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Three significant characteristics of the system of Malaysian electoral politics make it inimical to the interests of the Indian poor. It is based on simple electoral majorities, it is ethnocentric and it works to provide moral cover for the Malaysian elite. And it has become conventional wisdom that since Indians do not form a … Read more
The Election Commission will conduct a month-long campaign from June 1 to June 30 to allow all registered voters to verify the accuracy of their voting particulars. This campaign is part of the EC’s effort to clean up the electoral roll comprising 12.6 million voters registered up till 31 Dec 2011. Any inaccuracies with respect … Read more
I thank Datuk R. Chander, the former Chief Statistician of Malaysia, on his article titled ‘The Numbers Game: Stateless Indians in Malaysia’. This article was written in response to my article titled ‘450,000 stateless Indians in Malaysia, fact or fiction?’ Though I do agree with Datuk Chander that this issue concerns numbers but to the … Read more
The founding of Proton National Bhd in 1983 was a big expensive mistake to begin with. Billions of ringgit from taxpayers have been lost in the process. The haemorrhage could not be stanched until only recently when Khazanah Nasional Berhad sold off its 43 percent stake in Proton to DRB-Hicom a few months ago. Malaysians … Read more
Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor semalam menahan pengarah sebuah syarikat penerbitan berhubung pencetakan buku kontroversi ‘Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta’. Jais telah menyerbu premis ZI Publication di Merchant Square, Petaling Jaya sekali dengan waran untuk menangkap Ezra Zaid. Beliau disiasat di bawah Seksyen 16 (1) (a) Enakmen Jenayah Syariah (Negeri Selangor) atas tuduhan menerbitkan buku yang bertentangan … Read more
The Evidence (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2012 will come into operation in a few days on June 1. The impact of this hastily and stealthily rushed legislation could be devastating. De facto law minister Nazri Abdul Aziz denies that amendments to the Evidence Act were a means for the government to curb online dissent by making … Read more
Once again it is clear that the Malaysian cabinet lacks a minister to adequately represent the interests of workers, and that the Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam and his ministry are biased in favour of employers. The minister’s recent statement echoing the claim of employers that a job-hopping young Malaysian workforce was what drove … Read more
The Human Rights Party in a 2010 meeting with the National Registration Department had informed the officers that HRP estimated stateless Indians to number 450,000 nationwide. The problem of exclusion is one universally acknowledged to be the source of various social ills in any given society. This reduced Indian participation in Malaysian democracy that arose … Read more
Although I do not know Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim personally, I have friends who have known him for many years, with a few that know him very well. This analysis of Tunku Aziz is based partly on my discussions with them as well as my analysis of events since his resignation from the DAP. It is … Read more
The 13th Malaysian general elections will be held sometime between now and April 2013. These elections have the potential to be the most free and fair elections held in the country for several decades. For the coming elections to live up to this potential, we call on the government and other major players and … Read more