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PAS has crossed the limit

I am sorry but PAS, at their recent General Assembly, has crossed the limits of human decency and civility in matters of national multi-ethnic governance. Malaysia is a Constitutional Monarchy, with the King and Rulers, as guardians of the Muslim and other religions. On all matters of religion, the rule of law is therefore our […]

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Legacy of a father\’s love

As we celebrated Father\’s Day, how do we know that our father loves and cares for us? Well, within the older Merdeka generation, our parents demonstrated love for us almost entirely by providing for us. And our mothers loved us by caring for all our needs at home, in school and beyond, while father was […]

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Public land theft: The Subang Ria Park

Under our current system of Local Governance, there are many weaknesses that allow the \”official theft of public spaces agreed and planned for as green lungs, often by devious means, but always with the collaboration of the Local Authorities.\” The Subang Ria Green lung is only the latest case-story. Thirty years ago, after the government […]

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Truth in land matters

Something is fundamentally and foundationally wrong in this nation when the descendents who have lived in a place for more than 200 years have no right to their ‘ancestral home grounds\’ and are chased away under the force of the local government officials and the police based on a whimsical Federal Court ruling. Surely there […]

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1Malaysia for all, all for 1Malaysia

This column is about a complex idea about spiritual ontology. To most people combining the two ideas of \’ontos\’ and \’logos\’ is already complex enough, what more with making all of this spiritual, or \’of the spirit\’. In scriptures, matters of the spirit are often referred to as matters of the heart. The technical term […]

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Corruption of truth in development

Most of the media reported that the deputy premier made the Manek Urai constituents a public offer just before the by-election last week: If they vote for the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate, they will get a bridge and a mosque. My question to the now-discredited Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and all Malaysians interested in good governance […]

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Truth be told: Not another royal omission!

What were the last two royal commissions called? One was about Police Misconduct and another about the VK Lingam Tapes. What has been the outcome of these commissions and their reports which were presented to the King, after being conducted in the name of royalty? Can we be honest and truthful? Would I be wrong […]

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Can we police morality?

I once wrote a column asking the rhetorical question: \”Is the air we breathe green in colour?\” Today, I would like to ask the same question, but in a slightly different way. Today I ask, can we police morality? In the book of John Chapter 8, it is recorded that once the \”priests, teachers of […]

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Selangor\’s trip to Abilene

I have written previously about the ‘trip to Abilene’. After Perak, the Pakatan Rakyat governments of Selangor and Penang now seem ripe for such a trip. To review, what is this ‘trip’? According to Jerry Harvey, one of my teachers, this happens when any group of people unintentionally goes on a journey which they all know that […]

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Poor form MACC, poor form indeed

I followed with interest the most recent blow-up over the MACC \”spying on their commissioners!\” Anti-corruption has been a theme I have been harping on for years, although mostly in private circles. My first article on the topic was written for Asian Beacon about 40 years ago. Therefore, I was very encouraged to hear a former MP, […]

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