Category Archives: On the Beat
No remedies for traffic-choked Kuala Lumpur ( 26 January 1997 )
It's worse for Johan, a marketing manager, who lives in Subang Jaya. He has to wake up at 5am, leave his house by 6am to reach his Jalan Raja Laut office by 9am. Subang Jaya, a middle-class residential housing estate […] Continue Reading
Spiky hair and pony tails of yore ( 19 January 1997 )
The five, who grew up in the idealism of the 60s rebelling against the Vietnam War and the poverty of the Baling peasants, are all amused at the hysteria over the punk culture in Malaysia. The long hair was a […] Continue Reading
Locals pay heavy social price for foreign labour ( 12 January 1997 )
In the Klang Valley, motorists now find fewer Bangladeshis working at petrol stations. It's the Malaysian cashier they deal with now. Over the next few weeks, the immigration department together with the other authorities will begin a crackdown on illegal […] Continue Reading
Time for a fair write-up ( 15 December 1996 )
It has been 18 years since a Malaysian Prime Minister appeared on the cover of Time. Tunku Abdul Rahman was first featured on its front page in April 1963, following the inclusion of Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore into Malaysia. Tun […] Continue Reading
Pressing need to tighten media links ( 08 December 1996 )
"We have heard about the amazing economic pace in Malaysia but what we saw was unbelievable,'' said diplomatic journalist Mirce Jovanovski. The reporter from Macedonia's largest newspaper, Nova Makedonija, was among the 20 invited by the Malaysian Government to see […] Continue Reading
Unsung heroes or vocal villains? ( 01 December 1996 )
But that does not prevent him from sending press statements to so-called pro-government newspapers which he despises. Most of his statements are published, even when some have no relevance to the movement he is heading. These examples give NGOs a […] Continue Reading
A rose by any other name… ( 20 October 1996 )
It did not matter to him that a reporter or journalist was one and the same. It's just another name for a newspaper scribe. A journalist sounded better and more respectable to him and that's all it counts. As the […] Continue Reading
Enough money to spend like crazy ( 15 September 1996 )
Last week, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim blamed the growing expensive taste of Malaysians as among the reasons for the deficit. Malaysians, he said, were dressing themselves and furnishing their houses and offices with costly imports. Last year, […] Continue Reading
Me and you and a system that went boo-boo ( 08 September 1996 )
Not grass or uppers but hard drugs. Between 1990 and 1995, a total of 513 single mothers gave birth at welfare institutions. The figure shows an increase of 280 per cent from 1990. Are these findings the result of parents […] Continue Reading
Bracing for some changes with new MP ( 06 August 1995 )
HOURS after lawyer Wee Choo Keong lost his Bukit Bintang parliamentary seat in a court hearing last week, he turned up for a dinner organised by the hawkers at Chow Kit. The dinner, held in conjunction with the Feast of […] Continue Reading
