The problem isn’t with 1Malaysia. We can all get behind the concept of unity, in fact what’s worrying is why it should be anything new.
But the real problem is that most of us suspect BN of just superficially pandering to the non-Malays. There is, after all, no good reason for any non-Malay to vote for [...]

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Al-Jazeera interviewed PERKASA head Ibrahim Ali today for its piece on the sidelining of non-Malays in Malaysia.
Any politician would have seemed a little boorish considering that AJ also interviewed Farish Noor. But Ibrahim Ali actually has to be censored for repeatedly swearing on international TV. They couldn’t have made him look worse if they tried. [...]

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Most of you will have heard about the rollout of TM’s High Speed Broadband (HSBB) branded as UniFi (“Fi” stands for fiber-optic by the way, and yes it sounds ridiculous if you pronounce it in bahasa baku).
UniFi Rates
TM still has not fixed its glitch on the main site that renders it unusable by all browsers [...]

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TM has launched its new High Speed Broadband (HSBB), branded as UniFi recently. Press coverage can be found here.
The UniFi page was initially accessible on launch (albeit with the typical error found on all government sites, accessing it without the “www.” wouldn’t work.
But later the page was updated to be more “Flash”-y:

However it seems that [...]

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Tim on February 13th, 2010

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Read this recently in The Star and I was flabbergasted.

The biggest gainers will be new inspectors who will get a starting salary of RM2,060 compared to RM1,492 previously. Diploma and STPM holders will also be allowed to join the force directly as sergeants and they will start with a basic salary of [...]

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Tim on February 6th, 2009

So I’ve been refreshing Malaysiakini nearly non-stop, as you have probably been too. Thoughts on the Perak crisis:
- Anwar has made the biggest mistake in this crisis so far. It’s not even that he was outsmarted by Najib, or that he has zero to show for all his grandstanding over overthrowing the current Government. It’s [...]

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Tim on September 10th, 2008

Ahmad has been stripped of party posts and suspended from UMNO for 3 years. Fitting enough in my book – although from the reports that are coming in there is still a simmering conflict in the works. Some called for the ISA or Sedition Act to be used against Ahmad, but I think it would have been a bad [...]

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Tim on August 21st, 2008

There I said it. If you watched it last night then do drop a note and tell me what you thought. Will update with youtube links once they are up.
Briefly, LGE opened with a flurry of accusations, touching on 5-6 “land scandals”. As the night went on though they focused on one particular scandal, the [...]

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Tim on August 18th, 2008

Well now seriously. When Khalid Ibrahim made his suggestion for 10% of UiTM placements to be opened up to non-bumis, who did you think he was looking out for? The non-bumis? When was the last time you heard Chinese or Indian students clamouring for UiTM allocations? A degree from UiTM is probably worth less than [...]

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Tim on July 19th, 2008

On March 1, 2008, then Cabinet Minister Rafidah Aziz said this about PAS’ calls for a debate with Abdullah Badawi on their election manifestos:
Rafidah also said that it was unnecessary to accede to a PAS suggestion for the party to have an open debate with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and [...]

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