*Everything under control, says Hishammuddin, The Edge, 11 Jan 2010** Hisham defends cow-head protestors, The Malaysian Insider, 2 Sept 2009 The Nut Graph needs your support Please take our five-minute reader survey
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Allah debate #1
By Ding Jo-Ann and Lainie Yeoh*Quote by Dr Mohd Farid Mohd Shahran taken from “Allah” can be discussed calmly, The Nut Graph, 12 Jan 2010 The Nut Graph needs your support Please take our five-minute reader survey
Accountability a la Malaysia
By Lainie YeohLainie Yeoh would like to see some accountability around here. The Nut Graph needs your support Please take our five-minute reader survey
Losing the BTN plot
By Shanon ShahHOW have Malaysians been discussing the recent controversy over the Biro Tata Negara (BTN) programmes? Let us count the ways. There are those who defend the BTN courses, such as Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. Then there are the critics. Some, like de facto Law Minister […]
Stay or go?
By Deborah Loh(Pic by dljt / sxc.hu)THERE seems little to look forward to, having just come out of 2009, which ended with religious tension that’s spilling over into the New Year. All over what to call God. The dispute over “Allah” dates back to the 1980s. But last year, it was just one event in a string […]
Achievable resolutions
By Yasmin Masidi(Pic by Elvinstar / Dreamstime) HERE we are, just past the cusp of 2010, when parts of the world that observe 1 Jan list New Year hopes both fanciful and pragmatic. It’s always a useful exercise to do both, and to think about just why it is that one writes off a wish as “unrealistic”. […]
The new social contract
By Chan Kheng HoeMALAYSIANS are constantly reminded of our social contract. As the story goes, some time before 1957, founding leaders from three communities (only three, no others) signed up to this arrangement on how we ought to live together in this land previously known as Tanah Melayu. The terms of the arrangement were simple enough: Malays get […]
New Year resolutions for Malaysia
By The Nut Graph team(Corrected at 1:30pm, 19 Jan 2010) DO you remember where you were at midnight 10 years ago when we ushered in the new millennium? Remember the Y2K virus scare? Or the millennium party on the Subang Airport runway? Remember when then Datuk Seri (now Tun) Dr Mahathir Mohamad was still prime minister of Malaysia? Can […]
Panggilan misteri daripada polis
By Fahmi FadzilTidak pernah dan tidak akan muncul di kedai buku berdekatan LEBIH sebulan sudah berlalu sejak kejadian percubaan rasuah di Balai Polis Tun HS Lee yang saya ceritakan dahulu. Kini, saya cuba memberanikan diri untuk melaporkan kejadian tersebut kepada Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM), tapi hajat masih belum tercapai sebab sibuk. Tetapi semasa menunggu sampai sempat […]
BTN’s stolen Malaysians
By Shanon ShahI NEVER attended a Biro Tata Negara (BTN) programme. But I, too, sat in a darkened room while the facilitator taught the song Warisan, which ended with the line Melayu kan gagah di Nusantara and some participants crying. I, too, was made to carry an egg and then reprimanded for letting a mischievous trainer defile […]
