Spectacle Debacle

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Simple activity to help poor students also can be publicised and make headlines. For past few years the same activity was done without any concern for disruption of school activities. Suddenly, the activity is asked not proceed. Very fishy! » Read more: Spectacle Debacle

Raja Petra bail fund exceeds 25k in hours

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Phew, it reached RM24K over within 6-7 hours. And it just needed RM5K to bail him out. He really got many supporters from all over the world. Even though just RM1 was requested per person, the comments on his website indicate some who donated larger sums.

RPK earlier refused bail and was sent to jail. Perhaps with the money collected, he will be willing to come out.

While the spotlight was on the royalty, there was less news on the other guy, Syed Akbar Ali who was charged under the same Act, but who posted bail.

Gerakan forms committee to solve Tamil schools problems

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Really 400 schools closed down since 1979? Wow! Anyway, good luck to Gerakan. They will be going against UMNO if want to fight for Tamil schools. These guys no need to create another committee, just work with exiting ones like HINDRAF, Tamil Foundation, EWRF, Tamil HM Association, MIC (heaven forbid!), the school PTAs etc.

I’m not sure how serious is Gerakan since they are not Indian-friendly party. No “suitable” candidates it seems for recent elections. So, how to have faith in people like Dr Krishnan?

Solution is simple for layman like me. Change the law. How difficult is that? Difficult since one good-for-nothing political party opposes it. All it needs is to get the legal team to draft changes, and vote in parliament. Which right minded parliamentarian won’t vote for converting partially-aided schools to fully-aided ones – (by buying the land or allowing for funds for such schools on par with other schools)? I bet there will be a bunch of them who are against it. They won’t let fellow coalition MPs to support such motion as well, if it was from the opposition.

This Gerakan effort will fail. If successful, MIC can close shop. » Read more: Gerakan forms committee to solve Tamil schools problems

Brothers finally get MyKad

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Madurai, an insurance agent, said he was appalled at the lack of interest shown by the NRD officers to resolve the matter.

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residential schools still limited to other malaysians

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obviously, one will want the best for their children, especially in education. Residential schools do produce generally better examination results, but some say it is due to dubious methods. However, for the moment, one can only enter MRSM which allocates 10% of the seats for the normal Malaysians, remaining 90% is for the obvious group. » Read more: residential schools still limited to other malaysians