Category Archives: On the Beat
PAS trying to be our moral guardian again ( 18 January 2004 )
Although the two-time Grammy Awards winner can still perform to a sell-out crowd, she has to do more in the face of heavy competition from newcomers such as Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. Regarded as the best-selling female performer […] Continue Reading
Clean-up job for Nor Mohamed ( 11 January 2004 )
He also did not want someone with political ambitions, with an eye for popularity, who would probably build up his own war chest. Anyone with these ideas in mind would probably expose himself to all kinds of allegations and suspicions. […] Continue Reading
Revamp the force to restore its image ( 04 January 2004 )
We are not talking about isolated cases involving rape or murder in basement car parks, apartments or dark places but petty crimes – which seem to have increased in recent years – within our midst. Worse, when police reports are […] Continue Reading
More excitement on the way next year ( 28 December 2003 )
Over the next two months, we can expect the political tempo to pick up. If the general election is to be held by March or April, then the various political parties must begin their campaigning by next month. Abdullah, as […] Continue Reading
Saddam caught but the war is far from over ( 21 December 2003 )
I arrived in London a day after Saddam was caught like a rat. There was near hysteria in the British capital. Even the conservative broadsheets sounded like supermarket tabloids, with the same headlines and blown-up picture of Saddam on their […] Continue Reading
No letting up in war against corruption ( 14 December 2003 )
He has stressed that the policies of the Barisan Nasional government would remain, but things that need to be changed would be changed. Nothing is cast in stone, in his own words. Last week, he told Malaysians that he was […] Continue Reading
Expect real action in graft clean-up ( 07 December 2003 )
Corruption, he said, "interferes with the smooth running of the government, interferes with the implementation of things we want to do, and creates problems in the public delivery system". These are strong words. That was not all – he promised […] Continue Reading
Taiwan insists on walking its own road ( 30 November 2003 )
Many Penangites, especially from Chung Ling High School and Han Chiang High School, have ended up studying in Taiwan universities, mostly in engineering and computer science. The food is also similar: I found oh chean (fried oyster omelette), bah kut […] Continue Reading
When the giving stops, so will the taking ( 23 November 2003 )
They all laughed at me when I told them the policemen could be working harder now because they were trying to stop Malaysian motorists from killing themselves during the festive season. Wake up and stop being politically correct, they retorted […] Continue Reading
Alarm bells ringing for non-Muslims ( 16 November 2003 )
Recently, Malaysians saw and heard PAS vice-president Datuk Mustapha Ali on BBC's Hardtalk that the party had never mentioned anything about an Islamic state and that the term was used by the media to frighten the non-Muslims. But last week, […] Continue Reading
