The undersubscription of the RM10 billion government-backed Amanah Saham 1Malaysia unit trust fund is likely due to the sheer volume of units available and wariness among some investors, according to analysts.
Is Utusan Melayu a threat to the advancement of the Malays? Is it still a popular tabloid that now uses threatening means to maintain readership? Or is it merely a continuation of a cultural transmission of fear and trembling, superstition and sensationalism, to get modern Malays to do shadowboxing/shadowpuppet play with bogeymen and bogeymen created from an old script of Ketuanan Melayu?
It would seem that a reasoned analysis of Malaysia cannot be made without some comparison with Singapore. Like it or not, Singapore’s history and future are very much linked with those of Malaysia. So while the title of this write-up is chosen as The Dumbing Down of Malaysia, it could just as well be The Idealisation of Singapore.
Sometime ago I wrote this piece below which I think is relevant to as a response to Dr. Ridhuan Tee Abdullah's insistence that the "Malay-Muslim" group has a natural dominance over others.
British duplicity and collusion of the Malay elite contributed to keeping the various communities apart and made the struggle for a united nation state post-Malayan Union a distant dream.
The running joke going the round in Sabah and Sarawak for decades has been that you hear about these two East Malaysian states only during the daily weather report following prime time news on TV.
Anwar had to explain what he did six years before that, over a period of 90 days. And though it was not Anwar’s task to prove where he was but the prosecution’s task to do so, Anwar still managed to provide an alibi that covered all those days.
The DAP leadership has responded with scathing remarks against Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar who said calls for a halt into an investigation of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was tantamount to "intimidation" of the police force.
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