Yesterday, the Education Ministry released the Top 10 students and the Top 10 Schools for Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2009 – with only two students and three schools coming from the 20 High Performance Schools announced by the Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in January this year.
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The 200 top SPM students should all be given full pre-university and university scholarships to usher in a new era of meritocracy
Yesterday, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak called for a solution to the MCA crisis so that the party can emerge as a credible force to represent the Chinese community and country. MCA has become a pale shadow from the days of its founding fathers led by Tun Tan Cheng Lock more than half
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Four MCA Ministers and seven deputy ministers should take collective official leave for next fortnight to concentrate on their party tussle in the…
by Leslie Lau, Executive Editor | The Malaysian Insider KUCHING, March 13 — Sarawak’s Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri George Chan (picture) is confident of a near clean-sweep for the state’s Barisan Nasional (BN) amid growing talk of impending state elections, as the ruling coalition seeks a major boost ahead of the next general elections.
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Barisan talks up chances ahead of Sarawak polls
By Dr Lim Teck Ghee MCA is an ineffective political force in part because it has long played only a marginal role in the previous Malaysia Plans — implemented by the Umno-aligned, Malay dominated civil service — that have shaped socio-economic development in the country. The Malaysian public, especially the Chinese, must be wondering if MCA can
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MCA’s harakiri and its repercussions on the Chinese
By NH Chan MARCH 12 — On Tuesday March 9, 2010 the Sun reports: Federal Court: Anwar’s sacking from cabinet lawful Putrajaya: The sacking of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as deputy prime minister and finance minister 11 years ago was lawful, the Federal Court ruled yesterday.
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Was Anwar’s sacking 11 years ago lawful?
The list of Top 10 students and Top 10 schools in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2009 is a slap-in-the-face to Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for his list of High-Performance Schools (HPS) announced at the end of January. The two SPM 2009 lists have validated the criticisms leveled against Muhyiddin’s HPS list, that it
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Top 10 students and Top 10 schools in SPM 2009 a slap-in-the face to Muhyiddin’s list of High Performance Schools
Balancing theory and action at Canada’s first northern university Stephanie Irlbacher graduated from Samuel Hearne Secondary School, a residential/day facility for the Inuvialuit and Dene scattered throughout the northern reaches of the Northwest Territories, with… Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com
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Higher Learning by Jessa Gamble
The Nasir Safar outrage is the latest reason why a parliamentary select committee on 1Malaysia Government Transformation Programme (GTP) Roadmap is vital and indispensable if Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia slogan is not to become a bogus one, degenerating into a farce and a joke. In a three-paragraph statement just before 8 pm last
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Nasir Safar outrage latest reason why parliamentary select committee on 1Malaysia GTP is vital and indispensable
Anwar’s Second Sodomy Trial | The Wall Street Journal Malaysia itself, not the opposition leader, is in the dock. More than a decade after he was beaten, tried and jailed, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will once again face a Kuala Lumpur court today on charges of sodomy.
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Malaysia itself, not the opposition leader, is in the dock
Senator Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in direct charge of Jakim, should be suspended or even removed as Minister if he cannot give a full and satisfactory explanation to Cabinet and the nation for Jakim’s open insubordination and insurrection against Najib’s 1Malaysia slogan and vision. If the Cabinet tomorrow is
In an interview with Sin Chew Daily yesterday, the new Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Commissioner Datuk Abu Kassim Mohammed was refreshingly frank when he admitted that the mysterious death of DAP aide Teoh Beng Hock at the MACC Headquarters at Shah Alam on July 16 last year had caused the MACC image and
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MACC will not have a year to redeem itself as its public image may plunge to an even lower depth next few days
By Augustine Anthony & Bah Tony William Hunt On 04.12.2009 it was reported in the New Straits Times that some 19,990 Orang Asli families will receive freehold land titles. It would generally be expected that the Orang Asli communities will be elated with this announcement but strangely far from being overjoyed with this news, the Orang Asli communities
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Orang Asli call for recognition of their Ancestral Land
 Fatigued, he bides there, glum, in the desert Tim Hortons simulacrum, that mirage of home dragged out the tail end of a C130 Hercules and opened for business. In his PVC lawn chair, he pours… Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com
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For the Fighter Pilot Made Redundant by Unmanned Drones by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Surprise of surprises that there is a MCA Minister and leader who could bestir from their political comatose stage to notice current developments around them. The MCA paper The Star today reported the MCA vice president Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha as commenting that “the ‘internal bleeding’ of Pakatan Rakyat is just the beginning of a
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MCA Ministers and leaders are the “politically walking-dead” in Malaysia
In his opening speech for the International Conference on Religion, Law and Governance in South-East Asia on Saturday, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the tremendous force of religion must be harnessed to advance social and national unity. He said: “A sign of our times is that religious and spiritual values take on
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Cabinet must condemn and take action against Jakim’s insubordination and open insurrection against Najib’s 1Malaysia concept
by M. Bakri Musa The side-by-side commentaries by Anwar Ibrahim and Najib Razak in the recent Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal illuminated a couple of salient points, in particular, the state of Malaysian journalism and the quality of our leadership.
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Anwar And Najib – Up Close and Very Revealing
29 Jan 10 : 8.00AM By Deborah Loh; The Nut Graph FIVE years ago, in the blink of an eye, life changed for the Lion of Jelutong. A car accident close to midnight on 28 Jan 2005 now keeps Karpal Singh confined to a wheelchair and under constant supervision and assistance in order to perform the simplest
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For Karpal, the personal is political
Higher Education Minister Datuk Khaled Nordin should not turn the clock back but boldly go forward to foster the spirit of academic freedom among university lecturers and students by supporting University of Malaya Vice Chancellor Ghauth Jasmon’s handling of the campus polls controversy. Khaled should not undermine Ghauth’s authority as UM VC by attacking or
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Khaled should not turn the clock back but boldly go forward to foster the spirit of academic freedom among university lecturers and students
by Lim Guan Eng Pakatan Rakyat Penang’s greatest legacy to Malaysia and greatest threat to BN’s stranglehold on power is to prove that the right policies can make Malays compete and succeed against the best in the world. Ever since the Pakatan Rakyat Penang state government took power in March 2008, we have made integrity and
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PR Penang greatest legacy – prove right policies can make Malays and Malaysians compete and succeed against the best
Letter I am a medical doctor who was educated overseas and worked in Australia for several years and recently decided to return to Malaysia to serve the country. As a professional working overseas I heard about the ‘Program bagi mengalakkan warganegara Malaysia yang berpakaran yang bekerja di luar negara pulang ke Malaysia’ and therefore applied
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Disappointed Doctor