Government
If there’s one hot topic of discussion during the coming Chinese New Year, it has to be the Mother of General Elections – the 2013 Malaysia General Election. This is perhaps the final time family members would sit together, cracking garlic-flavour groundnuts sipping Anglia Shandy or Carlsberg, and debate over who and which party to […]
... written on Feb 08 2013Two persons expressed their opinions against the present Malaysian federal government. One got suspended while the other was bullied. The one who got suspended was the chief economist of Bank Islam – Azrul Anwar Ahmad – after his presentation at the Regional Outlook Forum in Singapore, which amongst others stated that one of the most […]
... written on Jan 15 2013Tomorrow’s rally, known as #KL112 (referring to Kuala Lumpur Jan 12th), to be held at Merdeka Stadium from 2pm – 5pm, should be the mother of all rallies considering that it involves some heavyweight NGOs namely Bersih (for clean and fair election), Royalti (for petroleum royalty), Anti-Lynas (to prevent rare earth plant in Gebeng, Kuantan), […]
... written on Jan 12 2013UMNO General Assembly, which started two days was expected to be another round of opposition-bashing session (*yawn*). Considering this will be the last assembly before the 13th general election, the present federal government under the UMNO regime rule was expected to unleash all WMDs (weapon of mass destructions) under its arsenal since it would be […]
... written on Nov 30 2012Tax Justice Network estimated a mind-boggling of between USD $21 trillion to USD $32 trillion is sheltered (or rather hidden) in tax havens worldwide. While dirty money or money laundering scheme can be easily made legitimate, the same cannot be said about money plundered via corruption, especially by politicians. You can withdraw a million dollar, […]
... written on Nov 27 2012After Budget 2013, the next biggest entertainment everybody is waiting for is perhaps the annual Auditor-General’s Report, which was deliberately delayed by the Malaysian Government for obvious reason. First of all, the two weeks delay in releasing the highly-anticipated report was to prevent opposition from embarrassing Najib administration since the audit report will reveal tons […]
... written on Oct 07 2012There are good reasons why the opposition does not and should not reveal its shadow cabinet. It would be a suicidal mission to do so in a country like Malaysia whereby racial politics and race-based policies are part and parcel of present government which has been ruling since independence. The moment the shadow cabinet is […]
... written on Oct 02 2012The structure was erected 123 years ago in 1889 and at 320 meters tall (roughly the height of an 80-story building); it is the tallest structure in Paris. It received numerous controversy and criticism from sculptors, architects, painters and whatnot even before its construction. It was ridiculed as a piece of useless and monstrous structure. […]
... written on Aug 23 2012Slightly more than three months ago, I wrote an article about the reasons why you shouldn’t buy a car, at least for now. You can read it here. Basically consumers (yes, that’s you, dude) have been taken for a long ride since the introduction of former premier Mahathir’s pet project, Proton, not that it was […]
... written on Jul 24 2012Just like how Spain proved herself to be the best team in Euro 2012 final by beating Italy 4-0, yesterday’s Chua Soi Lek vs Lim Guan Eng debate 2.0 saw the same result – Guan Eng beats Soi Lek hands down 4-0. And just like how the Spanish finished Italian’s dream via magnificent four – […]
... written on Jul 09 2012
