time, it’s all about the inefficient TNB. With that, Information, Communications, Cul­ture and Arts Minister Dr Rais Yatim has something to say. “We cannot allow acts that insult which could lead to disharmony,” he said. Disharmony? That fella must be very serious ...
  4 weeks ago

• Well … Well … Well …

  
  MageP's Lab — Authority: 119
  Well, I’m not surprised with the decision from the Court of Appeal. It’s not the first time and it’s definitely not going to be the last time, let’s see how much time it will take for the judiciary to restore the confidence of the people. Remember Perak? Now, it’s merely a repetitive of the first case, ...
  4 weeks ago

• MCA do not worry - UMNO will solve your internal problems

  
  CHARLES HECTOR — Authority: 427
  Yes, now it is the Deputy President of UMNO (the DPM) who is publicly humiliating MCA... If an outsider is needed to resolve an internal problem, surely there could be some senior MCA member that could be roped in.. And even if the UMNO leadership was being called in, irrespective of the fact that it is PM ...
  4 weeks ago

• Malaysia’s democratic deficit

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 536
  Author: Greg Lopez, ANU The reforms in the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) may be a step in the right direction. Already, there are detractors suggesting that the reforms are meaningless as corruption is entrenched in Malaysia. What is more serious is Malaysia’s democratic deficit which undermines the ...
  4 weeks ago

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