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| 2002-03-04 | Why is Calpers pulling its funds out of Malaysia? The California Public Employees Retirement System (Calpers)
withdraws its investment funds from Malaysia, Indonesia, the
Philippines and Thailand for reasons as varied as poor Human Rights record and money. Malaysia decided it damns her, though
she would not spell it out, for the travails of that unheard,
unseen man forcibly whiling away his time in a lonely cell in
Sungei Buloh Prison. Now, Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam, the retired
civil servant and corporate worthy, in a letter to the New
Straits Times today (04 March 2002), insists US investors should
not dabble in politics, and fears other countries could follow
the US lead and skew the international financial structure. He
does not say how, but says Calpers investment strategy would make
nonsense of the long-term interests of the US and of "free and
fair international trade and finance".
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| 2002-02-27 | The Singapore Tudung Affair Masks An Internal Conflict
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| 2002-02-20 | Can Ceremah or No Can Ceremah? It is what we have come to expect. The government, unable to
control the large crowds at opposition ceremah (rallies), takes
drastic steps: it bans them forthwith. Those most affected, the
opposition political parties, attacked the government. The PAS
party president, Dato' Fadhil Noor, said it would defy the
ruling, a view other opposition parties echoed. The government
warned those who attended the illegal ceremahs they would be
arrested. Then comes the spanner in the works. The Malaysian
Human Rights Commission, Suhakam, said this general ban violated
Human Rights. Besides, no law extant allowed a blanket
ban on political ceremahs.
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| 2002-01-31 | The BN rejects the Punjabi party
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| 2002-01-26 | Blaming the foreigner for a problem closer home In the rumour-ridden Malaysian capital, there is no smoke
without fire. The sudden concern of the foreign minister and
UMNO youth leader for Human Rights of detainees in the Carribean
Gulag is in part the fear of the reports being true. Suddenly
many a cabinet minister and National Front (BN) leader fears the
truth of these rumours. The plot on the Prime Minister's life,
officially denied, is not fiction, nor it appears would be the
last. As the rumours that the weapons stolen from an army camp
in Grik have not all been recovered, and some are now in hands
which should not.
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| 2002-01-26 | Human rights and the Gulag of Guantanamo Bay Human Rights and the Gulag of Guantanamo Bay
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| 2002-01-14 | The Sun eclipses after a messy seppukku
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| 2001-12-31 | Letter in NST: The need for a racially balanced army Should there be a serious security problem in this global
setting and Human Rights era, this would invite the international
community to dispatch foreign troops to the country to protect
the unarmed communities.
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| 2001-12-13 | Condoms and The March To An Islamic State
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| 2001-12-07 | Petronas takes over the Sepang F1 Circuit
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| 2001-11-30 | The CLP fiasco: Why this Monday deadline?
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| 2001-10-25 | A Shanghai rendezvous of terror Since Washington exhorts the world to adopt democratic and
Human Rights practices it believes should be the norm, and are
quick to reaction when they are not, these countries can now look
to the US to justify torture and other disagreeable methods to
extract confessions and rein in an otherwise determined political
and other opponents. Especially when Washington adopts these
measures.
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| 2001-10-25 | A Shanghai rendezvour of terror Since Washington exhorts the world to adopt democratic and
Human Rights practices it believes should be the norm, and are
quick to reaction when they are not, these countries can now look
to the US to justify torture and other disagreeable methods to
extract confessions and rein in an otherwise determined political
and other opponents. Especially when Washington adopts these
measures.
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| 2001-10-25 | Pigs Do Fly In ISA!!! "Our" Afghanistan is committed to Human Rights, wants a
democratic government based on it, but is prevented by the
Taliban, says the Northern Alliance's embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
The Northern Alliance is known here as the Islamic state of
Afghanistan, and its embassy does, as the need arises to show it
exists, tell the world, if not Malaysia, how wonderful things are
in its bailliwick, and how the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,
more widely known as the Taliban, makes short shrift of all those
wonderful ideas Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues made it a
requirement for good governance. "Our ideology is unlike the
Talibans," it said, and the Islamic state's "broad-based and
multi-ethnic character" is proof of this commitment.
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| 2001-10-13 | The NST defines "fair and accurate" reporting
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| 2001-10-07 | Women Fight A Rearguar Battle to Temper Islam
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| 2001-10-04 | Heads MCA Loses, Tails MCA Loses
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| 2001-10-04 | Medieval Blood-Letting In Malaysia - CORRECTED
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| 2001-09-26 | A Divide In The Opposition Front
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| 2001-09-09 | The mv Tampa: Australia Shootes Herself In The Foot The political correctness Australia dispenses to the world
is challenged at home. When the prime minister, John Howard,
accused Malaysia and Indonesia of being the takeoff points of
these refuges, there was some truth to the accusation. But then
these countries allowed these refugees and those feeling from the
war on condition that they left for somewhere else as quickly as
possible. Both governments did not care where these refugees
went so long as they left their territories. Whether there is
official collusion is besides the point. The Australian reaction
to the refugees must embarass the government, quick to prescribe
politically correct Human Rights remedies for the rest of the
world but reacts in high dudgeon when it refers to her.
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