Rabu, 11 Ogos 2010

Lim Kit Siang

Lim Kit Siang


Escaping the middle-income trap

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:42 PM PDT

by Michael Schuman | Time August 10, 2010 I returned a few days ago from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, where the talk of the town – well, at least among economists — is the "middle-income trap." What’s that, you ask? A developing nation gets "trapped" when it reaches a certain, relatively comfortable level [...]

Race card won’t add Umno’s Malay votes, analysts say

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:21 PM PDT

By Adib Zalkapli | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 — The attacks against Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s administration for allegedly discriminating against Malay traders would not work in favour of Umno to harvest more Malay votes, said analysts. The Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia last week rapped the Penang government with banner headlines [...]

Malaysia in the Era of Globalization #27

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:05 PM PDT

By M. Bakri Musa Chapter 4: Modern Model States Don't Cry For Argentina Argentina, like the rest of Latin America, conjures a certain indelible image. The phrase Banana Republic is both evocative and descriptive: a country dependent on a single commodity. It is banana for Honduras, sugar for Cuba, tin for Bolivia, and meat for [...]

Bumbling in desperation – and where’s the dignity?

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 07:28 PM PDT

By Mariam Mokhtar Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:05 OPINION Teoh Beng Hock's death was an undignified one. He was found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) offices after an overnight interrogation to answer corruption allegations involving his boss. Teoh's family maintain that he was murdered, but the [...]

Was Teoh Beng Hock “forced to commit suicide” when he plunged to his death from 14th floor of MACC headquarters in Shah Alam on July 16 last year?

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 01:05 AM PDT

The Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail should be censured for the travesty of justice in exposing details of "new evidence" not yet tendered in the Teoh Beng Hock inquest. This is in addition to the gross irregularity and impropriety of the Attorney-General in suppressing the "new evidence", which should have been introduced at the beginning [...]

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