What Does Unity Talk Mean?

Anybody care to elaborate on what Parti Se-Islam Malaysia (PAS) Deputy President Nasaruddin Mat Isa has in mind lately? Why the insistence on staging a Unity Talk 15 months after the last General Election when PAS could have concentrated on working out more effective ways to help the 4 ‘PAS-PKR-DAP’ coalition-led states to improve their administration.
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Oh! I Don’t Know

 YB Khalid Samad
2 weeks ago when Parti Se-Islam Malaysia (PAS) had their 55th Muktamar, many resolutions were passed, one of them being the call to ban the social movement – “Sisters In Islam” (SIS). I read the newspapers with sadness and disgust that such a mature party as PAS can have such narrow and backward [...]

SOPA Award – for Police?

 SOPA Awards 2009
I’d like to congratulate theSun for being awarded this year’s Society Of Publishers Asia (SOPA) Awards. It is indeed an honour for a Malaysian publications to win such a prestigious industry benchmark recognition. I think Nades and Terrence would be very proud as both were there in Hong Kong to receive the award [...]

A Nation of Mediocrity

“English was the lingua franca of the time. From the driver to the street peddlar, it was “Good morning Sir”. And the school teacher always reminded us that you shouldnt even think of stepping into society and making your presence felt if your English is substandard.
Everywhere we went, from the home to the work place, from [...]