Pandangan yang positif terhadap skim diskaun komuter untuk mereka yang berpendapatan RM3,000 ke bawah dan perkhidmatan percuma GO-KL City adalah salah satu usaha menggalakkan penggunaan sistem perkhidmatan pengangkutan awam dan sewajarnya mendapat sokongan ramai. Para pengguna perkhidmatan pengangkutan awam di Lembah Klang memang menyambut baik segala usaha yang berupaya membantu melicinkan perjalanan ke destinasi… Continue reading Memantapkan perkhidmatan pengangkutan awam sebagai pilihan pertama
Month: October 2012
Before meddling with subsidies, ask why we need subsidies
Two groups, CPI and Refsa-IDEAS, are debating government subsidies. This debate is critical because politicians are taking their cues from it. It is important that good judgement prevails. Much is at stake. But first, what is a subsidy? Why do we need it? Some believe subsidies are government money spent on primary healthcare, infrastructure,… Continue reading Before meddling with subsidies, ask why we need subsidies
Refsa on subsidies: Still off the mark
The response by Research for Social Advancement (Refsa) institute to my note is disappointing. It provides little value added to the current knowledge on subsidies in Malaysia; repeats various motherhood statements about the need to rein in subsidies and selectively focuses on so-called various ivory tower statements that they have detected in my note to… Continue reading Refsa on subsidies: Still off the mark
The Star: How low can it go?
The Star has made a circus out of Sumptuous Erotica, a blog jointly put up by a pair of fresh graduates featuring explicit photographs of their sexual exploits. The paper carried four stories related to the “sex blog couple Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee” yesterday, seven on Saturday and six on Friday, making for a… Continue reading The Star: How low can it go?
Call to extend deadline for consultation on education blueprint
The Centre for Policy Initiatives urges leaders from both sides of the political divide to pay heed to the urgent concerns expressed by educationists and civil society organizations with regard to the National Educational Blueprint 2013-2025. Since its release more than a month ago on Sept 12, the blueprint has drawn markedly little response… Continue reading Call to extend deadline for consultation on education blueprint
Gabungan Bertindak Malaysia recommendations on education blueprint
Press Statement of Gabungan Bertindak Malaysia (GBM)on Education Blueprint 2013-2025 17 October, 2012 GBM is a non-political, multi-racial and multi-religious coalition of over twenty five civil society organisations . During the past year its partner organisations have undertaken in-depth studies and reviews of the National Education System. Please see list of reports on education… Continue reading Gabungan Bertindak Malaysia recommendations on education blueprint
Graduan menganggur kerana kurang kemahiran dan terlampau memilih
Penganggur muda berkelulusan tinggi beban RM500 juta wang pembayar cukai, tajuk berita di The Malaysian Insider yang seharusnya membimbangkan kita semua. RM500 juta bukan jumlah yang kecil dan kenapa penganggur muda perlukan bantuan sebanyak itu? Rencana di portal berita itu memetik firma pengambilan pekerja atas talian terkenal di Asia Tenggara, Jobstreet yang menyatakan bahawa sikap… Continue reading Graduan menganggur kerana kurang kemahiran dan terlampau memilih
Response by Refsa on subsidy contentions
This is a statement by not-for-profit research institute REFSA (Research for Social Advancement) released on Friday, 12 October 2012. Budget 2013: Federal government subsidies go up in flames while poor Malaysians watch We write to rebut Dr Lim Teck Ghee’s assertion that “There is little empirical research to back up what has become an increasingly… Continue reading Response by Refsa on subsidy contentions
Migrants, church may end Malaysia government’s Borneo vote bank
Housewife Fawziah Abdul wants to thank former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad for making her a citizen 10 years after she illegally slipped into Borneo from the southern Philippines in search of a better life. The 50-year-old lives on the outskirts of Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Malaysia’s Sabah state, where her tin-roofed shack jostles… Continue reading Migrants, church may end Malaysia government’s Borneo vote bank
Politics in Malaysia is the most profitable business
I am sure most Malaysians will agree with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in a recent speech that there is more to corruption than government abuses. What more is not conjecture as much of it is in the public domain. Surely it must be evident from the various writings in Malaysiakini, CPI and other… Continue reading Politics in Malaysia is the most profitable business