Category Archives: On the Beat

A rose by any other name…

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

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

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

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

Limited access to our wakil rakyat

ONE would have expected that  with all the promises of more  transparency during the recent  general election that the Fourth Estate would at least have greater access to information. This appears  not to be the case. Beginning June 12, reporters […] Continue Reading