Archive for October, 2009
In 2004, State Assemblyman for Kampung Tunku, Lau Weng San did something that most people would not even dare contemplate – he gave up a well-paying job as a process engineer in an oil and gas engineering consultancy firm to work full-time for the Democratic Action Party. We caught up with the 31-year-old to find out what makes him tick.
The result of the Permatang Pasir by-election showed that UMNO-Barisan Nasional is at its wits’ end. The party is plagued with internal power struggles at the grassroots level with local warlords vying for what is left of their traditional power base in Permatang Pauh.
For the last few months, UMNO-owned newspapers especially Utusan Malaysia have embarked on a campaign to win back Malay support by painting certain Malay Pakatan Rakyat leaders as traitors to the Malay race and Islam.
In the incident that shocked the whole country, some 50 residents purporting to be members of the Section 23 residents association in Shah Alam carried out a rowdy protest outside the state government premises on 28 August, where they brought along a severed cow head and proceeded to stomp and spit on it.
Six years ago, the Cabinet under Tun Dr. Mahathir took a hasty and ill-considered decision to rush headlong to …
Over the past 33 years, our cherished national petroleum company Petronas has contributed half a trillion ringgit (that’s RM500,000,000,000) to the Malaysian government and in the past nine years given RM15.2 billion to Terengganu.
How have these sums been spent?
“As a young person, I resonate with his desire to contribute so willingly to this cause. His death cannot be in vain. Although it may spark fears amongst the young – and their parents – as to the grave political dangers of this working environment, I believe with a greater urgency and fervour that this is the right thing to do.
It’s official. Barisan Nasional is hell-bent on wresting back Selangor from Pakatan Rakyat.
It was reported by Bernama on 26 July that the Selangor UMNO has been asked to hold information campaigns under the Conquer Selangor Initiative Programme (Pintas) in all 56 state constituencies in Selangor beginning August.