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  Asas-asas kebudayaan

  Identiti kebudayaan sesuatu bangsa bersangkut paut dengan tiga faktor utama - faktor sejarah, bahasa dan psikologi (yang terakhir sekali mungkin meliputi...
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  Australian MPs protest

  We have been alarmed by reports in the Australian Press which have stated that since Oktober 28 of last year...
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  Avoid antibiotics for minor illnesses

  I refer to the letter by Yeap Boon Chye, the executive director of the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Trade and Manufacturers Association...
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  Bakun Dam - release the findings

  The Bakun Dam Committee of the Environmental Protection Society Malaysia urges the government to release the findings of the Feasibility...
  
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  Bakun dam project - please clarify

  Malaysian were relieved when the government announced that the mammoth Bakun hydro-electric power (HEP) project in Sarawak would be...
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  Banking on integrity

  During the recent debate on the Central Bank of Malaysia (Amendment) Bill, it was alleged by the Leader of the...
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  Barisan Win Bigs - Why?

  As the results of the 1995 general elections unfolded on the night of 25 April, it was clear that the...
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  Bewildering Investments : because of its losses on the stockmarket, the EPF is now forced to pay a lower dividend to contributors

  For the first time since 1975, the Emloyees Provident Fund has declared a divident lower than 7 per cent. The...
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  Blatant obstruction of justice : Hamid orders doors of Court Locked.

  The Bar Council views with great concern and apprehension the recent suspension of the Lord President and 5 Supreme Court...
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  Blues over education system : Our national school system falls far short of public expectations.

  Of late, there have been calls and suggestions to have the proposed single stream school system implemented in our education
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  BN bound for defear, says Ku Li : Umno will lose if it fails to reform, charges the Kelantan prince.

  Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has predicted that Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) will be voted out of power if concrete reforms...
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  Brave heart - the struggle againts tyranny : not fairy-tale or fiction but based on reality : speaks of political intrigue, corruption and double-dealing.

  The movie Brave Heart, a Mel Gibson directed production in which the famous actor himself also starred as the protagonist...
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  Burma under cruel military repression

  Can the world believe that there is a government without people? It is the SLORC, headed by General Saw Maung...
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  Buying votes & bribing voters

  In the last one year or so, Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has gone all out to bribe the people...
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  Calling all concerned citizen

  I picked up one of the issues of Aliran Monthly at my favourite grocery store and on arriving home was...
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  Can you sell something that you don't own?

  Negative elements - greed, corruption, abuse of power and judicial indiference - have conspired to wipe out part of Penang's history and...
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  Cast out the caste!

  Recently there was a big hue and cry from the Hindu community when a Registration Officer wrote the word 'PARIAH'...
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  Ceylonese unhappy with Dr M

  Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has always said that the Barisan Nasional is fair to all the 'big' communities such...
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  Chandra had vindictive views on culf war

  I am regular subscriber and a keen follower of the Aliran Monthly. However, your issue Vol. 11 No.2 which contained...
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  Chandra's double standards : an open letter to Sdr Chandra Muzaffar

  I am 20 year old Chinese Malaysian college student presently residing in Petaling Jaya. I have been reading the Aliran...
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  Change at Batang Ai : So near, yet still so far... : The voters of Batang Ai had the last laugh, having squeezed Rm70 million out from the BN.

  My trio to Batang Ai was an eventful one. The battle for this state seat sparked an invasion on Lubok...
  
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  Charity begins at Kamunting!

  Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was reported to have made a statement through Wisma Putra urging the...
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  Chinese-Education different

  Francis Loh Kok Wah's article on Malaysian's perspective of the Gulf War has some insights. However, like other western-education...
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  Clampdown on media freedom :The authorities may have raided Malaysiakini, but they cannot stifle aspirations for greater participatory democracy

  As all Malaysian would be aware, the police raided Malaysiakini's office on Monday, 20 January 2002. The police's excuse for...
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  Clear vision necessary

  May i echo The Prime Minister's advice regarding the Sixth Malaysia Plan that there is "much more to be done"...
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  Close encounters of the ethnic kind

  I remember how a relative of mine used to upset me with comments about a certain community about whom she...
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  Co-op refund

  Given the circumstances, the Government's full refund in cash and equity to depositors of 13 co-operatives in a reasonable solution...
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  Commission of Courage : Assertive Election Commission vital for free and fair election.

  General Elections the world over are becoming increasingly expensive affairs. According to the Deputy Chairman of the Election Commission on...
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  Compliments

  I have been a reader of Aliran Monthly for more than a year. I feel that Aliran Monthly is very...
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  Compliments and some suggestions

  I wish to congratulate your Aliran Monthly for the good work you are doing in educating the Malaysian public on...
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  Conflict of interest : acting LP acts againts judges

  It was unanimously resolved at the Emergency Meeting of the Sabah Law Association on the 7th day of July 1988...
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  Conglomeratisation via political power renong & umno

  The reverse takeover of Fleet Group Sdn Bhd and Hatibudi Nominees Sdn Bhd by Renong Bhd in late april 1990...
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  Crazy but true

  A recent news item in the newspapers reminded me of crazy happening in some other countries where i happened to work...
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  Crisis in Modern Science : science, technology and natural resources

  Modern science has not succeeded in solving the Third World's social problems; instead it is being used increasingly as an...
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  Criticism is not a crime

  In February 1982, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister suggested to foreign bodies which criticize the goverment's
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  Critics are not disloyal

  I am writing this letter to advise our defence minister, Najib, to stop manouuvring to improve his position in the...
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  Cubing white-collar crimes

  Aliran supports the call by the Inspector General of Police, Tan Sri Mohamed Haniff Omar for legislation which would allow...
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  Curb influx of illegal Indon workers

  I refer to an article in the NST dated 8 September 1990 entitled "Plants looking for more Indon workers'. Was...
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  Current concerns

  Aliran urges the government to make public the Outline PerspectivePlan (OPP) before it is presented to the Dewan Rakyat...
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  Dams and development - time for a re-think?

  On November 16th last year, a major study on large dam projects was published. The 398 page report entitled...
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  Dangerous Development : breaneck economic groth triggers a series of disasters

  When power cables exploded on the Penang Bridge on 25 June and plunged half the island into darkness, the nightmare...
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  DAP should not join the BN

  Former MCA President, Datuk Dr Neo Yee Pan wants the DAP to join the BN. As a citizen of Malaysia...
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  Deaf Ears

  With reference to Encik Ghafar Baba's statement that the government did not need advise from people who can only criticise...
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  Defend freedom of expression : a joint appeal by Aliran, Hakam and Suaram

  Aliran, Hakam and Suaram jointly appeal to all concerned Malaysians to support urgently and generously the nation's only independent newspaper...
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  Democracy for all

  A Singaporean and a Filipino were both insisting that democracy existed in their respective nations. The Filipino told...
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  Democracy undermined : Forces are at work to subvert the voters' choice in the last general election while others are playing up emotive issues of race and religion for political ends.

  Pakatan doesn't need an enemy to destroy it. it can self-destruct quite easily - thanks to certain renegades within coalition...
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  Democratising defence : Malaysia's arms procurement process badly needs more transparency and public participation

  It is the general view that in Malaysia, public interest in defence or in the purchase of weapons systems and...
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  Denied - the right to speak in the National Language

  The Home Minister won an appeal in the Supreme Court here today against a High Court ruling quashing his decision...
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  Deputy Prime Minister

  The Chinese and Indians felt insulted by our Deputy Prime Minister whose speech was reported in the NST dated 12...
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  Development means the human being

  As an organisation committed to the emergemce of a genuine understanding of development, ALIRAN has observed with considerable interest the...