Posts Tagged ‘Marginalisation’

Only threats can work

April 15th, 2008
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Cuepacs has been trying to arrange meetings since last September. But they were being pushed from PM to KSN and back few times without any proper response. When they threatened to boycott Worker Day celebration…voila..meeting arranged within days! » Read more: Only threats can work

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

PAS wants to lead Pakatan Rakyat and aim for islamic state

April 6th, 2008
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 I’ve always had my doubt on PAS. I think anything based on religion will cause problem. So, this kind of statement only serves to alienate people from PAS. DAP will also suffer since people will start to question DAP.

To avoid Pakatan Rakyat from becoming another BN, PAs should not lead. It consists of Muslim-Malays, just like UMNO in BN. And we have seen how BN works. Its better for a multiracial party to lead Pakatan Rakyat.

I think DAP and PKR should merge, and let PAS to contest by itself in next election. » Read more: PAS wants to lead Pakatan Rakyat and aim for islamic state

Indian loved BN says Samy

April 4th, 2008
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So said Samy. from 85% of the votes, it went down by 35% in the last election. I think it went down much more than that. I think less than 20% of Indians voted for BN. » Read more: Indian loved BN says Samy

Indian quota for civil service

April 3rd, 2008
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KUALA LUMPUR: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu wants at least eight per cent of civil servants to be Indians. He said the number of Indians hired as civil servants fluctuated between 3.5 per cent and less than five per cent every year. “It is only fair if we have about eight per cent representation in the civil service as that should be sufficient to look into the problems plaguing the Indian community,” he said after chairing the party’s central working committee meeting at the MIC headquarters here yesterday. » Read more: Indian quota for civil service