Archive for December 12th, 2018
One of the greatest threats to New Malaysia is toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race and religion
Posted by Kit in nation building on Wednesday, 12 December 2018
It is an honour and privilege to be invited by the organisers of Malam Sekolah, UKM to come to the UKM campus to speak, which would be unthinkable if there had not been a historic change of government in Putrajaya on May 9, 2018.
This comes on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my cultural debate with Professor Naguib Alatas at the MARA Auditorium on November 24, 1968, on whether Malaysian literature must be written only in Bahasa Malaysia, or whether it could be written in other languages, whether Chinese, Tamil or English – in other words, whether there is going to be cultural democracy in Malaysia.
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Mahathir may not have the right information when he said local council elections could lead to racial conflict
Posted by Kit in Local Goverment on Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad may not have the right information when he said yesterday that local council elections could lead to racial conflict and widen the urban-rural divide.
The view that restoration of local council elections would benefit the Chinese at the expense of the Malays ignores the local government restructuring and the process of Malay urbanization in the past five decades. Read the rest of this entry »
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