Category Archives: On the Beat

No ordinary life for them ( 01 May 2011 )

The wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton has not just been a British event but also a global one with over two billion people worldwide following the telecast. Outside Westminster Abbey, there were huge numbers of foreigners, many from […] Continue Reading

Time to reflect after the polls ( 17 April 2011 )

The latest indication was the victory of DAP in the Sibu parliamentary by-election last year. The SUPP (and Barisan Nasional’s) candidate Robert Lau Hui Yew was defeated by Wong Ho Leng. But there were earlier warnings that showed the growing […] Continue Reading

Of fake eggs and sex videos ( 10 April 2011 )

I suspect that he, like many expatriates, has also been buying pirated videos. He seems to be able to talk about so many movies and I know he never has enough time to go to the cinemas. But he seems […] Continue Reading

All for nought ( 27 March 2011 )

But the cloak-and-dagger operation, with journalists being given last minute instructions on the time and location, the dark glasses and metal scanner plus the mysterious Datuk T, has all come to nought. Within hours of the first screening at Carcosa […] Continue Reading

Find a way out of this deadlock ( 20 March 2011 )

The Star has been issued a reprimand letter from the Home Ministry for reporting on the 5,000 impounded Bahasa Malaysia Bibles in a March 9 article. An editor of this newspaper represented me after we were asked to meet the […] Continue Reading

English: A handicap we must overcome ( 13 March 2011 )

He delivered the message because the AMS students had the lowest graduate employability rate in comparison to all other faculties six months after they completed their studies. He made the call based on statistics provided by the ministry out of […] Continue Reading

Malaysia, truly puzzling ( 06 March 2011 )

Paul, who has just settled here, says Malay­sia is truly remarkable. If you are a loyal, law-abiding citizen who pays your summonses on time, you get no discount. But if you ignore the police, you get rewarded, he points out. […] Continue Reading

Sick of the same old mantra ( 27 February 2011 )

On The BeatBy WONG CHUN WAI It is the tired mantra of most politicians: He can’t go because he still can’t find a successor; the possible successors are not ready; if he names them, they will end up killing themselves; […] Continue Reading

Malaysia, truly paradoxical ( 20 February 2011 )

Malaysians are supposed to be lazy when it comes to reading. They read an average of one page a year. Okay, the latest statistics say one-and-a-half pages.But Paul is amazed at how we have become so emotionally interlocked over a […] Continue Reading

Never overstay, a lesson from Cairo ( 13 February 2011 )

We don’t know what his cronies have been telling him but a majority of the people who gathered at Tahrir Square over the past two weeks certainly knew who Mubarak was. They wanted him to go. They had already grown […] Continue Reading