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Found 132 matches for Royal Commission
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| 2006-02-02 | Did the US invade Iraq to set up a military base in the Middle East?
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| 2006-01-17 | The National Front does what it says it will not do
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| 2006-01-16 | Two prime ministers as different as chalk and cheese There has been rumours of a crackdown of dissidents and critics. This
is heard while Malaysians are told that Pak Lah has allowed freedom
of expression more than his predecessor. Party, as it turns out, the
Malaysian government makes mistakes, when it is out of its hands. The
Inspector-General of Police beat the former deputy prime minister,
Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, to a pulp, while the police insisted he was
safe and sound. The police told the truth only to a Royal Commission
of inquiry. The home minister went to Beijing to apologise for a
Malay girl forced to do the nude squat. The nude squat is illegal,
but that is not addressed. Several police commissions, have been held
after police abuse came to light, but the only result is a salary
increase. Pak Lah makes trite comments in the meanwhile, not
realising that the system has all collapsed. A headmaster tells a
Sikh boy to shave; instead of throwing the book at him for breaching
government policy, the official statement from Kuala Lumpur is for
him to make peace with the boy. There is the question of amendments
to laws that have not been initiated into law. Muslim women are given
lower status than men; the Lower House of Parliament passed it, but
the women senators raised such a ruckus that three cabinet ministers
were needed to promise them an amendment removing what they did not
like soon afterwords. And religious conversions that only the
religious departments know of.
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| 2006-01-07 | Wealth, privilege and politics
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| 2005-12-21 | The National Front is confused
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| 2005-12-13 | The Pengkalen Pasir byelection is faulty because of Malay Dominance
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| 2005-12-09 | More postal votes were cast than allowed in Pengkalen Pasir
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| 2005-12-04 | The National Front government in sixes and sevens over the Chinese tourist It is a fact that tourists from Asia and Africa are harassed. That to
officialdom does not matter since the citizen in this country is also
harassed. The nude 'ear squats' by women is not new. Police use it
regularly to harass non-Caucasian tourists, and those it perceives
are the enemy of government. Whatever the authorities say, it does
exist. Malaysians and tourists have stepped forward to say they have
been victims in the past. The authorities admit the police does it.
It has set up a commission of inquiry, but they have refused to have
on it opposition MPs, those who have a contrary view, and it comes
after a Royal Commission of inquiry which showed the police could not
be trusted. It had denied until it said in its report that the former
deputy prime minister, Dato' Anwar Ibrahim, had been beaten to a pulp
by the then Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Rahim Noor. The
present crisis is not discussed in Parliament. It wants to resolve it
in such a way it is exculpated. The authorities' attitude is that it
is alone against the world. They have in the past harassed the public
and they had taken courage that the public had kept quiet. The public
is only to elect in the National Front so that it could harrass or
sideline them. That is evident in Pengkalen Pasir, where two receipts
are distributed to show the BN Bilek Gerakan (operations centre).
This has not been denied, but it is investigating who bought the
drinks which is giving the National Front a bad name. A small version
of that happens in Kuala Lumpur about Chinese tourists not visiting
Malaysia!
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| 2005-11-18 | Why is Tun Ghafar's grave dug when he is still alive?
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| 2005-10-21 | The power of rumours, and where Malaysia went wrong
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| 2005-09-04 | Malaysia is as reponsible as Thailand for the situation in southern Thailand
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| 2005-06-22 | What is a tun worth?
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| 2005-05-19 | The Thirty Four Million ringgit police man THE Royal Commission ON THE POLICE issues a damning report. The police
are corrupt, abusive, high-hand, obsolete, behind the times, stuck in
a groove, take the law into their hands. So damning that it
recommends 125 possible ways to revamp it to what it should be: as
guardians of law and order. It reveals corruption so bad that one
police officer admits to assets of RM34 million. This is but a tip of
the iceberg. It strains credulity that only one police officer is
corrupt in a police force that is now shown in an official
investigation to be gangsters in uniform. But how is this rectified?
The cabinet will, of course, discuss each recommendation "in depth";
the Prime Minister is concerned at its contents – which suggests
something more sinister, that as the political head of the police
force he did not know, and was kept in the dark, what the report
revealed; the deputy prime minister says the police, not the
government, should look into it. In other words, the official
reaction is a prelude to official inaction. Let a few months pass by,
and it is back to business as usual in the police force.
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| 2005-04-20 | Heads must roll in this national security caper Only a Royal Commission can correct this intelligence failure, with
some sessions necessarily held in secret. Pak Lah and Dato' Seri
Najib are at each other's political throats that the country runs on
autopilot, with national secrets available to the highest bidder. The
former deputy prime minister, Tun Ghafar Baba, did not mince his
words in Kota Bharu over the weekend. He said since corruption is
deep-rooted and widespread in BN, with hundreds millions of ringgit
changing hands before a party or general elections, he proposed that
cabinet and party posts be tendered and given to the highest bidder,
the money paid into the Treasury. Once in office, they should tell
the Anti-Corruption Agency how they came to this undeclared wealth.
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| 2005-04-10 | A political party loses its way
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| 2004-12-31 | The collapse, through gross negligence, of the national disaster systems and centres
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| 2004-11-25 | Deus et machina But he has to watch his back. The fear of a political assassination,
like Ninoy Aquino in the Philippines, could be real. He could face
one in this continuing conflict between money and principle, though
it is limited: for one, the reaction now could well be worse than in
1998, the bare details of that could only be deduced through a Royal Commission; anything that happens to him now could only be played out
in public.
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| 2004-09-01 | The dangerous fallout from Kuala Berang
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| 2004-08-13 | MGG on ABC Asia Pacific TV on Pak Lah as Prime Minister Steven Gan: In fact the Election Commission, their chief immediately
after the May 21 election did actually call openly for a Royal Commission into the Election Commission. However this was brushed
aside by Badawi.
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| 2004-08-03 | The politics of integration
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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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