The new year is witnessing an escalation of a Western economic blockade against Iran while it has been claimed that Israel is preparing for a military strike. Can a war against Iran be avoided?
WHEN I was growing up, we would receive ang pows with coins. The 40-sen ang pows were fairly common although I had a grand aunt who would give us 4-sen ang pows.
While knowledge is depicted in the Quran as a vital and determining factor of man’s superiority, the craving in him for everlasting and absolute power is portrayed as being hazardous to his well-being.
The UKEC’s Projek Amanat Negara (PAN) shows how much young people can achieve without the straitjacket of thought control. Open debate events like the PAN will do Malaysia a world of good.
Procedural safeguards during disciplinary proceedings are a necessary
part of the public servant’s right to due process. However, they do
delay and often defeat necessary measures to weed out corrupt,
inefficient or non-committed employees.
If ever there’s a phobia one can promote, it should be a true loathing of graft in any form, regardless of it being the petty everyday variety or the major million dollar ones.
It is going to be a tempestuous year with more developments in the social media scene, and a digital war may erupt between Internet users, companies and governments.
BY ALL accounts, 2011 was a particularly eventful year. Leadership was tested and found wanting, governments fell, economies were shaken, natural calamities wrought huge destruction and uncertainty stalked the planet like never before.
Eight months after the general election, the opposition parties are facing troubling times. Internal squabbling followed by mass resignations hit one party while several representatives are jostling for the 2016 battlegrounds.
Every year, the eve and fifth day of the Chinese New Year is a nightmare for people in Beijing who want to sleep, no thanks to the din made by the fireworks and crackers that drag on the whole day till the wee hours of the morning.
Although many Malaysians abroad do not see the need to contact the embassy unless they are in trouble, the Foreign Ministry’s consular service is always ready to help.
DATUK Seri Shahrizat Jalil returns from Mecca tomorrow to face some very tough questions regarding her political future and the NFC typhoon that is threatening to blow her family off their feet.
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