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Cast aside sledgehammer politics
Open letter to Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi I write to you as someone who has followed your political ascension from Umno Youth chief to your current position as Home Minister. As a young university student, I watched with pride when you took on the then Umno president and Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the issue of cronyism and nepotism at the 1998 Umno general ...
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Call for bridge-building among all
It is time to repair, construct and reconstruct appropriate and reliable social ...
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Stop the accidents on MRR2 with road humps
THE horrific accident at Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR2) in Kuala Lumpur that killed four people on Sunday has left many shocked. Accidents are happening too randomly and frequently. This is not the first time that brake failure of a vehicle coming down the road has claimed lives. Years ago, a lorry driver, unable to slow down his vehicle, careened straight into the river across the MRR2, which spans ...
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Salute to staff at Sg Buloh Hospital Ward 5c
ALL my life, I have heard many horror stories about government hospitals and was sceptical of their professionalism until my recent experience at Sungai Buloh ...
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Risky to leave one’s MyKad unattended
I WISH to voice my concern over a not-so-good practice by the Jabatan Kastam Langkawi when lending out wheelchairs to the public. It is a must for those who borrow the ...
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Long wait at passport office
I WOULD like to highlight some important points for passport applicants that you will not find in the Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia website. The background colour for the passport photo is now no longer ...
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Difficult to pay quit rent
THE Selangor government has placed advertisements wanting all house owners in the state to pay their quit rent. Since I ...
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Those good old days when we truly mixed
I APPLAUD Wong Chun Wai for a refreshing article (On The Beat, Sunday Star, May 19) about bringing back the English schools. I am a product of the English school. In the good old days we mixed as one, no matter what race or religion we were. That was until politics got into the picture. I remember my primary school teacher Mrs Tan. Her son Tan Saik Kim and I were good friends, as were our ...
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Inventions a-plenty but no real innovation
Innovation brings new value or unearths value that was previously hidden while inventions put something novel on the table. AS you read this, we as a nation would have just completed exercising our right to vote. Regardless of your political affiliation, one must admire democracy at work in Malaysia. As political leaders engaged their constituents nationwide, I too have engaged my constituents, ...
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Taxi pricing should serve public needs
Yesterday, Beijing held a public hearing on taxi prices. Rising taxi fares have been an irreversible trend in spite of opposition from passengers. Hearings just help society to accept this reality. The public understands clearly that current taxi prices cannot be maintained indefinitely. However, different schemes for price increases within two plans released by the municipal government would ...
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Close gap in mental illness
Open the Google Chrome browser Click Tools icon>Options>Under the Hood>Content Settings Check Allow local data to be set Uncheck Block third-party cookies from being set Uncheck Clear cookies Close ...
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Quality schools hold the key to good education
Sunday Star , May 19). I am a product of a national school whose curriculum consists of all subjects in Bahasa Malaysia, except English as a subject in itself. However, I was lucky because we still had a multi-racial composition in my school at that time as I was among the early batch to start learning all subjects in Bahasa Malaysia. I looked at my teachers and knew that they struggled in ...
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Strength in our difference
THE general election is over. For some, the battle has been won but for others, it is a lost cause and they cannot wait for the next election to come. There have been many unpleasant comments made by politicians in the newspapers, radio, television and social media that you begin to see how fragmented our society has become. There are those who engage in race baiting to unite their own citizens ...
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A tale of two schools
In Bangladesh, a unique school that teaches English to children living in slum areas provides interesting lessons that we can emulate. SINCE we cannot expect much change in our education system in the next few years, let me present some observations of two different schools ...
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Danger on the road
THIS picture tells the whole story. I was on the road around 3.30pm on May 21 when I noticed this lorry overloaded with recycled items. I followed it from Tesco/IOI Puchong until the junction of Kinrara, near the army camp, before the driver turned off from main Puchong road. All the way, the driver was driving on the right lane meant for fast vehicles. I kept a safe distance from the lorry and ...
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We must look at language as an asset
I WAS brought up in a non-English-speaking family. As my parents could not afford tuition for their children, I had to struggle with my English during the first few years of my school days. Fortunately, I was blessed to have very good educators in school, whom, together with my own perseverance, helped me get a distinction in the MCE. So much is being said of the English language but I must also ...
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We have to be humane to all who are put under arrest
AS a doctor, I am saddened to read about the way student activist Adam Adli is being treated. Firstly, no one should be treated like a criminal until proven guilty. Should all arrests require the suspect to be handcuffed? Obviously not, because no one should be considered guilty till proven that they are, and the handcuffs should be reserved for potentially dangerous and violent criminals. Next, ...
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Be diligent on construction safety issues
I READ with extreme concern the latest incident in Trengganu where the roof of a village mosque came crashing down . Fortunately there were no injuries or fatalities. It was a close shave for the villagers performing their Isyak prayers. The Kampung Binjai Kertas mosque, which cost RM1.7mil, was opened in 2008 to replace an older village mosque. In 2009 a major part of the Sultan Mizan Zainal ...
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My family the real 1Malaysia
I CAME from a very wealthy family who owned a fleet of lorries, two timber mills, a plywood factory and acres of forests in Gua Musang during the 1970s/80s. But the family lost all these when my father was killed in a road accident in 1980 and that changed my ...
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A lot for you to work on KJ
NEWLY-appointed Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin will have his hands full in reviving a number of sports that are under-performing, including football, athletics and even badminton. Last night our Sudirman Cup badminton team failed miserably by losing 3-2 to Germany. A day earlier we lost 3-2 to Taiwan. Both these countries are minnows in badminton. Badminton has been our star ...
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It’s time to let love heal our nation
THE 13th general election is over. It has been the most hotly contested elections to-date. The winners and losers have been declared and the respective state governments are already in place. Those who continue to dispute the results can go to the courts for a decision. The rallies being organised to show discontent should henceforth cease. Many of us who are apolitical are sad by the turn of ...
Karachi Feature
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Karachi reaching for sky with high-rise developments
There is more to Karachi than factional violence and political strife, as is seen in the recent major realty developments taking place in the city.
All residents of Karachi are aware that the city contributes some 20% to the total GDP of the entire country, it is the financial center of Pakistan and is also Pakistan’s most famous city. Since the political crises of the 1980s and the resultant economic backlash the city and the country has struggled with much capital leaving the city. Since the global downturn the city has seen another wave of economic stagnation, but as the world recovers and the local and national government build international integrity, the future fortunes of the city look promising. Read more
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