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	<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Confucianist in Zaid Ibrahim</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/the-confucianist-in-zaid-ibrahim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Herein, the ideal public administrator, but he was a man alone:

Some of his remarks are worth repeating because they are insightful:
On conversion laws: &#8220;these are problems of humankind, not problems of religion&#8221;.
On police powers to arrest, then investigate: &#8220;these are strange principles&#8221;.
On the prime minister: &#8220;here is a man, getting it here and getting it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Autumn Revolution in Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-autumn-revolution-in-malaysia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia: New Deal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Applicable to Malaysia in the present:

The English language version below attempts a more nuanced, and hopefully a more accurate, translation into the dialogue in the clip which was probably lifted from a Cantonese television series. The form and style in the Chinese language used were highly lyrical and poetic (note the four-character verse lines) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day in the Life of a DAP Politician</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/day-in-the-life-of-a-dap-politician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia: Dialogue]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia: New Deal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Public Service Life of a Political Administrator is banal. Get use to it.
AT the risk of being presumptuous, this, below, is for the benefit of the DAP politicians and their constituency members who are looking forward to substantive change in how their streets and their lives are managed. Work the table anyway they wish; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Malaysian Cake Baked by Race</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/race-politics-inside-the-scholarship-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia: New Deal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bake Another Cake
Malaysia&#8217;s Member of Parliament Fong Po Kuan (冯宝君, MP for Batu Gajah) of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) wants a reply to the demand by another parliamentarian, Pasir Salak, to keep the Malay quota for government scholarship. Here is the reply, more than 30 years overdue.
AS IN Fong Po Kuan, the DAP (and the MCA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts of Chua Soi Lek</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/thoughts-of-chua-soi-lek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Snippets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts of a former minister: Horror!
IN Chua Soi Lek with a post titled &#8220;Anwar&#8217;s DNA&#8221; which is reproduced below in full:

Allegation against Anwar for sodomy continues to dominate the headlines of local press. It is surprising that Anwar had refused lab test to be conducted in order for the DNA profile to be constructed. Normally this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Without Education, Language</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/culture-without-education-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture &amp; Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An uneducated culture: What kind of a culture is that? A language-less culture? Below, a man writes of education and language and not know what is said.
MALAYSIAKINI has a letter, dated July 17, 2008, from one Kashminder Singh. Pertinent parts:

&#8230; I can also understand and agree with the need to preserve the positive aspects of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Pakatan, What Kind of a Government?</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/in-pakatan-what-kind-of-a-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia: New Deal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who shall govern Malaysia? Why, when, what for?
Does it matter who governs? 
 
IN Lim Kit Siang, there is the Jul 9, 2008, post that transcribes a discussion segment from a radio forum at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Journalists, west or east, are very weak, even inept, in reading events, digesting and comprehending them and then extrapolating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PKR, DAP: More Spittle than Tea</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/pkr-dap-more-spittle-than-tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Commentary
A RISE in the number of a certain type of commentaries at Malaysiakini is revealing into, not the state of the National Front government, but the state of the opposition - the alliance of socialist DAP, Justice PKR and Islamic PAS - that have been given a chance to rule. They have five states, three heavily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dead Body &#38; Dead Silence Among the Critics</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/a-dead-body-dead-silence-among-the-critics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lina Joy Writings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One is repeatedly harangued by words, justice, freedom, human rights, save the constitution. But suddenly the fine words fall silent over one dead Elangesvaran Benedict. Here, below, is to explain the failure of politics over a dead body and what this might mean.
 

ON the North-South Federal Expressway, you are certain to miss Parit Buntar. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing the Evidence; Saving Ourselves</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/killing-the-evidence-saving-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The opening lines in a statutory declaration: &#8220;I, Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal (NRIC NO: xxxxxx-xx-6235) a Malaysian Citizen of full age and residing at xxxxx, Selangor do solemly and sincerely declare&#8230;&#8221;

AFTER the VK Lingam video surfaced to suggest former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, lawyer Lingam and others had fixed the judiciary the problem for those implicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seize the Day! Seize the Day!</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/seize-the-day-seize-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Police at Parliament

What is to done? After all that&#8217;s happened, what is to be done? The answer is self-evident. Between the government and the people, back the people.
THE riot police had arrived at Parliament, and not for the first time, on Monday, Jun 30, 2008. The purpose was to prevent a group of people from non-government organisations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kafka in Malaysia, visits Anwar</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/kafka-in-malaysia-visits-anwar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
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Before the law is the doorkeeper - Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
How do you prove innocence?
 
AFTER the video clip of VK Lingam was uploaded last year, Malaysian prime minister Abdullah Badawi promised retribution. Abdullah upon seeing the video was least concerned about the matter beforehand, that is, the video’s contents: lawyers, judges, politicians and businessmen conspiring to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Anwar &#38; How the Media Lies</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/on-anwar-how-the-media-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[THE notion of &#8217;spinning&#8217; is often used to describe reports in the mainstream media, The Star, RTM, the NST and so on, in an attempt to alter or reverse the effect that reported events may have on the reader. Spinning suggests or connotes an attempt to turn a positive thing negative, or vice-versa. Synonyms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Months Later: Probation Performance Appraisals</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/three-months-later-probation-performance-appraisals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ye shall know them by the company they keep. Take that principle, twist it a little, and ye shall know them by the blogs they keep.
IN the old days, PKR (Justice party) was nearly non-existent. The DAP (Democratic Action Party) parliamentary and state assembly members were so alone in the sea of the government backbenchers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horror! The Test, The Test</title>
		<link>http://shuzheng.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/horror-the-test-the-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shuzheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AT LAST, The Test. This will be the test of the Pakatan Rakyat Perak government made up of the socialist DAP, the Justice PKR and the Islamic PAS parties. DAP has 18 of the 32 Pakatan coalition seats, PKR eight (in a total of 60). PAS has the least, six, but it holds the chief minister [...]]]></description>
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