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Thu, Feb 23, 2012

Egalitaria

Egalitaria

The help

Posted on 10 February 2012 - 03:10am

Tricia Yeoh

HOLLYWOOD movie The Help tells the story of a young white journalist in the early 1960s who writes a controversial book about black maids and the racism they are subjected to by their employers, based on pre-civil rights movement America.

Movement of Moderates: Global or Malaysian?

Posted on 27 January 2012 - 03:09am

Tricia Yeoh

PRIME Minister Najib Razak has for the past two years spoken on the theme of moderation at international platforms.

Game-changers at the year’s start

Posted on 12 January 2012 - 07:21pm
Last updated on 13 January 2012 - 12:00am

Tricia Yeoh

WELCOME back to reality and its various antics of the New Year. Without so much as a breather, events of the first two weeks of 2012 have come tumbling upon us one after the other. Three are looking to be game-changers.

First, the sacking of Selangor state executive councillor Hasan Ali from PAS after having publicly expressed views divergent to the party's.

Financial outflows hamper growth

Posted on 23 December 2011 - 03:09am

Tricia Yeoh

FOR my ‘A’ Level literature class, we studied Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born, in which a nameless man struggles against a post-independent Ghana rife with corruption and rot.

Managing plural societies

Posted on 9 December 2011 - 03:08am

Tricia Yeoh

EARLIER this week, I had the opportunity to speak at a Malaysia-Australia dialogue at the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University in Melbourne. This was the second of such dialogues, the first of which took place in Penang two years ago.

The paradox of plenty

Posted on 25 November 2011 - 03:08am

Tricia Yeoh

THE paradox of plenty refers to resource-rich countries with slower economic growth and worse development outcomes than those without. At first glance, it does not look like we have been hit with this “resource curse”. But a deeper analysis might show otherwise.

Open crucial mega-deals to public eye

Posted on 11 November 2011 - 03:06am

by Tricia Yeoh

CYBERSPACE was on fire recently after the auditor-general’s 2010 annual report revealed a host of financial irregularities perpetrated by several government agencies and government-linked companies. Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) was among six GLCs reported to have paid up to two months’ bonus despite suffering RM354.91 million in losses in 2009.

A vicious cycle

Posted on 21 October 2011 - 03:10am

FOR the last two weeks, all eyes have been on Budget 2012 (themed “National Transformation Policy: Welfare for the Rakyat, Well-Being of the Nation”) unveiled by the prime minister in Parliament, politicians and economists analysing its contents and what it means to Malaysians.

Same rules of the game

Posted on 7 October 2011 - 03:07am

Tricia Yeoh

“WE are the 99%” is the slogan used by the thousands of protesters who stormed New York City in the “Occupy Wall Street” campaign, which culminated in a march and mass arrests on Brooklyn Bridge last weekend.

Key liberties not yet settled

Posted on 23 September 2011 - 03:09am

Tricia Yeoh

IT WAS an interesting time to be in Europe (I attended an international market research network meeting last week), with the ever-present talk of the Eurozone in crisis, Greece's potential default, the rest having to pick up its pieces especially Germany, and the general financial uncertainty in the region.