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Protest over treatment of Uthaya

April 11th, 2008
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Not only the crowd is angry, the Indian community is also very angry. SMS and emails are flying around, providing updates on Uthaya’s health and the condemning the person(s) responsible for this inhumane act.  MIC should realise that if anything happens to Uthaya, the party can close shop and kiss goodbye to the community. » Read more: Protest over treatment of Uthaya

more MIC branches

April 10th, 2008
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MIC Youth, Wanita to form own branches

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/81164
Apr 10, 08 3:18pm

MIC will allow its Youth and Wanita wings to form their own branches as part of the party’s restructuring exercise. Announcing this today, party president S Samy Vellu said each branch would operate as a separate entity, provided it had 50 or more members. » Read more: more MIC branches

Denison quits YSS

April 10th, 2008
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Nothing was mentioned in YSS’s website, but SV has confirmed that Denison Jayasooria has resigned from YSS, even though the “resignation is yet to be accepted”. Denison wants to do new things and concentrate on church work. Well, we have learned not to believe what Samy says given his track record. » Read more: Denison quits YSS

interivew with Dr Xavier Jayakumar

April 10th, 2008
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Exclusive interview with the guy who defeated Vigneswaran (Kota Raja seat). He talks about his portfolio, representing Indian community, temple problems, health issues, etc.

Interestingly, he says there is only one Indian EXCO in the state because another is in ISA (Manoharan) while the other is still a junior member (Bukit Melawati seat). Seniority can be used as one of the criteria to select EXCO, along with experience, skills, education, etc. However, Xavier said that the EXCO need to reflect the racial composition of the state, effectively meaning a quota system. Now, this is the same thing mentioned in Perak as well. The sole guideline should always be the best person for the job, not the person based on color of his hair or skin. Probably pressure from certain quarters forced the government to use this “state racial composition” as a reason. » Read more: interivew with Dr Xavier Jayakumar

SJKT Azad shares building with pub

April 10th, 2008
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Well done! We have school in store rooms, in shoplots, in containers, and now most probably a new Guiness and Malaysia Records – school in a bungalow lot that is a pub a night. First activity of the day for students – pick up beer bottles! Wonder which Tamil paper wrote about this before? » Read more: SJKT Azad shares building with pub