A German lesson for Malaysia
I WAS in Berlin when I came across Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield. And no, it wasn’t because of his creative space recording of David Bowie’s 1969 hit single, Space Oddity, which generated...
View ArticleLiow’s first test as transport minister: Gain control over SPAD
THE Malaysian cabinet is a weird creature: that the Transport Minister has entirely no say over public transport is mind boggling. The first test for Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai as Transport Minister is...
View ArticleCurrencies and the collapse of globalisation
WE live in stirring times. The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, crossed the monetary policy Rubicon and cut one of the eurozone’s key interest rates into negative...
View ArticleHarmony Bills: Not too late for NUCC to backtrack
IT was reported that the Perkasa Secretary General, Syed Hassan Syed Ali, has said that he and thousands others will quit Umno if the three draft national unity bills published by the National Unity...
View ArticleViewpoint: 'BN sold more land than Pakatan Rakyat'
FOR those who claim that Penang state government is relying solely on selling off all state land in the state to generate revenue, this is untrue as Barisan Nasional has sold 35 times more land than...
View ArticleJln Tan Hiok Nee: A face of M’sian diversified cultures or racism?
MORE than a year has passed after one of the most exciting general elections in Malaysian political history.The general election has not brought many changes at the national level as the ruling party...
View ArticleGovernance in company groups
WHAT do BP, Lehmann Brothers, The In all these cases, governance problems arose in group entities which had a very significant effect on the listed entity but the listed entity appeared to have been...
View ArticleZahid should be dropped as the Home Minister or have his portfolio changed
IF the Prime Minister was serious about getting rid of unfit or unsuitable or underperformed Ministers in the recent Cabinet reshuffle (which turned out to be Cabinet expansion), he could easily find a...
View ArticleWho won Europe?
THE fight over who will be the European Commission (EC)’s next president is heating up. Several European Union leaders were recently spotted in a small rowboat on a Swedish lake, reportedly scheming...
View ArticleAntibiotic resistance – Doomsday may be closer than you think
We are in a state of crisis, yet most Malaysians don’t even know this. Antibiotics of last resort have become useless in treating infections; there is multi-drug resistant TB, malaria and gonorhhea to...
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