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Scientia Est Potestas: PAN V 2008 Part 3
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Jing's thoughts and musings. Wednesday, 9 April 2008. PAN V 2008 Part 3. The last session of the day was entitled the Third Way: Making student voices heard. By Wan Mohd Firdaus. Who was UKEC chairman from 2005 to 2007. He starts off by saying that students have been trained to comply and not taught to challenge the establishment. Back in Malaysia, student movements have forgotten their roots and the reasons they were even established in the first place from the 1940s to the 1960s. It is up to the studen...
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Scientia Est Potestas: PAN V 2008 Part 2
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Jing's thoughts and musings. Tuesday, 8 April 2008. PAN V 2008 Part 2. The second session was entitled National Leadership: the role of integrity in leadership and the qualities necessary to lead a nation. This session started off with Dato' Dr. Toh Kin Woon. Who is Gerakan Central Committee Member and Chairman of SEDAR. His speech, by far was the most structured one of all, so I think I will list them out in bullet points:. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi also promised that he would eradicate corru...
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Scientia Est Potestas: Hypocritical Inclinations
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Jing's thoughts and musings. Friday, 28 March 2008. Some of you might have read the report. Of Zaid Ibrahim saying that an apology to dismissed Supreme Court justices like Tun Salleh Abas during the 1988 Judicial Crisis was being considered by the government. In response, former Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad today issued a retort amid calls for him to apologise for his wrongdoings during the Malaysian constitutional crisis. Based on the report. The trial ended with Harun Hashim ruling that UMNO was a...
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Scientia Est Potestas: PAN V 2008 Part 4
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Jing's thoughts and musings. Saturday, 12 April 2008. PAN V 2008 Part 4. On the second day of PAN V, we started off with the third session, entitled Corporate Malaysia: "Where are we heading as a global player? From left to right: Dato' Johan Raslan, Tengku Zafrul and Ahmad Shahizam. For the first address, we had Dato' Johan Raslan. His introduction posed a question for us: Malaysia has an. Future, but is that good enough? Or could we achieve more? Have we worked with or against foreigners? He also says ...
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Scientia Est Potestas: On Close Proximity
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Jing's thoughts and musings. Friday, 4 April 2008. Based on the Star's report on the 3rd of April 2008. Proposal to prosecute non-Muslims for khalwat. You can read the report here. Based on a two-day seminar organised by the Islamic Institute of Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) and the Syariah Judiciary Department Malaysia, a few proposals were suggested, among which included to hold liable non-muslims for the offence of khalwat. Or close proximity with muslims. In a time where it is crucial for unity of th...
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Scientia Est Potestas: March 2008
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Jing's thoughts and musings. Friday, 28 March 2008. Some of you might have read the report. Of Zaid Ibrahim saying that an apology to dismissed Supreme Court justices like Tun Salleh Abas during the 1988 Judicial Crisis was being considered by the government. In response, former Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad today issued a retort amid calls for him to apologise for his wrongdoings during the Malaysian constitutional crisis. Based on the report. The trial ended with Harun Hashim ruling that UMNO was a...
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Scientia Est Potestas: PAN V 2008 Part 5
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Jing's thoughts and musings. Monday, 14 April 2008. PAN V 2008 Part 5. The last address of the session was given by Ahmad Shahizam Mohd Shariff, Director of the Managing Director's Office, Khazanah Nasional. He starts off by saying that the trade environment today was far different from the past, for example, when he was a student, the UK was struggling with low competitiveness compared to other EU countries, but today, it has reinvented itself to become more competitive and more dynamic. He also highlig...
