ARCHIVES 2011

Are we committed to making sure that the law-makers do not abuse the trust we place in them? Or are we simply bystanders who hope the problem will go away?

We are responsible for our current problems. We allowed our politicians to get away with breaking the law. Were we committed to making sure that the law-makers did not abuse the trust we placed in them? Or were we simply bystanders who hoped the problem would go away?

Mariam Mokhtar, Free Malaysia Today

A powerful driving force behind the talent outflow is a waning education system that has fallen short of meeting youthful aspirations.

“Students abroad said that it was an automatic understanding that they would study overseas and many headed for Singapore where they could challenge themselves intellectually and make it big. New parents also believe that their children’s global competitiveness would be better groomed through an education outside of Malaysia and many have made plans to migrate before their children reach school age,” Koh added.

Stephanie Sta Maria, Free Malaysia Today

As we usher in the New Year, we cannot forgot the many memorable events in the old year that left indelible marks on the country's history.

(Free Malaysia Today) - With so many newsworthy events and developments happening in the closing weeks of 2011, it is easy to forget that the whole year has been one that would leave any news organisation breathless.

The breeze of change which stirred through Sabah in 2011 saw ripples of revelations that threatens the 18-year-old Barisan Nasional regime.

(Free Malaysia Today) - 2011 will in all probability go down in Sabah’s history as the year of ‘The Awakening’. This is the year when the first hints of a breeze of change began to stir through Sabah, also known as the ‘land below the wind’.

(Bloomberg) - Malaysia’s ringgit was poised for its first annual decline in three years on concern growth in Southeast Asia’s third-biggest economy is slowing.

The year 2011 has been a challenging one for the prime minister at home and abroad.

IIUM’s four-year study pointed out that Najib’s popularity among the Malays shows a marked improvement from 35 percent in 2008 to 59 percent in 2011, an increase from 33 to 45 percent among the Chinese and from 41 to 62 percent among the Indians.

By Ali Imran Mohd Noordin, Free Malaysia Today