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Have you heard about the Sabahan district officer who was detained under the ISA for 59 days? His name is Hassnar Ebrahim, and if you have not heard his testimony, please view KiniTV\’ s \’Hassnar: IC giveaways since 1981\’ and decide for yourself who is telling the truth about the infamous ICs case and cover-up in Sabah. Malaysians […]

Introduction Legal compliance of rules and regulations is a major Malaysian problem in many areas and arenas of life. There are always two sides to this problem. One is our close-one-eye culture; the other is a conscious and intentional effort by rule-breakers to avoid compliance; for reasons beyond public knowledge. Both of these form an […]

It is interesting that these past weeks The Star , Loyar Burok and the Election Commission have expressed their views on caretaker governance. The NGO Aliran also raised the same issue before the 1999 general election. The Election Commission most recently spoke on caretaker governance, but not to answer the issues raised. The primary concern raised in […]

I joined the public service in 1972 and had the privilege of working in a department uniquely created under the development administration model advocated by Esman and Montgomery, the two US Ford Foundation consultants who advised the then prime minister about the nature of development and change for modern Malaysia. In 1975 I moved to […]

I asked a niece, “Do you know the candidates who are standing in your constituency?” The real reason for my question was to know if they, the younger generation, was aware that in most locations, every citizen registered to vote had to make two choices? The only exceptions are in the Federal Territories and the […]

We are coming into our 13th general election. I have voted every time since I was 21, unless I was not in the country. This time we have a large number of younger Malaysians who are voting. Except for my youngest, all my other five children (including one spouse; the other is an American) are […]

Recently, broadcaster CNN interviewed Mira Nair about the film she produced for the Venice Film Festival based on the book called The Reluctant Fundamentalist ; a novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid published in 2007. CNN wrote: “The timing couldn\’t be any better, or worse, for Mira Nair\’s film of Mohsin Hamid\’s novel, a sympathetic portrait of […]

In the last two general elections, I voted for Pakatan Rakyat. In fact, I campaigned privately and publicly with and for Pakatan. Nonetheless, I am not a member of any party and do not find a need to join one. Having worked hard to influence and support the realisation of this two-party democracy in Malaysia […]

Everyone now knows that only 47 percent of Malaysians elected the current federal government. That is how the rules of the game are written within the context of ‘Kampung Malaysia;’ our variety of the colonial nation-state Westminster parliamentary system of governance. Therein also, a race is defined by religion premised upon any ethnicity, but wherein […]

Truth and reconciliation about things Malaysian must start at the beginning, i.e. at creation, and then move towards the present. Otherwise, such words and phrases are pointless verbiage and meaningless chatter. It does not make it right just because a 56-year-old government says so. Let us start with the facts: 6. In 1963, the Federation […]