August 2006 « MageP’s Lab

Settle?

MCA Youth Chief Liow Tiong Lai demanded an explanation from Umno deputy youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin over his outburst, asking him to explain why he said he was misunderstood.

He too stressed that he had been given the full mandate in that meeting itself to bring up the issue to Umno Youth Chief Hishamuddin Hussein as [...]

Paying RM1 to use an air-conditioned fully-automated street toilet (AST) for 15 minutes is set to be a new experience for Malaysians and tourists soon, with two of them in the Jalan Bukit Bintang area by the end of this month.

However, little might aware that, each cubicle costs taxpayers of a freaking RM500,000!

(SOURCE: [...]

Why misunderstood?

Today, MCA Youth Chief Liow Tiong Lai said Umno Youth deputy youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin must be sincere in solving the controversy created and reminded him to not repeat the remarks he made about Chinese Malaysians again.

"He should not repeat the same remarks. If he said he is misunderstood, tell us why he was misunderstood."

In [...]

Clever people

Yesterday, former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad had a say on ‘clever people‘ who graduated from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and other such institutions of higher learning but did not know how to apply their learning constructively to the development of the country.

"You know what happens when you have a lot of clever people: They [...]

Sex education

Women, Family and Community Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said sex education should be included in the school curriculum as soon as possible, to help curb rising cases of infanticide and abortions.
"We cannot delay this anymore and parents must also play a part in giving the right guidance." [...]

"We need to make sure they (students) [...]

Mat Cemerlang

Not only illegal racing motorcycle will remain as illegal, they’ve got a new brand name for themselves too.

Illegal motorcycle riders or "Mat Rempit" will be rebranded by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at an assembly in the Bukit Jalil National Stadium this November, says Putera Umno Chairman Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim.
He said the rebranding of [...]

Narayana logs out of Infosys

Chairman of Infosys Technologies N.R. Narayana Murthy stepped down on Sunday after 25 years at the helm of the firm he co-founded with six other software engineers and built into India’s second-largest software company.

Riding a global outsourcing boom, it has grown into an international company with annual revenues of more than $2 billion and market [...]

We need a break, please …

Once again, Umno Deputy Youth Chief Khairy Jamaluddin a.k.a the-son-in-law shot to the front pages of major Chinese-language newspapers – Sin Chew Daily, Nanyang Siang Pau and China Press – being condemned by MCA and Gerakan leaders, all for wrong reasons. Both the English and Malay dailies have ignored KJ’s remarks.

(SOURCE: Sin Chew [...]

Anti-corruption forum

The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) will be organising the first ever Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Anti-Corruption and Enhancing Integrity Forum, on Aug 28-30 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC).

"The forum is very essential in enhancing the integrity among OIC members in combating corruption. Moreover it’s a milestone move in strengthening Malaysia’s achievement in the [...]

Scuffle, ugly and shame in UPM … (2)

[UPDATED VERSION] If there is one agenda that UPM in urgent deed of, that must be a total revamp of the management, so to speak.

On 22 July, gangsterism reared its ugly head in Univerisiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) when about 50 "pro-establishment" students took the law into their own hands and manhandled seven students who are [...]