Readers have recently been flooded with news on the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) recently – over radio, television and the newspapers. Some of the claims made for what is possibly the most ambitious development project packaged for the country are the following: The implementation of 189 projects with an estimated value of RM112 billion … Read more
If it is already our common consensus that Malaysia is a multi-racial country, then we must agree that the country has to show multi-elements: multi-cultures, multi-educations, multi-economy and multi-politics. It is inevitable to have stronger and weaker groups among diversity. Thus, policies to help the weaker group are indeed necessary in certain historical period. But … Read more
‘Speaking for the reformasi generation’ (224 halaman) karya Liew Chin Tong ialah sebuah buku terbitan Refsa/Research for Social Advancement yang baru-baru keluar. Liew, seorang ahli exco pusat DAP merupakan ahli parlimen Bukit Bendera, Pulau Pinang dan kini berpejabat di Komtar sebagai salah seorang pembantu rapat Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng. Sebelum partinya … Read more
Multiethnic Malaysia: Past, Present and Future’ is now available. [See attached flyer.] Jointly published by UCSI University and SIRD, the book of some over 500 pages is edited by Lim Teck Ghee, Alberto Gomes and Azly Rahman. The editors have collated various perspectives from eminent historians, economists and sociologists such as Khoo Kay Kim, Terence … Read more
Oleh kerana Jim tidak sama dengan Islam, maka tidaklah logik jika ulasan itu diperbesar-besarkan dan disamakan dengan Islam telah dihina, lalu didesak agar Akta Hasutan atau ISA diambil terhadap Jeff Ooi. Kempen media aliran perdana untuk memburuk-burukkan DAP sebagai parti anti-Islam telah berhasil buat sementara, sekurang-kurangnya polis telah mengambil keputusan untuk memanggil ketua pemuda Sosialis … Read more
Kee Thuan Chye’s comment, “The Malaysian way to better English??? (The Sun, 14 August) finally lets the cat out of the bag on what really happens in many of the closed door high level brain storming meetings and consultations conducted by the Government on controversial or sensitive issues such as language policy, culture policy, history … Read more
Kee Thuan Chye, who retired from journalism in May, is an advocate of good English, having edited a column on the subject in a national paper for years. He also authored the book March 8: The Day Malaysia Woke Up, which has been translated into Chinese. I was recently invited by the Education Minister … Read more
The conditions for a successful switch to knowledge-led growth requires an effective transit strategy where the government has to get, one, the microeconomic prices, two, the framework institutions, and three, the macroeconomic balances right. The fundamental driver behind knowledge-led growth is the size of the pool of national talent. The enlargement of the national pool … Read more
Saya seorang Melayu. Bapa dan ibu saya orang Melayu. Jua ibubapa mereka. Saya dilahirkan di awal 60an di sebuah kampung terpencil di Kedah, yang rata-rata penduduknya dibelenggu kemiskinan dan kerumitan. Boleh dikatakan semua penduduk Melayu di kampung tersebut mengusahakan sawah bendang, samada yang memiliki tanah ataupun yang menyewa tanah. Terdapat beberapa keluarga Cina – dalam … Read more
