ARCHIVES 2007

The lesson to be learned from all this is that Muslim governments need to address real economic problems with real economic and structural solutions rather than cut cards with the Devil and playing around with fire.

By Farish A Noor

How did a nation that was so full of bubbly confidence as encapsulated in its “Malaysia boleh!” spirit only a few years ago descend so fast and so far, and with so few of the elite class protesting?

 M Bakri Musa

Oleh Khairul Faizi Ahmad Kamil 

AHAD 30 Dis: Apabila keputusan Peperiksaan Menengah Rendah (PMR) yang diumumkan baru-baru ini menunjukkan peningkatan terhadap keputusan mata pelajaran Sains dan Matematik sekaligus seolah-olahnya menunjukkan bahawa tindakan kerajaan dalam perkara ini adalah tindakan yang berada di landasan yang betul, ada yang mula mempersoalkan terhadap dakwaan bahawa Bahasa Inggeris tidak sesuai dijadikan bahasa pengantar dalam mata pelajaran-mata pelajaran tersebut.

Oleh Faizah Izzani Zakaria

KUALA LUMPUR 30 Dis. – Timbalan Menteri Sumber Manusia, Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakar meminta pengambilan pekerja asing dihentikan buat sementara waktu sehingga satu dasar lebih terperinci diperkenalkan.

'This has nothing to do with religion'

Remove the people who are causing the problem, and put in the ones who are qualified to deal with it. Remove the unqualified, because they are misguiding society.

By : ANIZA DAMIS
New Straits Times

(The Sun): Gerakan has yet to decide on the fate of its Youth wing vice-chairman S. Paranjothy as the party's disciplinary committee is still waiting for an official directive from the central working committee (CWC).

(The Sun): Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, who will be leading a 100-strong delegation  to attend the fifth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD), the annual meeting of the Indian diaspora, next week, is expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and several Indian chief ministers on the sidelines of the meeting to explain the real situation concerning the Indian community in Malaysia.

(The Star) - KUALA TERENGGANU: It was a tense situation at the Sessions Court here when a judge denied bail for two men charged with unlawful assembly and voluntarily causing hurt to a policeman during the Sept 8 Batu Buruk riot. 

Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam has urged members to discuss party matters behind closed doors to safeguard the party’s dignity. 

(The Star) - The assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shortly after she held a political rally showed why Malaysia was against street demonstrations, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.