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The Bar: Our Man in the Bench
Judiciary in Malaysia. This essay argues why, for the judiciary to have any independence or integrity, it needs power. It is not apolitical. But how and from where is its power to be derived? Read.
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DIALOGUE SERIES
In commemoration of Malaysia’s 50th independence anniversary, August 2007, Dialogue explores inter-cultural, religious, economic and related issues in politics. The Dialogue series are in essay form.
Series #5: Malaysia in the Twilight
Seven Malaysians, all resident abroad and calling themselves the Diaspora, have a letter to Malaysia Today, maybe. The letter is revealing into the thinking among some Malaysians about the state of Malaysia but which is rarely, if at all, and openly admitted even by liberal Malaysians, Muslims, or Malays, or by those who shout for the downfall of the present government. For its uniqueness the letter shall be the last posting in the Dialogue Series.
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Series #4: King, Confucianism & Character
This essay is a critique to a piece of writing that appeared in the People’s Parliament by Jayanath Appudurai. It attempts to deal with the themes, the conviction of values and character judgement.
Related: Raja Nazrin, Society & Character
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Series #3: Is Malaysia a Failing State, and How?
After 50 years, where is Malaysia headed? One way to extrapolate on this idea is to examine where it now stands, as an independent, self-sustaining state. The article below is extracted, and expanded, from a Foreign Policy (FP) report, Failed States Index 2007.
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Series #2: The Future of Malaysia’s Cultures & Toilets
I am, therefore I queue: Malaysia’s prime minister Abdullah Badawi sees in Japan clean toilets and orderly queues, the reminders that some things, and vital ones at that, could never be acquired with money.
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Series #1: Chinese, Malay, Politics & Menstruation
A sentence in political speech opens all the dividing issues in culture, religion, ethnicity, women submission and men aggression.
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MACHAP, DAP & MALAYSIA’S NEW POLITICS
This is a three-part essay series examining the implications of the Machap by-election (April 2007) to race relations in Malaysia, its politics and to the survival of and renewal at the Democratic Action Party (DAP).
Part 1 DAP’s Past, Present & First Principles
Part 2 The Malay Face of the DAP
Part 2 Sidebar: Islamification of the Malay
Part 3 A Malaysian Ethnic Bill of Rights
Part 3 Sidebar: Ijok’s Lesson in Race Relations
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