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| 2001-08-19 | The Mentris Besar And Forest Reserves
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| 2001-07-16 | Strains In the Likas Byelection in Sabah
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| 2001-05-06 | The Dysfunctional KLIA We are now told of this ERL train that would be ready
in a year. The cost is RM35 one-way, cheaper, we are told,
than the taxi fare. But to anyone wanting to go to Johore Bahru or Singapore, that is what it would cost him if he
travelled by train. And reach without hassles or
aggravation. The construction of the ERL is delayed because
the partners could not agree who should build what. With a
Sibling's intercession, it is all settled. But the train is
still not ready.
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| 2001-04-12 | When Back Pain Is Political, Not Medical Nor Surgical Dato' Seri Anwar's medical problems is now inherently
political. He says he would pay for it himself. But the
government is afraid he would return. There is no doubt
about it. But can it afford that? When Ninoy Aquino and
the Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile, the politics of
their countries, the Philippines and Iran, changed for ever.
Can the government contend with 500,000 thousand people at
the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on hand to greet him
from his surgery? Or if that is barred, he decides to
return by train, making his appearance at every stop? The
government could stop that by arresting him when the train
reached Johore Bahru, or even when he lands in Singapore.
But can it prevent crowds from gathering at police stations
along the way in the hope of catching a glimpse of him.
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| 2001-02-08 | Harakah: The Cracks Widen in UMNO
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| 2001-02-03 | Is Malay Rights Threatened?
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| 2001-01-18 | CHIAROSCURO" The New Cabinet: The Mountains Roar ...
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| 2001-01-09 | The Prime Minister Mulls Over His New Cabinet The Prime Minister's sudden visit to the Sultan of
Johore in Johore Bahru before he left for Myanmar has, it is
rumoured, to do with a replacement for Dato' Hamid Othman.
He had all along wanted the Mufti of Johore as his religious
affairs minister but he had not cleared this appointment
with the sultan; so Dato' Hamid Othman was appointed. The
mufti has an aggressive anti-PAS view of Islam and is
brought in for that. If he is not appointed, Brig.-Gen.
Hamid Zainal Abidin, a retired imam of the armed forces,
could well be. He is now so unpopular with the Masjid
Negara congregation that when he occasionally delivers the
Friday sermon, the worshippers just walk away.
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| 2000-12-04 | The MCA Is Visionless About Vision Schools
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| 2000-10-10 | Semantics And The Dead Child
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| 2000-09-04 | The Second Bridge And Singapore THE JOHORE mentri besar, Dato' Abdul Ghani Othman, finally admits the
absence of a Malaysian-Singapore agreement hinders the building of the new
second bridge to replace the Causeway. The proposed RM1.5 billion
Southern International Gateway is planned without consulting Singapore,
which having built its customs, immigration and quarantine centre at
Woodlands to cater for Malaysians coming through Johore Bahru, is not
about to see its investment to waste. While the gateway is seen as yet
another sign of necessary modernity, the commercial and political fallout
of the Gelang Patah link to Singapore, so under-used that often the car
that drives through is the only one in sight over the bridge, makes the
destruction of the causeway necessary. That would, while the bridge is
built, make it the only gateway to Singapore. This could well destroy
Johore Bahru's present role, but is that more important than some business
men making all that money? It is then the congestion at the causeway
provided the excuse for the gateway.
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| 1999-12-13 | Former Malacca Chief Minister "honoured" at his demotion
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| 1999-11-03 | English College Johore Bahru: Rewriting History The New Straits Times today has a potted history of the English College
(or Maktab Sultan Abu Bakar) which does not do justice either to its
history or its role in the growth of education in Johore, and Malaysia.
It began, as the piece notes, in 1914. At that time, only government
servants could send their children to government schools, and the intake
until the mid-1920s were Malays. The reorganisation in 1928 after Mr
H.R. Cheesman was appointed inspector of schools opened its doors for
the first time to children of those not in government service. This
accounts for why many prominent Collegians -- Tun Hussein Onn, Tan Sri
Philip Kuok, his brother, Robert -- began their early education at
the Johore Bahru Convent. The English College was part of the
Macaulayian desire for schools to train clerks to be subordinates to the
British administration. It was in that connexion that these changes
surfaced.
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| 1999-05-24 | Yet Another Privatisation Divides The Spoils
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| 1998-10-11 | The Anwar Saga: The demonstrations continue unabated
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| 1997-10-06 | The unmaking of Dato' Hishamuddin Onn
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| 1997-09-26 | Haze: Burning forests to create plantations
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| 1997-07-22 | Should roads be closed for an MB attending a Bolehland function? (How the restaurant celebrated its 13th anniversary is pure
Bolehland genius: the owner had worked in a restaurant of that name
in the Antipodes, and he added the age of that restaurant when he
left, and he got 13. The second question that comes to my mind: Why
13? The then UMNO secretary-general (and my dear friend and
classmate), Dato' Mohamed Rahmat, showed the way: He decided to
celebrate, in as grand a manner as was possible, the 41st anniversary
of UMNO's founding in Johore Bahru. If he could, why not the
restaurant owner?)
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