Posted in In the News on May 31st, 2007 2 Comments »
Malay Mail, today HEALTH Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek came under fire from several quarters yesterday following his statement which was construed as ‘defending’ Assunta Hospital on the controversy surrounding the death of road bully victim Yek Yow Ngan. Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations president N. Marimuthu lambasted Chua’s apparent stance, chiding the [...]
Posted in Parliament on May 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
Dear friends, Thank you so much for sharing with me your views and ideas on what I should ask in the parliament. I have taken some of your suggested questions this time. I will try to give you the answers via my blog. Fyi, there is a format in framing Parliament questions. Each question cannot [...]
Posted in Legal, Media Statements on May 30th, 2007 8 Comments »
The Verdict Of The Federal Court On Lina Joy’s Case Is A Setback Against Religious Freedom In Malaysia The 2-1 decision of the Federal Court to deny Lina Joy her choice to remove the word “Islam” from her identity card and pass the buck to the Syariah Court has dismayed and alarmed many Malaysians of [...]
Posted in In the News, Social on May 30th, 2007 4 Comments »
The proposal to bring in domestic help from China has triggered strong opposition from women leaders of Chinese-based parties in the Barisan Nasional and the DAP who fear that Chinese nationals might wreck Malaysian families. “There is distrust of Chinese nationals among the local Chinese community as even now there are many broken marriages because [...]
Posted in Bits n Pieces on May 30th, 2007 Comments Off
My blogger mate from Politics 101 asked me to answer a series of questions for an interview about two months ago and I agreed, but I was too busy and had no time to answer all the questions then. In the past week he told me he wanted to include the interview in the 50 [...]
Posted in Announcements on May 29th, 2007 Comments Off
Comments from unregistered readers are sometimes held in the moderation queue for up to a few days as I do not have the luxury of time to check every day. I sugguest you register through the site admin link in sidebar. It is a painless process and takes just two minutes. As a registered user, [...]
Posted in Announcements on May 28th, 2007 Comments Off
English Forum: Civil Service Excellence: Quality vs Quantity “The Government must hence take the painful but very important step of trimming the civil service sector into a leaner and more efficient “machine”. The increase in pay will be a waste of public funds, if the move is not accompanied by a corresponding increase in civil [...]
Posted in Burma on May 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
This is an excerpt from Number One Wisma Putra published by the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations of Malaysia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006. In it, former UN Special Envoy Razali Ismail tells of his encounters with Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese military junta.
