Category Archives: On the Beat
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
Limited access to our wakil rakyat ( 04 June 1995 )
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
