Letters
by Angelia Ong
Just to let you know:
1. SMK BU4
Hip hip hoorah! You will all be glad that the fiasco at the BU4 school has been resolved. The Headmistress has now conceded to bring back the lion dance, cheerleading squad and other ‘banned activities’. Power to the parents! Fortunately some members of MI4, together with […]
By Farish A. Noor
There are strongmen, and then again there are really strong strongmen. Indonesia’s former President Suharto falls into the latter category and though the man was finally deposed after waves of student demonstrations that rocked Indonesia in May 1998, he remains - despite his ailing health - firmly planted on the map of […]
Educational and in particular university quality and excellence has increasingly become an important indicator not only of a nation’s international competitiveness but its capacity for development as a world-class developed nation.
A recent news report in the world of higher education is a sobre and sombre reminder as to how far we have lagged […]
By Thomas Bell in Kuala Lumpur
Telegraph, UK
Last Updated: 5:13pm GMT 23/01/2008
Hindus in Malaysia mortified their flesh with hooks and spears as they delivered a protest against the government which has imprisoned their popular leaders without charge.
With elections in the multi-racial country expected within weeks, ethnic grievances pose a mounting threat to the party that […]
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