ARCHIVES 2008

(NST) Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has taken an English daily to task today for articles entitled ‘Rift in Pakatan’ and ‘Kapar MP free to go, says Khalid’.

(NST) The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is working with the police to trace the people behind a blog said to have insulted Prophet Muhammad.

(NST) The Kapar member of parliament should resign as MP and wait another five years before contesting, DAP chairman Karpal Singh said yesterday.

“Clear the air.” So says Samy Vellu to Anwar Ibrahim, about the latter’s stand on the hudud issue. Short of doing so, the opposition would supposedly ‘risk massive protest, especially from the Indian community.’

Letters
by R. Ganesh

I was utterly shocked when I read today’s NST dated 2008/12/27, article entitled “ACA officers feel ‘demoralised’ over new salary scale”. In the article, it was stated that Grade 29 officers would be offered a basic salary of RM1,482.85 and RM3,246.48 when they reached the top of the scale. “The maximum year between the basic salary and top of the scale is 22 years while the yearly increase is only RM80.17.”

This division is a classic case of divide and rule. It was applied by the colonial administrators of the 19th- and 20th-century Malaya in order to keep the locals easier to manage. Barisan Nasional with its racial-based political parties continued to practise the same policy to much success until recently. Now, here we are witnessing yet another group trying to do the same thing all over again.

Hafiz Noor Shams, The Malaysian Insider