Found 123 matches for Open House
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| 2004-12-21 | Fleas under the UMNO blanket Whatever he does is a political issue. He visits Pak Lah at his Open House in Kepala Batas, in Penang, and deputy prime minister Najib
Razak gets political ischemia. He is in Jakarta when Najib is there
on an official visit, and corners the headlines; this frustrated
Najib so that he requested his host, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, to
ask for more media coverage. The latest issue of the Indonesian
weekly, TEMPO, interviews Anwar at depth, one of several high profile
events that had UMNO, Najib and the embassy in Jakarta tearing their
hair in frustration. Najib forgot he got a higher profile in Jakarta
than he would in Malaysia's main newspapers, and if Anwar had not
visited Jakarta at the same time, it would not have made much
difference.
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| 2004-12-07 | Breaking the mould ?So when Parti Keadilan Rakyat hosted a Deepavali Open House at the
Girl Guides' Hall in Brickfields, with its eminence grace, Anwar
Ibrahim on hand, the hall was packed to capacity, perhaps 5,000
turned up, in a continuous flow of people, with the hall packed at
all times with about 2,000.
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| 2004-11-25 | Deus et machina Contrast this with the crowds of the man of the moment, Anwar Ibrahim.
A special branch officer among the guests, and no doubt on duty,
thought 12,500 were at the Open House, and possibly 20,000 the day.
Even that is an exaggeration. it was crowded, but there was not the
space to accommodate even the official estimates to prove it a
failure. The toilet room joke of big is better is now anchored in
politics.
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| 2004-11-23 | Pak Sheikh has an Open House I reflect on this every time I attend an Open House, be it Muslim,
Hindu, Christian, Buddhist. It is not what it was, it is not what it
ought be, what is how degraded it has become. You would not see UMNO
politicians in PAS Open Houses, UMNO leaders in DAP houses, IPF
invited to MIC houses, DAP leaders in MCA houses, and vice-versa.
When you do see someone who, in our political apartheid, should not
be, we are aghast to wonder why. Has he quarrelled with his political
masters? Is he about to switch political allegiances? Why? The
political, social, cultural, religious divisions tear our country
apart as surely as it does Malta, where even the Roman Catholicism of
its citizens is asunder by politics. Open Houses in Malaysia do not
narrow the divide but widen it.
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| 2004-11-18 | The Pied Piper of Permatang Pauh He made his political move dramatically by holding his Hari Raya Open House in Cherok Tok Kun in Permatang Pauh, on the same day as Pak
Lah, and confounded everyone, including Pak Lah, by first calling on
his predecessor as deputy prime minister. It threw Umno out of line.
He had earlier ruled out turning up at the cabinet Open House at the
Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur: he did not want to shake
hands with those cabinet ministers who he believes are responsible
for his downfall and humiliation, and whom he would not forgive and
forget.
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| 2004-09-28 | The morning after
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| 2004-09-03 | Dato' Seri Anwar emerges into the spotlight, his reputation and instincts burnished
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| 2004-07-27 | Weakness in strength
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| 2004-06-23 | Is it UMNO or its leaders who are worried about the divisions, factions and camps within?
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| 2004-06-17 | Pak Lah wants to corner the UMNO nominations for president and deputy president
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| 2004-03-24 | The BN crosses the Rubicon with this General Election
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| 2003-12-09 | Pak Lah girds his troops as UMNO flounders en route to the general election When I met Dato' Ibrahim recently at a Hari Raya Open House recently, he was hellfire and brimstone personifed. He had changed sides now, reminded me of how he had changed the political landscape in 1990, and intends to do so again. He has announced plans to arrive in Kota Bharu and be greeted by tens of thousands of those who are upset he is sidelined. He can do it. The UMNO response to it is one of fear. One columnist in the mainstream media saw it as divisive and fears UMNO could be the loser. He is right, of course. If this is mishandled, UMNO can forget about returning to office in Kelantan for a few more general elections. If Pak Lah wanted to improve UMNO's electoral chances in that state, he made all the wrong decisions. The UMNO liaison chief is the well-regarded backroom boy but a hopeless politician, Dato' Mustapha Mohamed, and if the rhetoric is to be believed, the new mentri besar. He has sidelined the one man who can return Kelantan to UMNO, Tengku Razaleigh. Similarly, Pak Lah must erase the Anwar residue in Penang, so he religiously roots out any who is linked in any way to the UMNO ghost in Sungei Buloh. Which is why he must remain where he is. Dato' Seri Anwar is so dangerous out of harm's way; how more dangerous would he be when he campaigns in Penang and elsewhere? Besides, it would be another needless confrontation Pak Lah could do without.
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| 2003-12-08 | The Kelantan UMNO chief is angry at PAS's implied support for sacked leaders So, true to form, the Kelantan UMNO chief, Dato' Mustapha Mohamed, is angry and frustrated that, true to form, PAS acts as an opposing political party should to to make UMNO's state to be more parlous than it is. He accuses PAS of wanting to split UMNO by harping on the four dismissals. What did PAS do? It put up buntings, distributed pamphlets and even provided a forum for the four former UMNO leaders to vent their frustrations at what happened. Dato' Mustapha, brilliant as he is and an asset in any government, is nevertheless of a disposition that if we were to talk to a gathering of rats that a marauding cats were after them, the rats would rather stay and wait to be devoured. He is so disbelievable before a political crowd. "UMNO has proof," he thundered during an UMNO leader's Hari Raya Open House, that PAS supporters are behind this covert operation to make it look as if those who were dropped had put up the buntings and distributed the pamphlets."
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| 2003-10-15 | The Speaker now joins the flawed officials of the Mahathir epoch
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| 2003-10-01 | The BN attacks the Opposition to shoot itself in the foot as it considers early elections
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| 2003-09-26 | What official expenses do BN cabinet ministers and MPs claim?
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| 2003-09-10 | The BN is caught in a trap of its own making in Sabah
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| 2003-07-16 | The Perlis mentri besar has another 'original idea'
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| 2003-07-14 | Why does Malaysia need a counter-terrorism centre?
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| 2003-06-13 | The 'nobody' who led the Malays in their 'darkest' hour
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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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