Corrected at 3:25pm, 27 Oct 2009 I MUST say that Budget 2010, announced by Datuk Seri Najib Razak on 23 Oct 2009, contained quite a few surprises for better or for worse. And my observation is from someone who has pored through the government’s budget over the past five years. (Source: babble.com) For one, I’ll […]
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Historical threesomes
By Nick ChooPatrick Teoh as US President Franklin D Roosevelt during the script reading of The Yalta ConferenceLAST Tuesday, on 19 Oct 2009, I attended a script reading of The Yalta Conference at the Instant Café House of Arts and Ideas (Chai). It was Japanese playwright Hirata Oriza‘s fictitious account of the wartime meeting held in February […]
Mengenang Layar Impian
Oleh Shanon ShahElla (Sumber: Facebook Ella & The Boys) PINDAAN perlembagaan Umno — bersejarah atau tidak? Pergolakan MCA — mana hala tujunya? Pergolakan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) — apa nak jadi? Apakah maksud sebenar keputusan pilihanraya kecil Bagan Pinang? Kepala saya sudah mahu pecah dengan kekalutan politik sekarang. Saya mahu kembali ke zaman yang lebih aman, yang […]
Where are Malaysia’s leaders?
By Jacqueline Ann SurinGermans standing on top of the Berlin Wall in 1989; it would be torn down in the following days (Wiki commons) “WHAT I wonder is, where are our leaders? It seems as if there is nobody Malaysians can look up to for leadership,” the woman in the audience said. I was moderating a panel discussion […]
Whose truth?
By Deborah LohAYM logo (source: Facebook.com) WHERE lies the future of traditional media outlets in the face of blogs and other new media sources? This is not a new discussion, but my thoughts on the subject became more solidified over the past week. At the Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM) 2009 summit in Mexico City which I […]
Game over for PR in Perak?
By Wong Chin HuatSIX months ago, when Datuk Seri Najib Razak first took over as prime minister in April 2009, no one would have expected him to be able to draw a mass rally numbering between 30,000 and 50,000 people in Perak. Indeed, he even avoided the campaign in the Bukit Gantang by-election a few days after his […]
Tales from a Councillor: Residents, developers and mechanics
By KW MakPART of my work as a Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) councillor involves mediating disputes between resident groups and various parties. From experience, things are not always what they appear to be. There are no morals to these stories, save those that readers interpret for themselves. (Lamp by Dan Edwards; yin-yang by hisks / sxc.hu) […]
Connectivity, mobility and sustainability
By Datuk Abu Bakar JaafarPublic transportation needs improving (all pics © Lainie Yeoh) NO amount of investment in infrastructure for transportation and logistics has been able to cope with the pressing demand for fast and efficient transportation for people, goods and services. Despite the accelerated advancement in information and communication technology, there is an increasing number of workers who […]
The shape of books to come?
By Cindy ThamLevel 26, with accompanying website “TO SEE the interrogation, log into LEVEL26.com and enter the code: violated.” I’m halfway through the digi-novel Level 26: Dark Origins. The note provides the code to access another cyber-bridge, an online video that’s part of the whole multi-platform literary experience. I put the book down, log into the website, […]
Winning the next elections
By Wong Chin HuatTHERE are three ways to understand the stunning outcome of the Bagan Pinang by-election: Najib, Isa and the Pakatan Rakyat (PR). If you believe that the Barisan Nasional (BN)’s victory is really about Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia, then you would have to accept that Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad and the money politics […]
