Malaysian universities have again fallen out of the top 200 universities in the latest QS World University Rankings 2010, with University of Malaya falling from last year’s ranking of 180 to 207.

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Malaysian universities falling out of top 200 universities in QS World University Rankings 2010 latest proof that Najib’s NEM are just empty words…

A war of words have broken out between the outgoing Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan one the one hand and the Ministry of Home Affairs represented by the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and the Home Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Seri Mahmood Adam on the other. Since Hishammuddin’s announcement that there will not

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Not too late to suspend Musa Hassan as IGP with his honourable discharge subject to full investigations into his dereliction of duties and serious…

By M. Bakri Musa Chapter 4: Modern Model States The Relevant Lessons For Malaysia (Cont’d) Moving on to South Korea, it is an example of what sheer determination, discipline, and an obsession with learning and education could do for a nation. When General Park took over, he whipped the nation into strict discipline and regimentation,

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Malaysia in the Era of Globalization #31

BATON ROUGE — Gregory Stone, director of LSU’s WAVCIS Program and also of the Coastal Studies Institute in the university’s School of the Coast & Environment, disagrees with published estimates…

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LSU’s WAVCIS director says oil remains below surface, will come ashore in pulses

In the midst of a difficult fire season in many parts of the world, the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online fire detection system that will help…

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NASA satellite data aid United Nations’ ability to detect global fire hotspots

Home ministry denies Musa’s ‘interference’ claim By Yow Hong Chieh | Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — The home ministry today denied it had meddled in police matters, as claimed by outgoing Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Musa Hassan yesterday. Home ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Mahmood Adam explained that the ministry’s involvement in

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IGP and Home Ministry – A castle very divided

By NURUL IZZAH ANWAR Since I wrote my 31 August 2010 article, titled “The Ultimate Malaysian Debate: Malaysia or Malaysaja?”, which called for a constructive engagement with Perkasa, and with the stated purpose to seek clarification and not challenge or repeal the constitution, my invitation to Perkasa has not only been rejected but countless accusations

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Malaysia or Malaysaja? Part 2: Clarifying and reconciling the Constitution

Perak: MB, BN Adun open to similar illegal DVD charge By Clara Chooi | The Malaysian Insider IPOH, Sept 7 — With a Perak DAP assemblyman facing the possibility of being charged in court for his unapproved DVD production, the authorities seem to have found themselves caught in a Catch-22 situation. Questions now center on

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Double standards on ‘illegal’ DVD charge

In conjunction with celebrating both the National Day and the Malaysia Day, a forum featuring the following speakers will be held on: Date: 8 Sept 2010 (Wednesday) Time: 8 pm Venue: Crystal Crown Hotel, 12 Lorong Utara A (Off Jalan Utara), Petaling Jaya, Selangor Speakers: 1) Hannah Yeoh – State Assemblyperson for Subang Jaya 2)

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Forum: What Does It Mean to be Malaysian?

The common response to my suggestion yesterday that the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak should propose to the Cabinet meeting tomorrow a nation-wide “Say No to Racism” campaign headed by him to give flesh to his 1Malaysia slogan and policy as well as his “Zero tolerance for Racism” declaration is one of skepticism and

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Is there any Minister concerned enough about the escalating rhetoric of race and religion to propose in Cabinet tomorrow a “Say No to Racism”…

By Tom Burridge BBC World News America, Helsinki Last year more than 100 foreign delegations and governments visited Helsinki, hoping to learn the secret of their schools’ success. In 2006, Finland’s pupils scored the highest average results in science and reading in the whole of the developed world.

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Why do Finland’s schools get the best results?

By Thomas Lee It is nearly a month since the controversial racist remarks allegedly made by Johor school principal Siti Inshah Mansor on 12 August 2010 was highlighted in the media, but no action has so far been taken on the case. On the contrary, the case involving 27-year-old rapper Wee Meng Chee, popularly known

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Zero tolerance for racism or zero action?

Although the Director-General of Education Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom has issued a circular dated August 26 to all school principals and teachers warning of action to be taken for racist remarks in schools, the absence of action against the two school principals in Johore and Kedah who had made racist remarks stands out like

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Is Najib prepared to put his 1Malaysia policy to the test by leading a nation-wide “Say No to Racism” campaign starting with errant Umno leaders,…

The rise and frequency of instances of racial and religious slurs in the public domain particularly on the social media and the Internet must be a matter of grave concern to all Malaysians. All right-thinking Malaysians regardless of political affiliation should join hands to call and work for a return of civility, reason and rationality

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Call for return of civility, reason and rationality in public discourse and an end to any form of racial or religious slurs in public domain…

By Tunku Abdul Aziz I hardly ever receive presents because, I suppose, I rarely ever give any. I do not even bother to celebrate my own birthday; it comes and goes completely unnoticed. When on the odd occasion I do receive a present for delivering an anti-corruption and ethical governance speech, I treasure it even

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Seeing the back of Musa: An answer to a prayer

By Lim Teck Ghee More than five years have passed since the Asli corporate study report revealed that Bumiputera ownership of corporate equity in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange had exceeded the 30 per cent target. The study’s findings of a 45 per cent Bumiputera share were based on a different method of measurement compared

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Revisiting the Bumiputera corporate equity issue

By Thomas Lee Professor Stephen William Hawking, the author of the 1988 runaway world best seller A Brief History of Time, has declared the dreadful finality that there is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe. Britain’s most famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist had asserted previously that a belief in

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No place for God?

The Brazilians have lately been looking north for opportunities. For our own good, we ought to return the favour When Stephen Harper called an election in September 2008, he did more than kick off the political soap opera that would end in prorogation. Lost amid the campaigning and the spectre of a BQ-approved..

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Brazilian Blind Spot by Christopher Frey

At Mars on Earth, on Canada’s Devon Island, researchers prepare for space travel’s worst dangers In April 1961, Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, the sole physician on the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition, fell ill. In just a few days’ time, nausea and fever gave way to what he described as..

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No One Can Hear You Scream by Ivan Hansen

Survivorman’s Les Stroud taps into our twenty-first-century malaise and finds TV gold On the very first episode of Survivorman, Les Stroud confidently paddles downstream into the patch of Northern Ontario boreal forest where he’ll spend the next seven nights surviving on his… Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com

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Modern Primitive by Nicholas Hune-Brown