When we became independent, and upgraded to become a nation-state of three post-independence colonial partners, and after Singapore voluntarily left, we were a well-known member of the global community of united nation states of various colours, shapes, and sizes. We were a proud Commonwealth nation. Especially on the core issue of Black South Africa, we […]
The current Pope of the former Roman but now global Catholic Church has visited the USA for the first time ever. I am not a Catholic with a capital C; only one by admission of the Nicene Creed of all, if not most, Christians. In a previous column , I began an argument about what constitutes a […]
US President Barack Obama said, “The US is the only developed nation in the world which has so much gun violence.” Three times more citizens in the US are killed through gun violence than through military wars. Frankly, I am genuinely surprised and confused about how the gun is such a celebrated tool in the […]
I am not a journalist; I am simply a writer of columns for a selected media and medium. My focus is topics related to good governance, transparency, and lack of systemic integrity in Malaysia. Essentially I am an organisational theorist with a focus on organisation development for excellence. My partner and I do consult in […]
In the judicial system worldwide, especially in criminal proceedings, we have to swear to “tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. My column this week will focus on speaking and telling of this “truth and nothing but the truth”. How does one decide if one is living in a truthful culture […]
Years after the Iraq War declared by western forces to get rid of Saddam Hussein and the Axis of Evil, the former prime minister of the UK, Tony Blair, has publicly stated that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction or WMD; and therefore, the war was based on a clear foundation of untruths. Shame […]
Last week, Abdul Gani Patail, our former attorney-general (AG), attended his first public meeting since his official retirement at a Bar Council event on the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma). I forwarded a question to be tabled to AG or Abdul Gani, but the Bar Council thought it not appropriate. I therefore ask […]
What is life worth? One innocent life! To date we record 128 died from the attacks in Paris. Do these 128 even know why they lived, and then died? Of course they knew that one day they would die, but did any of them expect it would be then; so soon because of a group […]
Amanah communications director Khalid Samad recently said that PAS is increasingly becoming irrelevant in Malaysia. He anticipates that PAS will soon lose Kelantan; their stronghold all these years. “I believe that Islamic politics is relevant for all states in Malaysia, but not in the way PAS is approaching it today,” he said in an interview […]
What is dignity of human life? Do we enjoy such a dignity in our workplaces, or lived places? Or is one’s dignity even recognised or appreciated by every other in your life? I have a new friend who does voluntary work with migrants in Malaysia. He says that their “dignity is denied from the moment […]
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