In battling for Malay supremacy, are its champions defending a concept whose origins are blurred in the annals of history? As for those pushing for a Malaysian identity, did the country only begin post-Merdeka?
Another attempt to rouse countries to finish the main elements of a deal at the World Trade Organisation may elicit cries of déjà vu. But this time the deadlines may be for real.
Some pin the behaviour in the Harbhajan-Sreesanth Slapgate to big bucks, which turned young men arrogant and irresponsible. Nevertheless, the antics of IPL cricket players have helped to add more appeal to the games.
The extent of foreign news coverage by Western mainstream media is usually a reliable guide to Western official priorities abroad, as well as of attention deficits over issues like Iran’s growing influence in South, Central and West Asia.
The world is too dangerous, therefore women should be kept at home to be safe. Such logic smacks of a patriarchal attitude that is so prevalent in our society; that women cannot fend for themselves and need to be ‘protected’.
They are children from China, embraced by American families. Almost one-fifth live in New York. Here, a young woman shares her journey for the love of a child.
The judiciary system may be well in place to tackle counterfeit goods, but the public and corporate awareness on intellectual property rights is a different story.
With severe conflict, lack of unity and lack of loyalty to the monarchy, Thailand may once again reach a point where army intervention becomes inevitable.
As the leader of Pakatan Rakyat, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been described as ‘Prime Minister-in-waiting’, but does he really have the numbers to form the government or is he just playing mind games?
This is the last chance for this government to get it right
or else the usual 10-year electoral cycle of ‘rise and fall’
in the performance of the ruling party will be broken. It
will be the fall and fall.
A continuous public relations and advertising campaign needs to be adopted to market Malaysia as an attractive destination for investment or as a second or holiday home.
There is a strong possibility that Australia will consider an employer push for creating a ‘guest worker’ scheme to bring in from overseas unskilled workers in view of the acute labour shortage.
A FEW years ago, when I was at a conference in Langkawi, my co-workers and I were bored of the formal dinners that acted as the stodgy end to every working day. One night, we hopped into a car and drove around the island, and somewhere near Pantai Cenang we came across a place called The Eagle’s Nest. Out in the middle of practically nowhere was a restaurant that served some of the best steaks I have ever eaten.
Cutting up a cheating man’s clothes or bashing up his car no longer cuts it in the revenge stakes as a more e-vil form of retribution takes over in cyberspace.
In the concluding instalment of the three-part series, Ruling the Rulers, our columnist looks at the outcome of Dr Mahathir’s 1983 standoff with the Sultans.
Ya, the long, lanky African slave woman whose spirit ‘haunts’ our columnist, continues her tale of how she came to serve a family in Terengganu at the turn of the 20th century.
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