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Hindraf demo - Indian Parliament in uproar over Nazri’s outburst

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Malaysian Ministers must get rid of the “frog in coconut shell” mentality and learn the first basic rule of global society — we must accept and withstand international scrutiny of national policies in the same way Malaysian leaders castigate injustices of other countries like the Palestinian and Iraq issues.
Only yesterday, the Prime Minister, […]

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Posted in Foreign, Human Rights, Indians, nation building | 108 Comments »

Hindraf demo - only two honourable options for Samy Vellu

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi kicking the ball back to the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) to set up another committee on the plight of Malaysian Indians is a great letdown after the 30,000-strong Hindraf demonstration — which was both a cry of desperation for justice of Malaysian Indians […]

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Hindraf demo - BN Ministers and leaders should have at least 30% of Toh Kin Woon’s sincerity and honesty

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

When Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi became the fifth Prime Minister on 30th October 2003, he made the famous pledge to “hear the truth, however unpleasant”, which he had infamously dishonoured in the past four years.
Recently, Abdulah’s pledge to “hear the truth” was ignomiously revised by the Information Minister, Datuk Seri […]

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Posted in Human Rights, Indians | 119 Comments »

Hindraf, Communitarianism and the Made-In-Malaysia Dilemma

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

By Farish A.Noor
Well, well, well… . Now it appears as if the proverbial chickens have come home to roost. Following the less-than-welcomed but to-be-expected reaction from some Indian politicians and political parties in neighbouring India in the wake of the recent demonstration in Kuala Lumpur organised by the Malaysian Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), it […]

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High-handed police action at Hindraf rally — Indian diaspora reacts

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Monday’s press carried reports and photographs of a foreign woman tourist in the Kuala Lumpur centre on Sunday who was the victim of indiscriminate police tear gas attacks which aggravated her asthmatic condition.
In the era of globalization, the earth has become a global village and it is impossible for Malaysia to disregard international […]

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RM4.6 billion PKFZ scandal - Chan Kong Choy still Minister-on-the-run

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

MCA Deputy President and Transport Minister, Datuk Chan Kong Choy has confirmed that he is a Minister-on-the-run from his sheer inability to answer five simplified questions on the RM4.6 billion Port Klang Free Zone scandal in Parliament yesterday.
When moving a RM10 salary-cut motion for the Transport Minister yesterday, I tried to make things […]

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Posted in Good Governance, PKFZ, Parliament, Transport | 34 Comments »

Abdullah’s threat to use ISA - nadir in 4 years of broken pledges on democracy, human rights, accountability, integrity

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi returned from the Kampala Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and threatened to use the nefarious law, the Internal Security Act (ISA), against peaceful demonstrators — marking a new nadir of the four-year broken pledges by the Abdullah premiership on democracy, human rights, accountability, incorruptibility and […]

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Posted in Human Rights, Indians | 80 Comments »

RM4.6 billion PKFZ scandal questions - why Kong Choy cannot give “yes or no” answers?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

On the very first day of the current 45-day budget parliamentary session from August 27 to December 19, 2007, I had highlighted the scandal of the RM4.6 billion Port Klang Free Zone bailout in an emergency motion to adjourn the House under Standing Order 18(1) for a debate on an issue of urgent, definite public […]

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Hindraf demo - Cabinet should offer olive branch and end all sabre-rattling

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

The Barisan Nasional leaders, led by Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, should stop their truculent and confrontational responses to the Sunday 30,000 Hindraf demonstration in Kuala Lumpur, as illustrated by the following:

Saber-rattling and tough language like newspaper headlines, “Kerajaan tidak gentar — Perhimpunan Hindraf jelas bermotif politik — Najib” (Utusan […]

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Posted in Indians, nation building | 115 Comments »

Between a rock and a hard place (2)

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Two YouTube items here:
(1) A longer 8.23 minute video clip of the two parliamentary episodes during question time yesterday when the 30,000-people Hindraf demonstration in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 25th November 2007 was raised. The earlier clip was 5.08 minutes. The longer video clip has the supplementary question by the “one-eye […]

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Posted in Human Rights, Indians | 35 Comments »

Between a rock and a hard place

Monday, November 26th, 2007

See on YouTube two parliamentary episodes during question time today — the first, “Hindraf rally was a cry of desperation by the Indian community” when I asked a supplementary question to the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department pointing out that the Hindraf demonstration was the upshot of the long-standing marginalization of the […]

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Posted in Human Rights, Parliament | 44 Comments »

RCI on Lingam Tape - test of whether Mahathir is right that Cabinet is “half-past six”

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The Cabinet must prove Tun Dr. Mahathir wrong that it is “half-past six’ by establishing a wide-ranging and unfettered Royal Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday to deal with the root-and-branch problem of the crisis of confidence in the judiciary going back for 19 years and not just deal with the “tip of the iceberg” of […]

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Wimax & penipuan SMS

Monday, November 26th, 2007

1 ) Penipuan melalui kandungan SMS
Saya merujuk kepada kenyataan Menteri Tenaga, Air dan Komunikasi bertarikh 5 September 2007 di mana menteri berkenaan menyebut hanya terdapat 23 kes daripada 176 aduan orang awam yang telah melanggar Garispanduan industri pembekalan kandungan SMS, dan hanya 9 syarikat pembekal kandungan SMS tersebut dikenakan penalti secara pembayaran kompaun.
Dalam pada itu, […]

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Offensive Aljazeera interview on Hindraf demo - MIC MP Devamany owes public apology

Monday, November 26th, 2007

MIC MP for Cameron Highlands Devamany a/l S. Krishnasamy should publicly apologise for his Aljazeera interview yesterday belittling the Hindraf demonstration and condemning the demonstrators when he should be deploring the police mishandling and excessive use of force in firing tear gas and liquid chemicals against the defenceless and unarmed in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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Moratorium on Syabas water disconnections which violate the fundamental human right of the poor to clean water

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The Ministry of Water, Energy and Communications should issue an directive to Syabas to impose an immediate moratorium on water disconnections in the concession area of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya which affect the poor.
Last month, the Coalition Against Water Privatisation (CAWP) and MTUC had spoken up because they were appalled at […]

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