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In 1985, I bought a house from SPPK Sdn Bhd located at Lot PT16589, mukim of Damansara, district of Petaling Jaya. At that time, we had sought the views of a valuation company which undertook the valuation of the land, and reviewed the surrounding properties and values. They also attached an overview map which showed […]

Why do ministers not stop to think before they speak? I am glad that the health minister has resolved that he will forgo his perk with the personalised number plate; since they “goofed” in a simple and fairly well-established process of bidding. In fact, I would add that the Road Transport Department (RTD) director-general must […]

I refer to R Nadeswaran\’s column in theSun of June 18, 2012, and respond to the statement by the convicted former MB of Selangor. Mohd Khir Toyo stated in a meeting with theSun journalist that \”PKNS is a private company,\” implying that PKNS was free to do anything its directors deemed fit and proper! Nothing is further from the […]

I am no lawyer, even though if I had a real choice I would have pursued law studies. Still, my interest in legal issues centre on good versus poor governance related to public space morality. Last week, a High Court judge allowed Berjaya Books to challenge the Jawi raid on its Mid-Valley outlet and seizure of copies […]

I disagree that you go public with your personal views and tirade about the DAP. I did not especially like the assertions you made about the DAP in The Star recently. In any divorce, both sides have faults; and going public with your side is ugly and unbecoming of any mature person! You made a free choice […]

I am a proud former Administrative and Diplomatic Service (PTD) officer. I thoroughly enjoyed my service as a PTD officer when in the public services. In our day we were taught to assume the role and responsibility of policy advisers to the minister to whom we were fully accountable to. Therefore, during our time, when […]

This column is designed to spark a dialogue on a serious issue requiring all our hearts and minds to appreciate and understand the phenomenon. My question is: Why is Suspect A not a terrorist? Why is he not the same as and equivalent to the 9/11 murderers and terrorists? Why is it we are at […]

The word ‘idiocrat’ is an important one to describe much of the ‘idiocracy’ that we see in the world today.  The root words are, of course, ‘idiot’ and ‘bureaucrat’. I have been using this word ever since I realised that the popular negative idea of a bureaucratic person is one who stalls or delays due process, and […]

In a previous column I tried to ‘tickle’ a dialogue on why one could not consider Suspect A in the Aurora, Colorado killings a terrorist. Frankly, I think most people may not have thought through this issue enough to have a strong view or opinion.   When at Intan, our colleague Ahmad Bakri Shabdin conducted his ‘Train […]

Was it the “greatest show on the earth?” Or is that the wrong question? How does any nation or any organisation evaluate large organisational goals and objectives, with some degree of objectivity and professionalism? But was this not the greatest performance in Olympic history? How does one professionally evaluate such large systems performance? Is that […]