Prime minister Najib Razak last week announced a ‘windfall’ of RM15,000 to each Felda settler family. The planned payout is to come from the Felda initial public offering on the Felda Global Ventures Holding (FGVH) listing. As part of the IPO of FGVH, Felda will be disposing 1.21 billion of its current FGVH shares at … Read more
Pengenalan oleh CPI Felda Global Ventures Holding (FGVH) bakal disenaraikan di Papan Utama Bursa Malaysia dalam masa terdekat ini, iaitu sebelum menjangkau pertengahan 2012. Tawaran awam permulaan (IPO) untuk FGVH terdiri daripada gabungan satu tawaran jualan saham vendor oleh Felda beserta dengan IPO tersebut. Sebanyak 2.19 bilion saham (60%) daripada modal saham berjumlah 3.65 bilion … Read more
Adakah kita perlu bimbang tentang berita bahawa bilangan rakyat Malaysia berumur 25 tahun ke atas yang tidak pernah berkahwin adalah seramai 2.5 juta orang atau 16.7 peratus daripada jumlah penduduk negara. Statistik ini berdasarkan Banci Penduduk dan Perumahan Malaysia 2010. Banci itu juga menunjukkan daripada jumlah tersebut, 60.4 peratus adalah lelaki dan 39.6 peratus lagi … Read more
The BBC on Tuesday carried a most thought-provoking interview with Andreas Schleicher, the man responsible for the highly-influential Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests. Pisa is the leading benchmark for measuring pupils’ skills in reading, numeracy and science globally. In the article headlined ‘China: The world’s cleverest country?’, Schleicher was quoted as saying China’s … Read more
In my note to Chandra on May 6 which he acknowledged, and which was sent well before this latest rebuttal, I had written: “I hope we can have a sustained discussion on the important subject that you have identified. I don’t think a one-off debate is a good way to have that discussion. I know politicians … Read more
It is a pity that Dr Lim Teck Ghee has chosen to ignore some of the arguments and analyses I had presented in my earlier reply, and instead has clung stubbornly to his dogmatic position on the political scenario in the country today. “Irrefutable fact” An example of this is his warped reasoning on … Read more
I have followed with some interest the on-going arguments between the MIC and a number of PKR leaders on the status of Indians born in Malaysia who do not enjoy the rights of Malaysian citizenship. My attention has also been drawn to a recent article by Dr Paraman Subramanian entitled 450,000 stateless Indians in Malaysia, … Read more
I thank Chandra for responding to my commentary on his lambasting of Bersih 3.0. Although the Center for Policy Initiatives (CPI) is reproducing his response in full, there is really very little new in the engagement. Basically Chandra has rehashed his arguments on the far-reaching changes to human rights and political and civil liberties … Read more
Dr Lim Teck Ghee’s attack on me (CPI, 4 May 2012) does not come as a surprise. I would not have bothered to respond to him except that he has raised a couple of points about political change in the country and my stand on the electoral process that need to be rebutted. Are the … Read more
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, speaking at a media conference after his lecture on ‘The Challenges Faced by Muslims Now’ organised by the Terengganu state government on May 3 was reported to have said: “Air Asia fares are so cheap, sometimes free, but it has been able to provide service for the last 10 years. Logically the … Read more