EC chief: Cabinet disapproved of indelible ink

Malaysiakini

May 17, 08 12:48pm
 

Election Commission chairperson Rashid Abdul Rahman said the cabinet did not approve the use of indelible ink during the March 8 general election.
“I was told that I was to take the responsibility for agreeing to it. It’s not easy being EC chairperson. I took the whole rap over the year,” Rashid told [...]

NCR – Masing owes Dayaks one big explanation

 

IB
 

I was baffled and astonished to read the remark recently by James Masing (PRS half-president) in referring to a DAP state assembly person’s debate on the land issue in the Sarawak state assembly as a ‘cultural arrogance”. I wonder, with his doctorate in anthropology, yet he has invented such term which to him simply means: [...]

The ’social contract’ and May 13

Joe Fernandez

 

The current debate over the ‘social contract’ is not the first time that attempts have been made to revise history for reasons of political expediency.
Nearly 40 years ago, after the searing Sino-Malay race riots of Friday, May 13, 1969 in Kuala Lumpur, many historians attributed the bloodshed to the ‘breakdown’ of the ‘social contract’ [...]

Cop admits Tian could not have breached police cordon

 

Andrew Ong
 

Chief Inspector Sazali Ahmad told the Kuala Lumpur magistrate’s court today PKR information chief Tian Chua could not have entered Parliament compound to participate in a planned gathering on Dec 11 last year.
During cross-examination by Chua’s counsel Ranjit Singh, Sazali agreed that the accused could not have proceeded to Parliament because the car he [...]

Apa itu Ketuanan Melayu?: Khir Toyo

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Berikut adalah nukilan Khir Toyo dalam blognya yang menerangkan apakah maksud Ketuanan Melayu yang sebenarnya… Saya tertarik dengan beberapa pernyataannya…
Jika isu ketuanan Melayu yang menjadi masalah kepada orang muda dari kaum Cina dan India, maka kita perlu menerangkan asas mengapa ketuanan Melayu itu menjadi salah satu perjuangan UMNO. Malahan sebahagian orang muda Melayu sendiri hari ini sudah [...]