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Malacca

Remembering when race didn’t matter

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | August 19, 2010 13 Comments

SECOND to the panda logo, Datuk Dr Dionysius Sharma is probably the next most synonymous face associated with WWF-Malaysia. His career with the environmental conservation group has spanned two decades, beginning in 1990 when he started out as a leatherback turtle project officer in Terengganu. Dr Dino, as many call him, became WWF-Malaysia’s executive director […]

“Child marriages” just a political game

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | August 9, 2010 45 Comments

THE recent announcement by Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam that Muslim children in the state will be allowed to marry just boggles the mind. According to Ali Rustam, who is also Malacca Islamic Religious Council chairperson, allowing child marriages will help curb teenage pregnancy and baby dumping, and prevent pregnant teenagers from […]

Wee Ka Siong, the kampung boy

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | August 5, 2010 20 Comments

HE says he believes in 1Malaysia because he has really lived through it. A politician for 18 out of his 42 years, Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong is currently MCA Youth chief and deputy education minister. He is also now the Member of Parliament for Ayer Hitam in Johor, but he still has fond memories […]

Loke Siew Fook (Rasah)

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | February 2, 2010 1 Comment

RASAH Member of Parliament Loke Siew Fook responds to the MP Watch: Eye on Parliament project, which asks all 222 MPs the same six questions about parliamentary democracy in Malaysia. Three of the questions were selected by readers and three others by The Nut Graph.  Name: Loke Siew FookConstituency: Rasah Party: DAP (Opposition)Years as MP: […]

Truth is beauty

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | January 7, 2010 1 Comment

HER grandfather was Tun Tan Cheng Lock, the first president of the MCA who worked hand-in-hand with Umno President Tunku Abdul Rahman and MIC president Tun VT Sambanthan to fight for Malaya’s independence. Her father was Tun Tan Siew Sin, also a former president of the MCA, and the country’s longest-serving finance minister (1959-1974). A […]

Dismantling divisive barriers

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | November 26, 2009 10 Comments

DATUK Karam Chand Vohrah, better known as KC Vohrah, almost didn’t study law. “I was supposed to have been a medical student,” the respected former Court of Appeal judge says. “I won an award to study medicine in India but when I arrived there, I was rejected because I had problems with one eye. They […]

Where’s Penang’s heritage money?

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | September 23, 2009 5 Comments

“The Government will provide an allocation of RM50 million for conservation works of heritage sites in Malacca and Penang, to support activities undertaken by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and [the] private sector.” Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi during his 2009 budget speech in Parliament. The former prime minister, who was also finance minister, referred to Malacca and […]

Muhyiddin calls for unity of Muslims

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | May 15, 2009 5 Comments

MALACCA, 15 May 2009: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today called on the leadership of Islamic political parties to unite to strengthen the “ummah” (Muslims) and their economy. He said disunity and quarrels among Muslims in the country would lead to its destruction.  “Logically, the unity of Muslims in the country as the […]

38 suspected meningitis cases still warded

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | May 12, 2009 Leave a Comment

PUTRAJAYA, 12 May 2009: Thirty-eight people are still under treatment for suspected meningitis at the Malacca Hospital following an outbreak of the disease among trainees of the Road Transport Department (JPJ) Academy in Malacca on 9 May. Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said in a statement today that two of the […]

More warded for suspected meningitis

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | May 11, 2009 Leave a Comment

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 May 2009: The number of Road Transport Department (JPJ) trainees admitted to the isolation ward of the Melaka Hospital for suspected meningitis has increased to 29 while another two trainees still remained in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said today that there were 11 new […]

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