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| 2006-01-03 | The Internet - here to stay The NST is an Umno paper, or is perceived by Malaysians as one. Its
editor-in-chief has the ear of the prime minister and often selected
because of this. In these circumstances, it cannot be expected to
report as it should.
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| 2002-01-31 | The BN rejects the Punjabi party So BN then did not need PPM. But its dustbin, the People's
Progressive Party (PPP) does. Its president, Senator Dato' M.
Kayveas, asked PPM to join PPP and head into irrelevance. The
PPP cannot understand why Malaysians do not rush to join its
ranks. But if the mountain would not come to Mohamed, Mohamed
would go to the mountain. And PPP scours Indian groups -- mark
you, this multiracial party is interested only in Indians -- to
ask their members to join the party. As usual, he knows not what
he talks about.
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| 2001-01-12 | Mike Tyson To Fight In Bolehland? Promote Classics seem to believe boxing matches with
worldclass players can be arranged like you would district
boxing matches. And, like the government, it believes
Malaysians can be fashioned like cheese to accept any
rubbish offered them. It thinks Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis
would drop everything to rush to Malaysia for a boxing match
to keep fans in Malaysia happy. If it got Tyson's letter of
intent a year ago, why was it not converted into a firm
contract? Letters of intent are MOUs -- and this even
Bolehland lawyers would tell you mean nothing.
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| 2000-09-29 | Breastbeating over Malaysia Hall MALAYSIA HALL IS in the news these days. The 50-year lease on two of the
four units expires next year, and all beat their breasts in shock and
horror that this institution which evoked "pride and dignity and love and
most of all patriotism and nationalism" is to disappear for ever. It has
a honoured place in Malaysian history, the place where the first prime
minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, declared plans for independence in 1956.
Many worthies have passed through its portals. But more important, it was
a meeting place for Malaysians and others, "a beacon of hospitality", in
the gushing prose of the NST writer. But all good things must come to an
end. If all that is said about Malaysia Hall is true, why then did the
Malaysian government wait until five minutes before midnight to say that
all is lost, and Malaysia Hall must move because the rents demanded is too
exhorbitant?
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| 2000-09-12 | As You Sow, So Shall You Reap The Sipadan kidnap stand-off could not be resolved until millions of US
dollars were paid in ransom. Despite the denials, the four-month long
tortuous negotiations involved money, lots of it. The European countries
wanted their citizens out unharmed, and that they would be prepared to pay
to get them out was clear: their diplomat representatives in Kuala Lumpur
were in no doubt they would be. Malaysia had an assistant minister and a
former Sabah chief minister on hand along with sundry others, their role
widely believed to involve paying ransom. Officially, of course, they
would not pay, but when Libya came in at the tail end, when negotiations
were at an impasse, and offered to put up the sums demanded to get them
out, it left the countries off the hook. Barely a day after the last
victim was released, when the pirates struck again, this time seizing
three Malaysians from Pulau Pandanan, off the coast of Semporna; eleven
others fled into the jungle. The wide open seas in the area is barely
patrolled, and pirates can strike at random, unbeknownst to the
authorities. The officials have no clue where the men were.
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| 1997-10-23 | Why does MAS behave as it does? The problem here is MAS, like KTM has become, does not know
whether it is a Malaysian airline that happens to have
international routes, or an international airline with Malaysian
ownership. Our national policy is to cater for the foreigner, so
the local routes, heavily used by Malaysians, are run down,
whatever MAS and Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli says. You would note that
every complaint on this thread is from Malaysians. I have not
heard of foreigners being subjected to this kind of nonsensical
treatment by MAS ground or on-board staff.
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