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Found 98 matches for Syed Hamid
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| 2001-04-13 | Hiding Under The Skirt Of National Security
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| 2001-02-13 | Revised - Malaysia-Singapore Ties: We Give And They Take The Malaysian government is split asunder from within,
and cannot take decisions, especially with foreign
countries, without harming the country's interest. The
Abdullah visit has. What he intended to achieve by the
visit was not thought through, while what Singapore wanted
to tell Malaysia was. The foreign minister, Dato' Seri Syed Hamid Albar, pontificated about neighbours sharing a common
history and past, and how unresolved bilateral issues had
soured the relationship. The visit did not resolve these
issues, either individually or collectively. Since we now
negotiate from weakness, bilateral amity would come only
with further surrenders. No amount of expressions of good
faith or common historial past can change that.
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| 2001-02-12 | Malaysia-Singapore Ties: We Give And They Take The Malaysian government is split asunder from within,
and cannot take decisions, especially with foreign
countries, without harming the country's interest. The
Abdullah visit has. What he intended to achieve by the
visit was not thought through, while what Singapore wanted
to tell Malaysia was. The foreign minister, Dato' Seri Syed Hamid Albar, pontificated about neighbours sharing a common
history and past, and how unresolved bilateral issues had
soured the relationship. The visit did not resolve these
issues, either individually or collectively. Since we now
negotiate from weakness, bilateral amity would come only
with further surrenders. No amount of expressions of good
faith or common historial past can change that.
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| 2001-02-03 | Is Malay Rights Threatened? UMNO Kayveases are behind this Malay unity rally.
Having lost elections or emerging from the fringes of
national politics, they seek the Andy Warholean 15 minutes
of fame. But surely that is not enough to attract a crowd,
let alone of 10,000. The 60-year-old leader of the
Malaysian Association of Youth Clubs who doubles up as the
country's foreign minister, Dato' Seri Syed Hamid Albar,
does want Malays from his umbrella organisation to take
part. Attending this forum reflects a racist intolerance
which is not what MAYC preaches. He says, if obliquely, the
MAF gathering is racist, intolerant, could afflict peace and
stability. It is rare for a minister to march headstrong
into trouble. "MAYC affiliates have no racial distinctions
and is an NGO that desires to have nothing to do with
political issues," he said. Since UMNO members
traditionally controlled MAYC, this is an open challenge to
the MAF organisers.
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| 2001-01-30 | CHIRAOSCURO: A Storm In A Teacup Wisma Putra, Malaysia's foreign ministry, summons the
Singapore high commissioner, K. Kesavapany, last week to
protest the remarks. But it was quickly hushed up. The
foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, said what Goh said
queered the pitch for better ties. He left it at that. He
could not milk this for what it was politically worth, for
Mr Goh's remarks showed up the different worldviews towards
governance in Malaysia and Singapore.
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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 was in Myanmar last week, met Gen. Than
Shwe, the head of state, and left on a sailing holiday
around the Andaman Islands. We are told, though, he was in
south Myanmar all the while. Unusually, no ministers, not
even the foreign minister, Dato' Syed Hamid Albar,
accompanied him, only officials. But his visit is an
elaborate mask to mull over his new cabinet. He sails on a
superluxury yacht of a tottering Bolehland tycoon, and again
rumours, he returns this week in it, and is expected to
return today in it.
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| 2000-12-22 | The new Attorney-General Takes a Wrong Turn
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| 2000-12-22 | Is A State Of Emergency On The Cards? The foreign minister, Dato' Seri Syed Hamid Albar,
meanwhile, plays to the Malay gallery, to taunt, not
mollify. The federation of Peninsular Malay Students, GPMS,
wants to explain its 100 demands, its answer to Suqiu's, to
a crowd of 100,000 in the Klang Vally and in smaller groups
throughout the country. If it does, it needs police
permits. This is where the government is caught. If it
gets its permits, as the opposition Barisan Alternatif did
not for its gathering in Klang last month, not only the
police but also the home minister, one Dato' Seri Abdullah
Ahmad Badawi, would lose further face. This is why the
deputy home minister, Dato' Chor Chee Heung, pleads with
GPMS not to proceed.
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| 2000-12-10 | Corruption And The Judiciary
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| 2000-10-21 | A Judge Attends A Birthday Party
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| 2000-10-09 | Islam And The Marriage Certificate
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| 2000-08-23 | From Chief Justice-To-Be To Attorney-General-That-Was
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| 1999-12-25 | Kharaj, Hudud, Harakah and His Master's Voice
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| 1999-11-22 | Public Intellectuals and Punditry
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| 1999-11-03 | English College Johore Bahru: Rewriting History
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| 1999-04-28 | The Best Laid Plans of Men and Mice
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| 1998-12-02 | Shi'ites and Reformasi Rallies
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