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All nine are Malay hereditary rulers with constitutionally defined role responsibility to preserve Malay culture and protect Islam; as they are heads of the religion in each of the nine states. While the constitution calls them Malays; they all have different ethnic backgrounds and origins from elsewhere. I am no historian and therefore will not […]

The new Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) chief, a well-accomplished foreign affairs officer and previously our highest UN representative for Malaysia, said that “taking to the streets is not necessary”. His unsolicited advice took me by surprise, especially when Suhakam commissioners were observers in the last Bersih March. Where is this commissioner coming from? While he […]

In the Seven Habits series, the author’s central thesis is that we must grow or develop habits for growth and development in meaningful and significant ways. He argues that all human or organic systems must first grow from total dependence (and appreciate all its full meanings) to independence or human freedoms, and then, finally and […]

I have followed the US presidential elections campaign from both parties’ early stages and caucuses all the way now to the coming presidential elections in November 2016. I have been amused with American popular media, and most of their advocates, or ‘surrogates’, as they are called. They are simply dumb or simply not honest enough. […]

My very good friend, an MBA classmate and public service senior, argues that no politician is always straight and truthful. To him, every subject matter a politician speaks is only valid on the date of issue. In this season’s US presidential elections campaign; for the whole year of coverage, my friend has actually been proven […]

I am amused about the rise of the next newer global gunslinger called the president of the Philippines. He has therefore been labelled the ‘Trump of Asia’. But is force what we need in Asia? With a history of being ‘a fighter for a good cause’, he has now risen to be the Philippine Official […]

Who is media accountable and responsible to, other than their owners and the civil laws of a land? Are they not also responsible to search for truth and publish all such truths; but, only after they understand all dimensions of that truth matter? Do we really agree with any current or mainstream view that media […]

All Malaysians do have and carry multiple identities; in fact, most human beings do. Role theory is a perspective in sociology and in social psychology that considers most everyday activities to be the acting out of socially defined categories (eg, mother, manager, teacher, and citizen). Each role is a set of rights, duties, expectations, norms […]

All human beings, as created others, in the nature and image of God, have a human conscience which defines their actions and determines both their dignity and destiny for the here and now, and for eternity. The above personal faith reality interprets my assumptions about the nature of human nature. The range of answers for […]

If citizenship, either in a family or clan, or geography, or a nation-state, defines us; then our sense of patriotism or love for that family or group or community is assumed to be primary and always presumed to define one’s loyalty. That loyalty, I think, is primary and must become our public but also declared […]