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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian - On the streets where they sleep
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian - On the streets where they sleep. Thursday, April 16th, 2009 04:05:00. IT started to drizzle as I headed back to my hotel down the wide riverside walk along one of Phnom Penh’s more well trod streets. Cambodia’s famed Foreign Correspondents’ Club sits elegantly along this road. But the street kids who saw me rushing past on the opposite and rain-drenched side of the boulevard were unstoppable. It was a feeding frenzy that broke the ...
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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian - Edge of my seat, on the street
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian - Edge of my seat, on the street. Thursday, May 28th, 2009 02:18:00. THERE is endless drama on the streets, but it's not always worthy of television or serious journalistic reportage. Though I must admit I have witnessed a few cops-and-robber type scenarios myself, even in sedate PJ. On a few occasions I have spoken out; once when a young woman dropped her drink can on the LRT train floor with a loud bang. She starred briefly at ...
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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian - How I learnt to love KL
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian - How I learnt to love KL. Thursday, May 7th, 2009 06:43:00. Konkrit Jungle — by Liew Kung Yu. I took many notes on encounters and of objects from the streets that were still unfamiliar to me. Coming from 14 years in the ultra-efficient tropical citystate of Singapore, the adjustment process required me to unlearn as much as learn many habits. I shed some with delight and embraced others reluctantly. Then came the Asian financial cri...
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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian - Princess Villa’s resident evil
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian - Princess Villa’s resident evil. Thursday, May 14th, 2009 02:49:00. ONE of my many duties at this paper is writing wry comments on news reports on a daily basis. Before I was directed to the Bernama newswire service, I used to trawl the net for the bizarre and the banal in foreign lands. Now with the Bernama newsfeeds, I am up to my chin with raw material for the Third Eye column. These so-called enclaves, one named Princess Villa, ...
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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian -Redeeming the past
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian -Redeeming the past. Thursday, May 21st, 2009 17:51:00. TWENTY-TWO years ago today, the government of Singapore began what it called Operation Spectrum. The name was apt as the security operation targeted a spectrum of social and cultural activists. The authoritarian States of Southeast Asia have rarely apologised for trampling on civil liberties or for turning the rule of law on its head. In the aftermath of 9/11, the positions ...
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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian - Roadblocks to peace
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian - Roadblocks to peace. Thursday, April 30th, 2009 07:59:00. CHECKPOINTS and roadblocks are a notorious fact of life in many conflict zones. In post-war history, one checkpoint even achieved the status of an icon. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol, not only of a divided Berlin, but also of the world torn apart by the ideological and geo-political struggles of the Cold War. I faintly remember the roadblocks of my Malaysian childhood.
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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian - Which cosmos are you from?
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian - Which cosmos are you from? Thursday, June 11th, 2009 02:32:00. BY all accounts, the city of Kuala Lumpur hovers in the region of being 150 years old. Not as old as some cities in the region or even the peninsula. In fact, the secondary school I attended in Singapore is older. But old isn't always gold and I know the new-ness of KL is well worth celebrating. But not everyone is happy about that. Some would like to demonise the v...
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The Pedestrian: June 2009
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian -Foreign affairs is everybody’s business. Thursday, June 18th, 2009 02:18:00. What was clear was that as a teen, I was beginning to develop an adult appetite in foreign affairs. Through my interest in foreign affairs, I could develop ideological and intellectual positions and, more importantly, participate in the passions too far away to ever savour first hand. Taking a position meant I could fix my emotional investments as I vie...
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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian -Foreign affairs is everybody’s business
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian -Foreign affairs is everybody’s business. Thursday, June 18th, 2009 02:18:00. What was clear was that as a teen, I was beginning to develop an adult appetite in foreign affairs. Through my interest in foreign affairs, I could develop ideological and intellectual positions and, more importantly, participate in the passions too far away to ever savour first hand. Taking a position meant I could fix my emotional investments as I vie...
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The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian - Strolling with the professor
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My column in Malay Mail and more. Monday, June 22, 2009. The Pedestrian - Strolling with the professor. Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 03:13:00. OCCASIONALLY, I coerce a ride from a friend with a car. And when I last did so it was with good reason. I had to a pick up a well-known academician from his hotel in downtown Bukit Bintang and get him to Central Market. It’s not a long walk from the hotel but the pavement isn’t good enough. It’s bad for walking and even worse for having a conversation. As a student ...
