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The Langkawi International Dialogue (LID) is what is labelled a \” smart partnership \” between the Southern members of the United Nations. Under its aegis, the government also launched Malaysia\’s Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP), through which thousands of citizens from the developing world came to Malaysia to be trained in our many development institutions. Within the same […]

I think Minister of Home Affairs Hishammuddin Hussein should resign. He has failed miserably in \”managing the proper conduct of the Constitution and discarded reasonable rights of the citizens\”, even after the King made his intervention and publicly made his views known. The King is our Head of State. Allow me to state my reasons […]

The amnesty programme for illegal workers will happen beginning Aug 1, 2011. This column is a very personal appeal to a good and dear family friend with whom we have all lost all contact. Her husband entered this country as a legal worker, although he should have come as a spouse after they got married […]

There is a popular Malay phrase I grew up learning because I lived in Kedah, where there were miles of secluded roads without street lights and very often one could see frogs which were smashed flat and dried up after their time in the sun and their inner guts splashed out and had been eaten […]

I always believed paranoia was the sickness of weak and fearful people, or those who have just cause for abject fear. For example, after 9/11, the Americans were absolutely overcome with paranoia only because such an unfortunate incident was “not in their paradigm of possibilities; worse still, probabilities!” Therefore, I could tolerate, accept and appreciate […]

Those who know me personally also know that while I am proud of my Malayalee heritage, I will never agree that I am an Indian. I am a Malayalee Malaysian; not an Indian Malaysian! To me, Indian-ness is a nationality and not an ethnicity. That is the same reason and logic for Hannah Yeoh and […]

According to the dictionary, to proselytise is to induce someone to convert to one’s faith or to recruit someone to join one’s party, institution, or cause. Dr Hassan Ali, my ex-Intan colleague and state exco member for Islamic Matters and Malay Culture in Selangor, says he has proof that there were attempts to proselytise the […]

The nation is at a serious crossroads. We want to become world class but are often satisfied with being ‘kampung class.\’ What do I mean? I chanced upon an advertisement in the NST wherein Telekom Malaysia (TM) advertised the following message: \”Datuk Lee Chong Wei, runner-up of the 2011 Yonex BWF World Badminton championships: You will always […]

Ahmad Talib is a mainstream media personality having served as the former managing editor of the NST. I first met him when I gave a lecture at the Ministry of Information about the National IT Agenda. Ahmad Talib wrote a recent column where he talked about a conversation he had with Proton CEO Syed Zainal […]

When time, space, and political maturity combine within lunar time and modern calculations of solar time, at a selected period within man’s chronological time, that opportunity may overlap with kairos time, or what can also be called God’s timing. This modern calendar year of 2011 appears to be one of those opportunistic times within the […]