Found 149 matches for Indian Congress
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| 2003-04-12 | Damned if you do, damned if you don't
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| 2003-03-25 | Malaysia apologises to India, but what caused it?
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| 2003-03-14 | Political gangsters or how to wash dirty linen in public? Dato' Ong touched a raw nerve. Even Dr Ling is often seen in
the company of reputed gangsters; one who was killed recently in
a restaurant in the Imbi area of Kuala Lumpur was close to Dr
Ling and his preferred successor, Dato' Ong Ka Ting; indeed, the
latter sponsored his citizenship. But the use of gangsters in
Malaysian politics is not new. The Malaysian Indian Congress
(MIC) president, Dato' Seri S. Samy Vellu, would pack MIC
meetings with gangsters to prevent members from speaking their
minds. Gangsters now turn up at UMNO meetings. Gangsters are in
politics only because the stakes are so high. Party leaders
cannot afford to be defeated, for a defeat withdraws their perks
of office, also known as corruption, nanjam, rasuah, coffee or
tea money. No one talks of it. Pak Lah dismisses these reports of
corruption amongst the high and might as anecdotal. Cabinet
ministers openly challenge those who accuse them of corruption to
prove their case.
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| 2003-03-13 | Is there a crackdown on Indian IT professionals in Malaysia?
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| 2003-01-18 | A Nation of Ten Monarchies and Ten Thousand Republics
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| 2003-01-12 | Would the Indian diaspora fall to a marketing ploy?
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| 2003-01-07 | Workers' Rights? Give Me A Volvo Instead!
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| 2002-12-26 | No Honour Amongst Trade Unionists This BN-induced general lassitude on Malaysia now threatens
to destroy it. Every institution of any relevance in Malaysia is
devalued to a degree unimagineable only two decades ago. To
bring it back to what it was is as tedious as to let it slide
into irrelevance and oblivion. The MTUC likewise has given up
the ghost, and rush headlong into irrelevance and disaster.
Elections are held so leaders can be freely elected. In
Malaysia, it is so the leaders can be returned unopposed.
Leaders go to any length to ensure they would not have to be
tested. Hardly a party leader in BN or, for that matter, the
opposition, is challenged, or elected in a free election.
Several have been in office for 20 years and more. The DAP's Lim
Kit Siang has been in office since 1969. A decade behind is the
Malaysian Indian Congress's Dato' Seri S. Samy Vellu. The other
political leaders come after them. But all had been elected
unopposed. It is not a good advertisement for democracy in
Malaysian electable institutions.
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| 2002-11-13 | How Britain Divided The Races During The Malayan Emergency
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| 2002-10-17 | The Bali bombing: The world held to ransom
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| 2002-10-14 | The Bali Blast and Its Links to Al Qaida
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| 2002-10-08 | Ask what you need, if you know you cannot get it If you go by the rantings of the National Front (BN) court jester
and buffoon-in-chief, the Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia and the
Malaysian Indian Congress had better beware. The president of
the forgettable PPP, Dato' M. Kayveas, is on the warpath -- and
after their parliamentary and state assembly representation. He
wants their parliamentary and state seats. No less. At its 49th
annual general meeting on Sunday (06 Oct '02), he made three
impossible demands: 21 seats in Parliament and 32 in the state
assemblies; compulsory study in schools of Malay, Mandarin,
Tamil and English as the first step towards a united Bangsa
Malaysia.
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| 2002-10-07 | A Multiracial Token In A Racial (and Racist) Society
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| 2002-09-28 | Leadership by osmosis and the decline of the Malaysian state He sets the trend in the National Front (BN). The parties
in it elect their leaders as UMNO does, by a curious osmosis in
which only the current leader would be elected. Challengers and
others are sidelined, expelled, or otherwise prevented from
challenging the leader; their supporters and backers suddenly
find financial and other pressures bearing upon them; some are
threatened with bankruptcy. The Malaysian Indian Congress
leader, Dato' Seri S. Samy Vellu, as deputy president, succeeded
the then MIC president, Tan Sri V. Manickavasagam, who died
suddenly in 1978. He has been returned unopposed since, the
challengers browbeaten into submission, and sometimes driven out
of the party. He now insists he is the only hope of the Indian
community, and demands a lien on it and his cabinet post. He
curries favour with the prime minister-in-waiting, to press his
luck. In Sarawak, the Sarawak National Party (SNAP)'s
octogeneraian president would rather the party be destroyed than
allow some one other than him be elected its leader.
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| 2002-08-25 | AIMST or More Indian Labourers? THE MALAYSIAN Indian Congress president, Dato' Seri (Dr) S. Samy
Vellu, continues to peddle half-truths and half-lies over the
Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST). The
AIMST has nothing to do with the MIC -- its shareholders being
two Samy Vellu cronies with 60 per cent of the sharecapital and a
Malay with 40 per cent -- yet, he says MIC initiated it. In his
mind, that is as good an MIC project as there can be --
especially when there is money to be made in the hundreds of
millions of ringgit in constructing it.
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| 2002-08-20 | The BN Court Jester Provides The Comic Relief
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| 2002-08-16 | English And The Cultural Imperative
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| 2002-08-04 | Is MIC's AIMST A Mist Or A Must?
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| 2002-07-26 | The MIC's Indian Rope Trick In Education THE MALAYSIAN TAMIL MONTHLY, Semparuti (Hibiscus), in June asked
critical questions about the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)'s
proposed Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology
(AIMST) in Kedah. It wondered whether MIC could proceed with
AMIST if fundamental student grievances -- untrained lecturers,
indifferent management, poor or no facilities, over
regimentation, refusal to resolve grievances -- in another
institute it owns and runs, Tafe College in Seremban, remains
un-addressed. The reports hit a raw nerve.
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| 2002-07-22 | Some Home Truths Told In Deafening Silence Dr Mahathir's sweet-sour comment and how it was received
reveals another grim reality: Not knowing how to turn the clock
back and erase what should not have happened in September 1998,
all BN and UMNO could is brazen their way through. But even that
is difficult going. BN and UMNO deny it, but their difficulty is
doubly worsened by how the former UMNO deputy president and
former deputy prime minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, was
humiliated. The Prime Minister now rides rode rough shod ofver
one of the BN's solemn principles: he wants the Indian
Progressive Front and KIMMA, the Malaysian Muslim Indian Congress, into the BN hold, and the MIC cannot, as heretofore,
object. The BN and UMNO is in a Macbethian dilemma, steeped in
it so far that it is as tedious to move forward as return.
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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.
By the way, the original mggpillai.com web site (2001-2006) was actually created
by one of us.
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