Found 74 matches for Hussein Onn
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| 2005-10-20 | People can be led like sheep, but not always
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| 2005-10-19 | Saddam will be sentenced to death, but will he hang?
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| 2005-10-14 | People are the same the world over
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| 2005-10-07 | The Muslim will win in Iraq
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| 2005-10-06 | It is the crusades all over again
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| 2005-10-05 | The rules for the ruler and the ruled have changed
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| 2005-10-03 | Are the Indonesian Muslims responsible for the Bali bombings?
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| 2005-03-28 | A tryst with destiny I think he tolerated me because I would stand up to him and was not
cowed by his arrogant demeanour or his temper. By the time he
thought, wrongly as it turned out, that he, and not Dr Mahathir
Mohamad, would be deputy prime minister under Hussein Onn, I could
talk to him in confidence, and he would tell me what he would not to
others of the background to events of the day.
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| 2005-03-10 | The vigilante bigots I am attacked in the past fortnight by a young obviously well-educated
Malay lady who insists that I, as a 'pendatang' (immigrant, which I
am not), should not roil the Malay peace by raising issues that
would. She hopes all pendatang would leave, for they are a nuisance.
I asked her what would happen if the pendatang left, especially since
every one of our five prime ministers were pendatang or had pendatang
blood: Tengku Abdul Rahman (Thai), Abdul Razak Hussein (Bugis),
Hussein Onn (Circassian-English), Dr Mahathir Mohamad (Indian),
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Sino-Indian). But her objection to me is that
I am a non-Muslim pendatang.
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| 2005-02-18 | The son-in-law also rises
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| 2005-02-14 | Tun Mahathir protesteth too much Tun Hussein Onn, was likewise flung into the dung heap when Dr
Mahathir succeeded him. Yes, he was given sinecures as advisor to
Petronas, put in a gilded cage, and treated then as the good doctor
complains he is now. The battle lines were drawn when Dr Mahathir, to
contain the growing opposition to him in UMNO, had it declared
illegal by the courts, formed a new UMNO, removed his political
enemies from it, and governed for another 16 years.
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| 2005-01-25 | An Iraqi election to determine if it is anarchy or civil war after
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| 2004-12-28 | Gnawing at UMNO UMNO still cannot bring him into its consciousness, the government it
led would shower actors and lesser men with high government honours,
even posthumously, but Dato' Sir Onn Jaffar was ignored. The Malays,
especially in Johore, smarted at this, and UMNO made amends in a
backhanded way when it brought his son, Capt. Hussein Onn, who had
walked out of UMNO with his father, back into the UMNO fold and went
on to be the country's third prime minister. The education minister,
Dato' Hishamuddin Hussein, is Tun Hussein's son and Dato' Onn's
grandson.
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| 2004-09-28 | The morning after
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| 2004-09-24 | If Anwar Ibrahim is a traitor to UMNO, what about Dato' Onn, the Tengku, Tun Hussein Onn? The sycophantic and orchestrated chorus of thundering support bayed
for blood. It missed out on the details. Would Dato' Hishamuddin
Hussein, in his closing remarks tomorrow (25 September 2004), demand
other traitors to UMNO be punished too? We can start with his
grandfather, Dato' Sir Onn Jaffar, the founding president of UMNO,
who walked out of the party in 1951 to become an inexplicable foe of
UMNO, defeating an UMNO candidate to enter Parliament in 1959 on a
Party Negara ticket. What about his successor and Malaysia's first
prime minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman Putra, who refused to join UMNO
Baru in 1988 and worked to his dying breath to destroy UMNO and its
long-time president, and helped ensure that an UMNO renegade, Dato'
Shahrir Samad, be returned to parliament as an independent in the
1980s? What about his father, Tun Hussein Onn, who refused to join
UMNO after it was disbanded, and supported Dato' Shahrir in that
byelection? None were UMNO members at their death.
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| 2004-06-29 | Would Pak Lah be challenged? The first, Dato' Sir Onn Jaffar, walked out of UMNO when his plan for
a multiracial UMNO was challenged; the second, Tengku Abdul Rahman,
resigned rather than face a challenge after the 1969 general election
and the riots which followed. The third, Tun Abdul Razak, died before
his time, but if he had to leave, he would gracefully than challenge
his opponents. The fourth, Tun Hussein Onn, when challenged for the
presidency in 1978, his wings were clipped, and he made a dignified
exit three years later. The fifth, Tun Mahathir Mohamed, decided that
this was not how it should be done, insisted he is president if he
won by a single vote, and defended his ground so thoroughly and
forcefully, and put in place rules and regulations that made it all
but impossible for anyone to challenge him.
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| 2004-05-12 | The tide has turned in Iraq
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| 2004-04-04 | Democracy is a must for Malaysia, not for UMNO But Pak Lah and Dato' Seri Najib, acting the vacant posts, do not want to be challenged.
What happened in the 1978 UMNO elections is worrying enough. The then
president, Dato' (later Tun) Hussein Onn, was challenged by Dato'
Sulaiman Palestine (ironically, in the light of subsequent events,
the maternal uncle of the ousted and battered former deputy prime
minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim). About 30 per cent of the
delegates backed the challenger. This threw Tun Hussein out of gear,
the remaining three years spent in how to retreat gracefully after
this unacceptable feudal challenge. Dato' Sulaiman himself was to
claim he did not get what he was promised, and would reveal in
clinical detail to any who would listen. Rumours that it was Dr
Mahathir who put him up to it was current at the UMNO general
assembly.
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| 2004-02-05 | The Malaysian comedy of errors in the Islamic nuclear chain and the global war on terrorism
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| 2004-01-02 | Nepotism, like corruption, is a crime in Malaysia only if the wrong party is guilty of it NEPOTISM IS ALIVE AND well in Malaysia. As elsewhere in the world. When Rupert Murdoch considers who should oversee his vast business empire after him, the products of his loins get a head start. So when the Genting Highlands chieftain retires at 85. It is common in the business and financial world. In politics and in the civil service, it is frowned upon but it exists after a fashion. When one has the power to do it, why should one demur? The dynastic succession is now a political ideal as a monarchy or a commercial fact of life. Often this nepotic evidence is indirect, allowing the children of the leader to make hay while daddy (or as is as common, mummy) governs or rules. In several Asian countries, sons succeed fathers. Competence is implicit in several, but not all, of them. In Singapore, its long time Prime Minister and now senior minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, has sons and their wives in important cogs in the republic's wheel; one, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, will be prime minister before this year is out. In North Korea, Kim Chong Il succeed to the presidency when his father, Mr Kim Il Sung died in 1994. In Malaysia it varies. Two cabinet ministers owe their position to their late fathers: the second prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak, and the third, Tun Hussein Onn and their sons, Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak and Dato' Hishamuddin Tun Hussein sit in the cabinet. The DAP leader, Mr Lim Kit Siang, grooms his son, Mr Lim Guan Eng, to succeed him. It is considered a "right" to allow the children to make hay while their fathers shine.
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This archive was created as a tribute to the late veteran
journalist MGG Pillai. We believed his writings are useful to develop a critical
thinking analysis.
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