Archive for 'Top Stories'
Surviving GE 2008
Or A Skeptics Guide to the Difficult Choices Before Us
By Sharaad Kuttan
ELECTION season never fails to induce in me a sense of dread. While I wish it a quick end, I am by no means an advocate of the shorter campaign period. Like in so many other things, it’s not the length that […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2008 under My Take, Top Stories.
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The “Moderate” Mischief of the BN
By Danny Lim
dannylim@malaysiavotes.com
Outside the BN/UMNO Bilik Gerakan in Chembong, near the nomination centre. Photos by Danny Lim.
[Updated with correction at 6.30pm, 2 March 2008]
A DAY before the Feb 24 nomination day, Khairy Jamaluddin fields press questions during a kenduri at his family home in Kampung Badong, Negri Sembilan. A reporter fishes for a response to […]
Posted: March 1st, 2008 under On The Ground, Top Stories.
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Promises, promises?
Tricia YeohTHE political parties announced their manifestos on Feb 25, which represent their public declaration and pledge to uphold their stated principles and goals. How important are manifestos? Do Malaysians, voters and political parties alike, take them seriously enough? Why do some dismiss these documents as promises, promises. In this Q&A, Centre for Public Policy […]
Posted: March 1st, 2008 under The Big Picture, Top Stories.
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Raising the Keris
Photo by Farish Noor.
DO non-Malays really need to fear the keris and what it symbolises? At a 3pm public lecture at the Annexe Gallery at Central Market in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, March 1, historian and political scientist Dr Farish Noor will attempt to relocate the keris in its proper cultural-historical context. The […]
Posted: February 29th, 2008 under My Take, On the Ceramah Trail, Top Stories.
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Coalition Politics: Beyond the Glue of Power
By Dr. Mavis Puthucheary
“They all have different ideologies and opposing views. You cannot form a government like that,” caretaker Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said confidently on Feb 25. He was referring to the electoral pact between the opposition parties, which has often had this criticism leveled against it. It is said that […]
Posted: February 29th, 2008 under My Take, Top Stories.
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