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Found 81 matches for Ampang Jaya
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| 2006-04-14 | The crooked bridge and cultural enmity
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| 2006-03-13 | Pak Lah blinks as the people get angry
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| 2005-10-28 | Corruption, the politician, and the public servant
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| 2005-10-21 | The power of rumours, and where Malaysia went wrong
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| 2005-10-16 | Corruption makes Malaysia go around
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| 2005-10-10 | The moral fibre has gone out of Malaysian politics
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| 2005-03-16 | A constitutional misstep clips Pak Lah's wings yet again
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| 2005-02-14 | The politics, and greed, of privatisation
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| 2005-01-17 | Chaos in place with political rubber band
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| 2005-01-14 | TNB scandals, the blackout, national security
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| 2004-08-11 | In power, but without it – as negotiated contracts continue to drain the Treasury
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| 2004-04-25 | Blinded in the eye of the storm, Pak Lah cannot do what he must
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| 2004-02-09 | The shifting sands of Islamic politics in Malaysian mosques When the BN lost its head, after the Anwar Ibrahim affair in 1989, the disenchanted Malays in the Malay states distanced themselves from the state authorities. Nowhere was this clearer than in the mosques. Some mosques the Klang Valley - in Damansara Utara and in Section 14 in Petaling Jaya, for instance - were "anti-establishment" mosques. Try as it might, the government could not contain them. They represented the PAS view of a religion under challenge and attack. For years, it remained an odd presence in a sea of official conformity. It is not any more. The official view of Islam is challenged in even the old FMS states. It goes without saying that even in the 'official mosques' in Selangor and in the other states, Muslims gather in the evenings to castigate the government for its "wrong doings". The mosque in Ampang Jaya frequented by the late brother-in-law of Tun Mahathir Mohamed was one. He would, when when he was there, put up a strong defence of his brother-in-law's administration, but he was almost always shouted down by his fellow parishioners, several of whom, at least when I went there with a Muslim friends on occasion, had federal and state titles for which a Chinese business man would gladly have sacrificed an arm and a leg and lots of money. There it was the inescapable voice of the Establishment.
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| 2004-01-07 | The missing three MCA presidents
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| 2004-01-02 | Nepotism, like corruption, is a crime in Malaysia only if the wrong party is guilty of it When the Malay Mail, which reported on it, asked the Selayang state assemblyman, Dato' Ahmad Bhari Abdul Rahman, about it, he did not want to be involved in it. "Why do you drag me into this? You were at the meeting and you saw what happened. I don;t want to give you any comments". When asked why none of the other councillors raised the matter, he said: "No comment". One did speak off the record. He thought Mr Bakaruddin breached no rules as the committee he chaired only affirmed what a sub-committee had endorsed it. But final appointment is made by this committee he chairs. When the Gerakan representative on the Johore Bahru Town Council lobbied for his brother with the Council to revoke a penalty, and then refused to step out of the meeting discussing it, and it became public, the party asked him to resign. This is not all. When the Ampang Jaya municipal council appointed a bankrupt as head of its enforcement unit, it raised a stink. It turned out there was more to it than had been revealed, that the state mentri besar, Dato' Seri Khir Toyo and another on his executive council were involved.
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| 2003-11-20 | The BN admits dato'ships and other titles could be bought under its governance Between Tun Ghafar in the 1960s and Dato' Seri Mohamed Ali Rastam in 2003 is a wide gulf. Today, paying money for titles is not unusual in the state. Dato' Seri Ali of course denies it, but one dato' from Sabah proudly tells anyone who would listen in Kota Kinabalu that he paid RM200,000 for his recent Malacca title. He also appointed a bankrupt as the Jasin district council secretary, stonewalled all criticism about it, insisted there was no law against it, and then sacked the man, when Pak Lah said he should not hold the post. There was a similar problem in the Ampang Jaya district council, when a bankrupt was appointed to a high profile post. He was later charged in court for not revealing his bankruptcy when he applied for the post. Dato' Seri Ali tries to sidetrack the issue to insist that the matter is now closed, and no one should raise it. Why not? Is he, as a politican, not subject to public scrutiny? He has abused his office in what he did. In proper times, he would have resigned, or be forced out. That cannot happen here. Because if he is, so would many a leading UMNO leader in office.
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| 2003-09-25 | The Prime Minister led Malaysia to yesterday's sunset not tomorrow's dawn
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| 2003-09-10 | The Mahafiraun's Last Hurrah
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| 2003-09-04 | Can Pak Lah be safe after Dr Mahathir steps down?
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| 2003-09-01 | What Merdeka Day is not
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