The government’s move to review the ban on this toxic pesticide seems to imply that industries’ profits matter more than the health of plantation workers, says Jennifer Mourin.
Feb 162007
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Jan 272007
Delayed and distorted justice in Malaysia goes against the very Islamic values that the present government seems to be promoting, points out Mustafa Kamal Anuar. Quoting chapter and verse from the Qur’an to show the importance of justice in Islam, he says its about time that PM Abdullah walked the talk.
Jan 262007
The most indisputable fact is that we were once at par with Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea in 1970 when the NEP was first introduced, writes Koon Yew Yin.
Jan 252007
These are dark days indeed, literally speaking. Wong Soak Koon pines for the days not-so-long ago that were not so crazy and hazy.
Jan 242007
The volunteer corps' crackdown on undocumented foreigners is not a war on terror; it is a war on defenceless migrants, observes Romany.
Jan 242007
Persecuted and tortured at home in Burma, Chin refugees in Malaysia are at constant risk of harassment, arrest, detention and deportation, writes Amy Alexander.
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Jan 232007
Francis Loh looks at the silly season in Malaysia, full of odd events such as the Mahathir-Abdullah spat and the Zakaria (pic) mansion fiasco. He discovers that we are stuck between the old politics of ethnicity and patronage and the new democratic politics of accountability and justice.
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Jan 232007
It was Mahathir himself who laid the foundations to the ‘police state’ he himself bemoans today, points out Farish Noor.
Jan 122007
Thais may accept military rule for short-term stability after the excesses of the authoritarian former premier Thaksin, who was toppled by a military coup in September 2006. But the longer the military remains, the less patient the people will be, observes Francis Loh.
Jan 112007
The retraction of the Asli report was a major setback for the national mission to create a “first class mentality”, says Lim Kit Siang.