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de minimis: Dr M wants PM powers to be reduced
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Monday, May 18, 2015. Dr M wants PM powers to be reduced. I read the the Malaysian Insider's reported expiation by Dr M. With a deep and resigned *sigh*. The man now says that the Prime Minister's position contains "too much power". Preventive detention under the edifice of ISA was used with degrees of controversy by Tun Razak's successors. This lesson is never learnt. Of course, the man knew where the boundaries were. I have been wondering whether this is some form of karma. In Dr M's odyssey. This ador...
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de minimis: Malaysian Education and Vernacular Schools - A Story of the Elephant and the Blind Men
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Monday, October 6, 2014. Malaysian Education and Vernacular Schools - A Story of the Elephant and the Blind Men. As usual, the recent eruption of viewpoints on the matter of vernacular schools in Malaysia is being reduced to polemic. One group is calling for its abolition or something stupid along those lines. Without the benefit of statistics (because I'm too lazy to look it up) I believe that up to the mid-1980s, enrollment in mainstream schools was still relatively high. I believe it had something to ...
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de minimis: Selangor: The Sultan and the Constitution
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Sunday, August 31, 2014. Selangor: The Sultan and the Constitution. The constitutional matters in Selangor surrounding the matter of the position of the Mentri Besar is, in the first instance, an unnecessary event that had arisen purely due to a factional matter within a political party. Sentience in third parties and among plebeians is a very annoying phenomenon for people in power. Sentience forces people in power to explain things that are better kept in their sick and twisted minds. In the present ma...
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de minimis: Ku Li and echoes of Adlai Stevenson
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Friday, July 24, 2009. Ku Li and echoes of Adlai Stevenson. I feel compelled to delve a little deeper into the motivations of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah in the context of the current swirl of political and institutional turmoil in Malaysia. The political turmoil is obvious to all. Less so, is the institutional turmoil. Who will guard the guards themselves? Where the Executive branch of government would be audited by the Legislature and, if there is any legal action, by the Judiciary. The issue of institutio...
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de minimis: A common destiny for Malaysians
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A common destiny for Malaysians. This month saw the passing of Malcolm Fraser of Australia and Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore. Both men were giants in their time. Events such as these must, of necessity, compel thinking Malaysians to reflect on the changing fortunes of countries like Australia and Singapore and compare them with our own changing fortunes in Malaysia. Did Toh Chin Chye ever rue his casting vote? But, as usual, I digress. One of the common refrain of Lee Kuan Yew's duri...
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de minimis: Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
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Monday, May 11, 2015. I wrote a blog post on 24 July 2009 that earned me a private chat with Tengku Razaleigh. In recent weeks events have taken a turn that many Malaysians hope, will lead to a near unanimous cry of support for Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to restore Malaysia to its roots and ideals as envisioned by our Founding Fathers at the time of Merdeka. I set out below the blog post which was originally posted here. Less so, is the institutional turmoil. Who will guard the guards themselves? Tunku Abdu...
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To Resist is To Win | Towards A New Malaysia
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Towards A New Malaysia. Ideas and Thoughts for Nation-Building. To Resist is To Win. Posted on April 28, 2015. Today is the 3rd of anniversary of Bersih 3.0 and the the Election Commission is still as dirty as ever. They still went ahead and conducted one of the most dirty General Election ever in 2013 but don’t take my word for it. The Election Integrity Project in a a global survey rated Malaysia near the bottom, 66th out of 73 elections surveyed between July 2012 and December 2013. Three years on, we ...
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大马人究竟做错了什么? | Towards A New Malaysia
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Towards A New Malaysia. Ideas and Thoughts for Nation-Building. Posted on May 10, 2015. 前净选盟主席那督安美嘉最近在 东盟人民论坛 上问了一个很重要的问题，那就是 大马人究竟做错了什么 我么究竟犯了何等滔天大罪而受到当今国阵政府如此的对待。 官老爷们也不问问自己，五十年的 苦心经营 ，竟然还沦落到四百万户人家很三百万个单身贵族需要到 一马援助金 ，以简单的算法来算，大马大约有两千三百万人需要援助金，即人口的百分之七十六。 Chinese version of “ What Have We Done To Deserve This? 8220; Translation done by my friend HYee. Larr; To Resist is To Win. Think Malaysians, think! One Response “大马人究竟做错了什么? May 10, 2015. HENCE INDOLENCE RULES REGARDLESS CONDEMNABLY. How Pakatan Hara...
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What Have Bersih Rallies Achieved So Far? | Towards A New Malaysia
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Towards A New Malaysia. Ideas and Thoughts for Nation-Building. What Have Bersih Rallies Achieved So Far? Posted on August 5, 2015. We’ve been sending the government messages for years, and it’s had little to no effect. I was there for Bersih 2.0 and 3.0, and whilst it felt good to stick it to the man for a day, none of the demands for electoral reform were met and they achieved no real change – instead things have gotten even worse. But Bersih 2.0 and the rallies it has organised have two targeted a...
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Towards A New Malaysia | Ideas & Thoughts for Nation-Building | Page 2
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Towards A New Malaysia. Ideas and Thoughts for Nation-Building. Newer posts →. Think Again Malaysians, Think! March 17, 2016. Why would Tun Mahathir, the man who devoted his life to make UMNO what it is today, who is in his 90s and is the longest-serving PM of Malaysia, want to launch the Citizen’s Declaration with opposition and civil society leaders demanding Najib’s removal and implement institutional reforms? Why would Najib need to […]. The Barisan Nasional’s Votebanks. March 16, 2016. March 14, 2016.
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