Australian-owned company Lynas is quietly shipping rare earth to a processing plant in Malaysia – without a firm plan in place to dispose of dangerous radioactive waste. Wendy Bacon reports.
Dec 172012
Dec 172012
Can we call ourselves a sovereign nation when negotiations for the neoliberal Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement have been kept secret from the rakyat, asks Ronald Benjamin.
Dec 152012
Today, St Xavier’s Institution celebrates the 160th anniversary of the La Salle Brothers’ landing in Penang in 1852 to take over this mission school. P Ramakrishnan pays tribute to Brother Charles Levin, who arrived in the school over a hundred years later in 1954. His was a total dedication and complete commitment to his calling.
Dec 142012
No priority is given to those who have chosen the most eco-friendly, non-polluting and healthy means of travel, laments Angeline Loh.
Dec 142012
The magic of Gandhi is that his actions and ideas on how to fight injustice or spearhead change are universal and still relevant today, says K Kesavapany.
Dec 132012
It is only the beginning of the struggle, says Tommy Thomas. There are many battles to engage in.
Dec 132012
Finger-pointing at the outsiders of Kuantan as a way of locating the cause of doubts, as the Pahang Chief Minister did, is as much a figure of speech as it can be a literal action, says Mustafa K Anuar.
Dec 122012
Using what is learned from history as a catalyst for change might save our lives and preserve and develop what we have and know for the education of subsequent generations, observes Rakyat Jelata.
Dec 112012
in our darkest thoughts we fear that the system is itself corrupt to the core and it relies on public/official tenets of ethics and decency as a façade, writes Alwyn Lau.
Dec 102012
As we observe Human Rights Day, Angeline Loh looks back at a year that has seen an upsurge of institutionalised and other violence.