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an unhappy chinese new year?

(by Martin Jalleh) A Chinese new year has dawned. The PM declares that Malaysian Chinese should be more daring to help build a more dynamic 1Malaysia. Such a dramatic invitation by Najib is made against the dark and depressing background of jarring discordant voices by Umnoputras which the drums and …

the allah issue – the problem with islamic education & political interests

this is a very long but intersting article by wan imran wan chik. —————————————————————————– 11 Churches attacked by arsonist, a result from Muslim extremist in Malaysia had finally put Malaysia in International headlines. From the front cover of International Herald Tribune ( IHT ), to the front cover of Financial …

satu lagi projek baziran nasional (BN)

(translated: another  national waste project) the new istana negara at jalan duta! on my return trip from selangau, sarawak, i stayed over at sharon’s and in the morning she bought me to the new istana construction site and i took several pictures of the site… from a far, the opposite …

allah itu kasih

this picture, a church in indonesia,  is taken from a friend’s facebook. the words up there right above the cross – ‘allah itu kasih’ (god is love). see? indonesia is a muslim country… the muslim population much much more than the muslim population in malaysia, yet they have no problem …

my two top news-maker of the year

as the year come to the end, as always, the media will come out with stuff such as ‘top 10 news’, ‘person of the year’, ‘news of the year’ and so on. well, several days ago the online news portal had already started on this. my favourite news portal, malaysiakini …