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Thu, May 17, 2012

Columns

Shake off apathy on Batang Kali

Posted on 17 May 2012 - 05:02am

Yap Mun Ching

EARLIER this month, Britain’s High Court heard for the first time testimony by Scots Guards soldiers admitting that they had killed and covered up the 1948 massacre of 24 unarmed rubber plantation workers in the village of Batang Kali.

Free port politics

Posted on 16 May 2012 - 08:17pm
Last updated on 16 May 2012 - 09:54pm

Himanshu Bhatt

EYEBROWS were raised this week when news broke that the Barisan Nasional is proposing that Penang’s free port status be restored – 43 years after it had been stripped away.

Questions from Tawau reservoir find

Posted on 16 May 2012 - 04:22am

R. Nadeswaran

MORE than 30 years ago, a report for the newspaper I was then working for was prepared along these lines: “We could have poisoned half of Kuala Lumpur yesterday. There is no security in reservoirs in the Klang Valley and they are an open target for anyone to cause mischief which could result in thousands of deaths.

Irreconcilable differences

Posted on 15 May 2012 - 07:57pm
Last updated on 15 May 2012 - 10:54pm

Oon Yeoh

WHEN news first came out that DAP vice-chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim was against Bersih 3.0, it came as a shock to many people, especially because of the timing of his comments, right before the rally.

His comments might have been an off-the-cuff response to a reporter’s question. Many were certainly prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.

France’s far right set to attack

Posted on 15 May 2012 - 05:10am

Eric S. Margolis

“APRES moi, le deluge!” – After me, the deluge. So said French king Louis XV, and was he ever right. His successor faced the French Revolution and lost his head.

Much the same can be said of France’s outgoing president, Nicholas Sarkozy.

A miracle in the nick of time

Posted on 15 May 2012 - 04:38am

Bob Holmes

IT DOES NOT GET better than this. Football, sport, drama… indeed even our fantasies would be hard-pressed to come up with anything as spellbinding or far-fetched as the climax of the 20th Premier League season.

Selangor’s water politics

Posted on 15 May 2012 - 03:14am

Azman Ujang

WHEN I started this column in August last year, it wasn’t a case of being spoilt for choice as to what to write on to kick it off with.

It was a non-issue that I wanted to write about water – life’s most precious resource – the subject closest to my heart.

By coincidence around that time, two SOS warnings rang out in quick succession from top officials of Syabas, the privatised

Elite versus national schools

Posted on 14 May 2012 - 07:49pm
Last updated on 14 May 2012 - 10:14pm

Zainon Ahmad

Scene: Syed Bistro, PJ.

Mohan: I am very happy that I can now send my children to international schools in this country.

Azman: You couldn’t do that before?

Mohan: Difficult ma. They are mainly for children of diplomats and other expatriats.

Right way to right wrongs

Posted on 14 May 2012 - 03:03am

Halimah Mohd Said

CITIZEN demonstrations in the form of a public gathering of people in a rally or walking in a march are fast becoming synonymous with the democratic awakening in many countries, signifying the people’s fundamental right to freedom of assembly.

English-medium schools: No place for ‘we know best’

Posted on 13 May 2012 - 06:56pm
Last updated on 13 May 2012 - 08:56pm

R. Nadeswaran

LET there be no mistake. Malay or Bahasa Malaysia is the national language. It will continue to be the medium of instruction in our schools notwithstanding the existence of Chinese and Tamil schools.