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• Lesotho to Migrate to Digital Broadcasting By 2015

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 448
  Lesotho Communications, Science and Technology Minister Mothejoa Metsing has said that his country had joined the rest of the world in making a landmark decision to migrate terrestrial television from analogue to digital broadcasting by June 2015. Speaking during a stakeholders’ forum on digital migration in the ...
  21 hours ago

• Aiseh...What Is This Ah?

  
  The Nocturnal Mind — Authority: 121
  Two well known bloggers. Dato’ Mohd Ariff Sabri the former ADUN of Pulau Manis, Pekan who blogs under the name Sakmongkol AK47. His latest post, " Who is minding the Store? " describes a looming issue. Also included below is blogger Aisehman’s post on the same issue in his own blog. It appears the country is ...
  23 hours ago

• 2009 Minus 1993 = 16 Years

  
  The Nocturnal Mind — Authority: 121
  16 years ago, this was Anwar Ibrahim and most of his speeches (especially to Malay audiences), even when not in a BTN seminar were expected to sound like he did. Nothing shocking except that someone took the trouble to dig out that footage. I think this gives Anwar a very good opportunity to turn the tables on ...
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• A LOOK ON WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 112
  When the environment becomes less valuable or damaged, environmental degradation is said to occur. There are many forms of environmental degradation.   When habitats are destroyed, biodiversity is lost, or natural resources are depleted, the environment is hurt.     A habitat is a more permanent ecosystem ...
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• The myth of homogenous ethnic Malaysians: The case of Chinese Malaysians

  
  de minimis — Authority: 417
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Isn’t racism as dangerous as communism?

  
  Dr. Hsu's forum — Authority: 415
  A top leader of Gerakan was quoted in Chinese Malaysiakini to give this answer when pressed by reporters about Ahamd Ismail: ” Is this issue important?” At the same time,a top  Penang Gerakan was quoted to ask reporters that ” what position is Ahmad occupying in UMNO?”, implying that since AI is not among ...
  4 days ago

• Last Plant Standing

  
  Journal Watch Online — Authority: 462
  Coastal vegetation may not offer much protection against tsunamis
  5 days ago

• Health Statistics Quarterly 2009 (No.44)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 143
  Title: Social inequalities in female mortality by region and be selected causes of death, England and Wales, 2001-03 Skinny: Fifth in a series of articles reporting mortality using the final version of the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC). Reports on social inequalities in female ...
  5 days ago

• Now Will The Fat Lady Sing?

  
  The Nocturnal Mind — Authority: 121
  K udos to the handlers of MACC. This bird is a good start but will it sing if not in captivity? Bail should be set at at least RM10,000,000 for a start. This from the Malaysian Insider: Former PKA general manager, two others arrested KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 — Datin Paduka O.C. Phang, a former general ...
  5 days ago

• CPI-M furious over management awards against ‘Stalinists’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) A private management institute’s decision to give awards Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and some intellectuals for their efforts to free West Bengal from ‘Stalinists’ has raised the hackles of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).The CPI-M’s ire followed full-page ...
  6 days ago

• Pack Mentality

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  When my son was two years old, we got a Samoyed puppy, and for the next 18 months they were the best of friends. Then the dog changed. Suddenly she started growling at my son and biting him. At first I thought that maybe he was pulling her tail or something else that was irritating her, but that wasn’t it. ...
  6 days ago

• Why is it so hard for Economists to make a substantial critique of the LTV?

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  Image via Wikipedia Or: Brad DeLong tries and fails to refute the (Marxian) LTV . I won’t go into the details on why Brad didn’t attempt to argue against the LTV but rather against the moral basis of Marx’s theory of exploitation as Kapitalism101 already skewered that particular misunderstanding . What ...
  6 days ago

• Why is it so hard for Economists to make a substantial critique of the LTV?

  
  A Division by Zer0 — Authority: 409
  Image via Wikipedia Or: Brad DeLong tries and fails to refute the (Marxian) LTV . I won’t go into the details on why Brad didn’t attempt to argue against the LTV but rather against the moral basis of Marx’s theory of exploitation as Kapitalism101 already skewered that particular misunderstanding . What ...
  6 days ago

• A slap on the face again

  
  Dr. Hsu's forum — Authority: 415
  In  September 2008, UMNO Supreme Council decided to suspend Ahmad Ismail for 3 years for uttering racist remarks. Many people had in fact asked that ISA be used against him, but as an ISA opponent myself, I was against practising double standard, and i thought he should not be held under iSA but should instead face ...
  6 days ago

• Time To Go Buddy...

  
  The Nocturnal Mind — Authority: 121
  Having followed Che Dets blog from inception and watching him today, I feel a tinge of pity for the man. I am 50 this year and for the most part of my life, Mahathir has been in the limelight and in the thick of politics in Malaysia. To say that this man affected my life is an understatement. The same can be said ...
  1 week ago

• Substitute BTN course with that of Human Rights

  
  Dr. Hsu's forum — Authority: 415
  I support the call to scrap the BTN courses by Ku Li, as carried in Malaysiakini today. In my opinion, instead of this course, all civil servants, including police and other enforcement agencies, should attend a course on our Constitution as well as Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Maybe it is not a bad idea ...
  1 week ago

• When people become selfish animals

  
  Dr. Hsu's forum — Authority: 415
  Since the place where I work is very close to a LRT station, and the place where I stay is about 15 minutes walk from another LRT station, I sometimes  take the light transit to work, especially when I send my car fro servicing or when there is something wrong with my car. Not that I enjoy taking the LRT. Those of ...
  1 week ago

• River of Black Gold

  
  Journal Watch Online — Authority: 462
  Alberta’s oil sands industry may threaten fish
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• COMFORT ZONES

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  COMFORT ZONES   Im sure youre familiar with the term "one mans passion is another mans poison". As simple as it may seem, this phrase literally brings balance to life. Think of how mundane and colorless this world would be if everyone had the same passions and expressed precisely the same thoughts.   Sometimes ...
  1 week ago

• Simple Solution To The BTN Issue

  
  The Nocturnal Mind — Authority: 121
  Since most quarters accept that the course content of the BTN needs to be revamped and be more in line with 1Malaysia ideals, revamped it should be. Then what? Leave it to the same lecturers/speakers to warp their presentation according to their established bias? So what is the solution? The problem reminds me ...
  1 week ago

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