Cabinet shelves IJN bid http://rockybru.com.my/2008/12/cabinet-shelves-ijn-bid.html By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru Friday, December 19, 2008 Christmas gift for Malaysians and heroic doctors. The Cabinet, chaired by Pak Lah, has decided to put off a decision on Slime Darby’s bid to take over the cash-rish National Institute Heart (IJN). Najib is expected to announce this at a … Read more
ARTiculations… “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit” : Elbert Hubbard http://art-harun.blogspot.com/2008/12/judicial-appointment-commission.html By Art Harun Friday, December 19, 2008 I have said it a million times before and I will say it again. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi just loves establishing committees and commissions just as … Read more
By Kim Quek December 19,2008 If there is one lesson that we can learn from the just concluded parliamentary debates on the prime minister’s much hyped “reform??? bills, it is that the only way to reform a corrupt autocracy is to get rid of it, not to reform it. In three days of intensive debates … Read more
MAKE A DATE WITH…… http://zorro-zorro-unmasked.blogspot.com/2008/12/make-date-with.html By Bernard Khoo aka zorro Whilst we prepare for Christmas, give a thought to thosewho cannot join us in the festivities and visitations. Teater Bilik Sulit December 17, 2008Teater Bilik Sulit is a play that features the untold true accounts of the nature of Police interrogation of the ISA detainees … Read more
Hands off IJN, please http://rockybru.com.my/2008/12/hands-off-ijn-please.html By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru Anyone with a heart will be alarmed with Sime Darby’s proposal to take over the IJN and turn it into its own revenue generator. The IJN, of National Heart Institute, was built for the rakyat. The reason why the Government set it up when Dr … Read more
By Baradan KuppusamyInter Press Service December 17, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR – Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has tabled two new reform bills, but not surprisingly given his impending exit, both have run into strong opposition within and outside parliament. Abdullah’s hopes of forging a consensus through the two crucial bills, hoped to give him some kind … Read more
In putting together JAC, compromises had to be made According to a source, Zaid refused to budge on certain provisions which he considered imperative. The source confirmed a report by The Malaysian Insider that Zaid did indeed want a 13-member, rather than the proposed nine-member, commission to be formed. By Shannon Teoh, The … Read more
Mindless in Malaysia http://www.bakrimusa.com/archives/mindless-in-malaysia By Dr M Bakri Musa December 14, 2008 It is disheartening to note that while world leaders from Gordon Brown to Barack Obama are consumed with the evolving global economic crisis – the worse since the Great Depression – Malaysian leaders are obsessed with such trivialities as whether yoga would undermine our faith … Read more
Shaping Policy http://malikimtiaz.blogspot.com/2008/12/shaping-policy.html December 11, 2008 I have said elsewhere that decisions of the Federal Court do not only determine the issues in the particular case the court decides on. Being the apex court and empowered to only hear appeals that involve questions of novelty or public importance, decisions of the court in many ways … Read more
Growing up in Singapore … http://rockybru.com.my/2008/12/growing-up-in-singapore.html By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru Monday, December 15, 2008 “…. we had to bear the scorn and barbs of the Chinese superiority complex and it irritates me when C. L. Sharma in her/his article “Ethnicity, Communal Relations and Education in Malaysia” (1979) described post-independence Malays as being “imbued with … Read more