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| 2001-10-21 | The hassles of buying a mobile phone
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| 2001-09-18 | Smart Cards to Make Life Difficult For All
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| 2001-09-03 | Why A Separate Sewerage Fee?
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| 2001-08-30 | The Chief Secretary Accepts Corruption Is A Problem The Chief Secretary to the Government, Tan Sri Shamsudin Osman,
has made a stupendous discovery (New Straits Times, 27 August 01,
p1), so dramatic that he had to say it in the usual roundabout
fashion of bureaucrats: that corruption is a problem in the
Civil Service or, as he coyly puts it, greed is the root of
graft. Thirty years after the Anti-Corruption Agency is set up,
and with laws regularly tightened to control corruption, he says
the law enforcement agencies "should have an internal control
system that can act against people who commit corrupt practice".
In other words, these agencies slept while greed encouraged
graft. No one in charge bothered to address it; no one still
does. Meanwhile, corruption became a cancer. It has spread to
all levels of society; it is so bad now that any transaction
requires the grease of money.
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| 2001-08-27 | The Prime Minister To Make An "Important Speech"!!! It is the height of discourtesy to expect one to attend a
lecture, even if by the Prime Minister, on a subject yet unknown.
How could the Oxford and Cambridge Society invite him to the
lecture without finding out what he would speak on? Once it
would not have mattered. Now it would. Many would consciously
not turn up if he is the speaker. That has nothing to do with
the Society but with the fissures within Malay Society. He is at
odds with it, and Malays, some in the highest rung of Malaysian
social set, Civil Service and government, distance themselves
away from him.
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| 2001-07-21 | IWK Pollutes Sungei Kayu Ara
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| 2001-07-18 | IWK Takes An Ad
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| 2001-07-16 | IWK Asks Its "Customers" To Pay
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| 2001-06-27 | IWK engages debt collectors
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| 2001-05-29 | Bangsa Malaysia: As You Sow, So You Reap So, it is disingenious of Dr Mahathir to claim that the
non-Malays do not want to enter the armed forces or the
government or Civil Service because the pay is not
attractive. He claims, without proof, rising salaries and
perks would not draw the non-Malays into the Civil Service.
It has been official policy for three decades that the
non-Malay is discouraged from joining government services,
and once in is put to incredible blocks to ensure he does
not arise above a pre-determined rank.
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| 2001-05-29 | Bangsa Malaysia: As You Sow, So You Reap So, it is disingenious of Dr Mahathir to claim that the
non-Malays do not want to enter the armed forces or the
government or Civil Service because the pay is not
attractive. He claims, without proof, rising salaries and
perks would not draw the non-Malays into the Civil Service.
It has been official policy for three decades that the
non-Malay is discouraged from joining government services,
and once in is put to incredible blocks to ensure he does
not arise above a pre-determined rank.
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| 2001-05-15 | Tan Sri Vincent Tan Wants RM22 million from Sydney Journalist
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| 2001-05-10 | Anwar And Civil Society
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| 2001-05-06 | The Dysfunctional KLIA
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| 2001-05-03 | Smarting From Smart Technology
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| 2001-04-16 | How Rich Are Malaysian Cabinet Ministers? The ACA investigated the more blatant acquisition of
wealth of senior civil servants. The Prime Minister must
have been shocked to learn that the 50 most senior ones, in
the Civil Service, police and military, had combined assets
of what the Thai cabinet has.
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| 2001-02-25 | Blacklist On The Net It would work well for a year or two, inertia would
then set in, the updating inclemental, the policemen who do
not have the means to be computer literate care not a white,
no one cares and the system rests in a corner, a failed
monument to a leap into the modern world. The underlying
resistance in the Civil Service to speed matters which makes
people's life less hassle-free is ignored. If people can
pay their summons on line as Dato' Shahrar promises, it cuts
off the baksheesh that often gets out of a predicament.
When you negotiate for a lower sum to be paid, implicit in
it is a little bit extra for whoever does you the favour.
Bolehland insists upon the maximum fines for without that,
this extra bit would not be possible. The RTD is
notoriously ineffecient. It had to go on a campaign to root
out false driving licences. Now it promises a cutting-edge
system of finding out if you have a summons to pay. But
this involves constant and regular co-ordination between the
police and the RTD. That is as wasy as President George
Bush telephoning President Kim Jong Il for a friendly chat
about nothing.
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| 2001-02-16 | The Cult Of Mediocrity Let the deputy prime minister go on an official visit,
as he did this month to Singapore, and he would be
accompanied by sundry cabinet ministers and chief ministers
and a huge contingent of officials. Why? If he had taken a
handful of officials and politicians in his entourage he
should have set an example. As it is, most of those who
went with him went for the ride at government expense. And
he dares complain that those at the bottom of the Civil Service totem pole do not pull their weight?
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| 2001-01-18 | Remembering Tun Abdul Razak -- 25 Years Later
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| 2000-12-22 | The new A.-G: The Param And Anwar Dominoes Fall
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