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Wide Angle: Singapore-Malaysia Ties: When Words Get In The Way

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Singapore-Malaysia Ties: When Words Get In The Way. First published in Singapore's. Straits Times on 4 November 2005. MALAYSIANS who find Singapore largely congenial and who have settled here - I'm talking about myself, yes, but also half a dozen others whose names I'd happily reveal if subpoenaed - find the whole subject of Singapore-Malaysia relations enormously tiresome when it comes up, say, at dinner parties. My usual response is subtle. Simply put, the problem is that...

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Wide Angle: Your Transition Questions Answered!

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Sunday, April 5, 2009. Your Transition Questions Answered! WIDE ANGLE – Huzir Sulaiman. This piece was supposed to appear in the Sunday Star on 5 April 2009 but was spiked by the editors.]. Your transition questions answered! Following yet another momentous week in Malaysian politics, Wide Angle responds to readers’ queries. Dear Wide Angle,. And now I’m out of a job. What did I do wrong? Remember: you can take the boy out of the Fourth Floor, but you can’t take the Fourth Floor out of the boy. I am a re...

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Wide Angle: Taking Stock of Brand Malaysia

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008. Taking Stock of Brand Malaysia. At the end of four months in the United States as a Yale World Fellow, our columnist reflects on how Malaysia is perceived by policymakers around the world. [First published in. The Sunday Star on 13 January 2008]. T; and the World Bank’s senior economist. We also met US army officers teaching at West Point; members of the Council on Foreign Relations; a delegation of prominent Indian parliamentarians; technocrats of the old Clinton Administration...

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Wide Angle: Marx Brother

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Sunday, September 28, 2008. The Sunday Star on 17 December 2006.]. IF you want to extract the innermost secrets of an Australian, first ask them what they think of John Howard. The resulting outpouring of vitriol (or, alternatively, provincial gurgles of praise) will last between 15 and 25 cathartic minutes, and will leave them in a passive, unresistingly limp state. You can then ask them anything you like, and they will tell you. This was quite exciting. Growing up in the post-Emergency climate, I&#...

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Wide Angle: A View of the Interior

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Thursday, September 25, 2008. A View of the Interior. Does the décor of our homes say anything about us? Our columnist explores how we construct our identities – and those of others. [First published in the Sunday Star on 10 February 2008]. A FEW years ago, the artist Simryn Gill, who grew up in Port Dickson, went up and down Peninsular Malaysia for eight weeks knocking on strangers’ doors and asking if she could photograph their living rooms. Were these mute photographs a challenge? I remember reading a...

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Wide Angle: April 2009

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Sunday, April 5, 2009. Your Transition Questions Answered! WIDE ANGLE – Huzir Sulaiman. This piece was supposed to appear in the Sunday Star on 5 April 2009 but was spiked by the editors.]. Your transition questions answered! Following yet another momentous week in Malaysian politics, Wide Angle responds to readers’ queries. Dear Wide Angle,. And now I’m out of a job. What did I do wrong? Remember: you can take the boy out of the Fourth Floor, but you can’t take the Fourth Floor out of the boy. I am a re...

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Wide Angle: September 2008

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Sunday, September 28, 2008. The Sunday Star on 17 December 2006.]. IF you want to extract the innermost secrets of an Australian, first ask them what they think of John Howard. The resulting outpouring of vitriol (or, alternatively, provincial gurgles of praise) will last between 15 and 25 cathartic minutes, and will leave them in a passive, unresistingly limp state. You can then ask them anything you like, and they will tell you. This was quite exciting. Growing up in the post-Emergency climate, I&#...

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Wide Angle: The Dialect Debate

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008. By any measure, Singapore’s ‘Speak Mandarin Campaign’ has succeeded. But, at what cost to the nation’s heritage? The Sunday Star on 5 October 2008]. MY mother-in-law is a great natural communicator. With her gregariousness and curiosity, she is capable of striking up a conversation with anyone, anywhere, and would be baffled to learn that there are specialist books that teach you how to do that. 8220;How do you talk to people? You just talk to them! What’s so difficult? My fathe...

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Wide Angle: October 2008

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008. Taking Stock of Brand Malaysia. At the end of four months in the United States as a Yale World Fellow, our columnist reflects on how Malaysia is perceived by policymakers around the world. [First published in. The Sunday Star on 13 January 2008]. T; and the World Bank’s senior economist. We also met US army officers teaching at West Point; members of the Council on Foreign Relations; a delegation of prominent Indian parliamentarians; technocrats of the old Clinton Administration...