Chin Tong: The dichotomy between vernacular education and national schools is outdated
20 Feb 2012
Posted on 18 February 2012 – 04:46pm Last updated on 19 February 2012 – 01:38pm Pauline Wong newsdesk@thesundaily.com KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 18, 2012): Studying in Chinese does not make one less loyal to the country, as we are all still Malaysians, Deputy Education Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong today said. Addressing some 600 participants at [...]
Strengthen vernacular schools to tap language asset, says DAP MP
20 Feb 2012
By Yow Hong Chieh February 18, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 — Malaysia must put national and vernacular schools on an equal footing to take advantage of the country’s racial diversity even as the world’s economic locus shifts to China and India, a DAP lawmaker said today. Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong said there [...]
Reveal details of Danaharta-Tajudin settlement, say BN and PR MPs
15 Feb 2012
By Shannon Teoh February 15, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 — Politicians want details of the “out-of-court settlement” between national asset management firm Pengurusan Danaharta Bhd (Danaharta) and Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli made public. They said the public had a right to know how much of public funds were recovered in the settlement which was [...]
Passing assets to Bumi elites a return to Dr M’s failed policies, MPs say
13 Feb 2012
By Shannon Teoh February 10, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Lawmakers across the political divide are wary of Putrajaya’s move to transfer 10 non-core businesses from Khazanah Nasional Bhd and Permodalan Nasional Bhd to Bumiputera companies. They say it mirrors the failed Mahathir-era plan to groom Bumiputera entrepreneurs in the 1990s. While Barisan Nasional [...]
Najib ceding to Umno hawks over court appeals, says Pakatan
30 Jan 2012
By Shannon Teoh January 21, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 21 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak is “painting himself into a corner” with the government’s latest court pursuit of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Karpal Singh, in what Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders say were moves designed to placate the hardliners in Umno. Yesterday, public prosecutors filed [...]
The Inauguration of Penang Institute
16 Jan 2012
Welcoming Speech by Liew Chin Tong at the Inauguration of Penang Institute on Friday 9th December 2011 at Town Hall, George Town, Penang. “Indeed the world is witnessing unprecedented changes previously thought impossible. Who would have foreseen the Arab Spring? Who would have predicted the damage of the March 11th earthquake in Japan and more [...]
New Think Tanks For New Times
12 Jan 2012
This interview with YB Liew Chin Tong, outgoing executive director of Penang Institute and Member of Parliament for Bukit Bendera, discusses his understanding of the tasks think tanks need to adopt in the 21st century. Malaysian nation building has not been an easy process, and one of the negative developments it involved was not only [...]
Penang Institute Begins
12 Jan 2012
George Town’s historic City Hall was the setting for the inauguration of the Penang Institute, previously known as the Socio-Economic and Environmental Research Institute (SERI). This took place on December 9, 2011 along side the Institute’s second Penang in Asia lecture on “Finance and the Current Recession”. By Penang Economic Monthly, Jan 2012
Malaysia opposition’s Anwar freed of sodomy charge
10 Jan 2012
Associated Press= KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s High Court acquitted opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomizing a former aide, citing unreliable DNA evidence in a verdict Monday that surprised supporters who saw the case as an attempt to sideline him. Anwar said the verdict left him free to focus on trying to topple Prime [...]
DAP bracing for fiery talks
9 Jan 2012
PETALING JAYA: The DAP holds its 13th national conference today still grappling with controversies that have beset the party these last few months. One major source of embarrassment has been the very public spat between DAP chairman Karpal Singh and Penang Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P Ramasamy. Karpal is still insisting on disciplinary action [...]
