ARCHIVES 2012

After the second break-in – the window that was forced open

P. Ramakrishnan

Exactly 18 days after the first break-in at the Aliran office, the thieves struck again for the second time. They removed the same grille, forced open the same window and entered the same room. That was as far as they went.

The latest rankings by Times Higher Education are out, but where are the Malaysian universities? This is a reflection of the dismal standards to which they have sunk.

Anil Netto

As chief minister, Mohd Ali has no business accepting favours from businesses. 

Chua Jui Meng

Malacca Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam’s special secretary MS Mahadevan told the Star yesterday that “many of the caterers and other businesses provided their services for free” at the CM’s son’s wedding.

Under Budget 2013, the allocation to set up a 1Malaysia grocery store in Sabah and Sarawak will cost RM6.7 million.

Athi Shankar, FMT

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng is curious on why it costs RM6.7 million to set up a 1Malaysia grocery store (KR1M) in Sabah and Sarawak when it only costs RM470,000 per store in the Peninsular.

Malaysia needs not only a new educational direction, detouring from the road of further “apartheid-isation of education” it is happily traversing but also a new breed of cosmopolitanistic-thinking educational policymakers and practitioners.

A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE

Dr Azly Rahman

Bagaimanapun, Khalid memandang kenyataan Azmin itu dari sudut positif kerana beliau dilihat boleh bekerja di peringkat Persekutuan maupun Negeri.

Fazy Sahir, FMT

Kenyataan Timbalan Presiden PKR Mohamed Azmin Ali bahawa Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim akan ditukar ke kerajaan Persekutuan sekiranya Pakatan Rakyat memenangi pilihan raya umum ke 13 (PRU13) bukan pendirian Pakatan.

Taklimat itu bagi membolehkan ahli parlimen BN dan Pakatan Rakyat mendengar penjelasan mengenai dokumen hasil siasatan polis Perancis. 

Jamilah Kamarudin, FMT

Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menjemput peguam Perancis datang ke Malaysia untuk memberi taklimat kepada Ahli Parlimen berhubung kes pembelian dua kapal selam Scorpene yang sedang berjalan di mahkamah Perancis.

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Blue-eyed Boy is making his move, or at least indicating his grand strategy - c'mon, I wanna hear some thunderous applause lah, wakakaka. 

Hence trade and commerce is very crucial to Islam. And the distribution of wealth (zakat) is one of the tenets of Islam alongside praying, fasting and performing the pilgrimage (Haj). And in Islam it is mandatory that every year you pay 2.5-3.0% of your wealth as zakat. This zakat is then distributed to the needy, poor, orphans, people too old or too sick to work, travellers, people in debt, etc.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

LEAKED RECORDING: Two leaders at meeting named in report