PARTI Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) will face its moment of truth tomorrow, 15 April 2009. The party will decide whether it will accept Selangor executive councillor (exco) Elizabeth Wong‘s offer of resignation following the distribution of intimate photos of her. Wong has done the honourable thing by offering her party a choice about whether to retain […]
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Planning for a city
By KW MakI HAD the pleasure of attending the World Class Sustainable Cities 2009 seminar recently organised by the Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association Malaysia (Redha), Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP) and Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM). The speakers were experts in various fields that ranged from transport to cityscape infrastructure and building development. I would […]
Tanda tanya di Lembah Bujang
Oleh Shanon Shah50 MAI nak habaq sat. Kalagam, Kadaram, Kataha — ini semua nama Tamil dan Sanskrit yang digunakan seawal kurun kedua dan ketiga selepas Masihi untuk merujuk kepada negeri Kedah. Chieh-ch’a dan Kie-tch’a pula digunakan oleh ahli pelayaran Cina seawal kurun ketujuh selepas Masihi untuk merujuk kepada negeri Kedah. Kedah juga digelar Kalah atau Kalah-bar oleh […]
The Dayak urban-rural divide
By Sim Kwang YangTHE loss of Jawah Gerang and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) in Batang Ai by a shocking majority of 1,854 votes has jolted many party members and supporters to the core. I hear that even on the morning of polling day on 7 April 2009, some of Jawah’s closest associates were still expecting a glorious victory […]
Najib’s ploy
By Jacqueline Ann SurinLEST we allow our new prime minister to get away with a slick public relations exercise, here are some cold hard statistics about previous prime ministers and the Internal Security Act (ISA). In July 1981, two weeks into office as prime minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad released 21 ISA detainees. As he himself candidly admitted […]
From Gantang Hill to mountain
By Wong Chin HuatCorrected on 9 April 2009 at 12.05pm IT is furthest from the truth to declare that the results of the triple by-elections on 7 April 2009 are about the status quo being maintained. Such an analysis, which focuses only on the number of seats each political party has, would fail to see the forest for […]
Random political slogan generator!
By Zedeck SiewWITH all the political tumult of the past year, it was perhaps inevitable that some tech-savvy individual cobbled together a little click-it-yourself instant-humour machine: the Malaysian Election Slogan Generator. It’s a Flash widget, clearly a riff off curiosities like the Hipster Tee Shirt Generator. It randomly picks from three different categories — background colour, monochrome […]
Language tussle
By Hafidz BaharomI WAS brought up in a rather apolitical background, though back in school, I had teachers preaching the whole concept of “Takkan hilang Melayu di dunia”, complete with the image of that bronze cast sculpture of Hang Tuah right next to it. Those were simpler days. I went through both primary and secondary schools in […]
Election lethargy in Indonesia
By Farish A NoorSession of the Indonesian People’s Representative Council (public domain, source: wikipedia.org) WHILE Malaysians are excited by the prospect of three simultaneous by-elections on 7 April 2009, Indonesians next door are showing distinctive signs of electoral fatigue. A news report featured on Indonesia’s Trans7 TV channel summed up the prevailing mood when it reported on a […]
The last Rajah’s battlefield
By Wong Chin HuatPolice on guard during the Ijok by-election (pic by Danny Lim) THE 7 April Batang Ai by-election actually has more similarities with the 2007 by-election for the Selangor state seat of Ijok than to the other two by-elections in Bukit Gantang and Bukit Serambau that will happen on the same day. Batang Ai is certainly […]
