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Long road to nuclear energy
Malaysian Nuclear Agency director-general Datuk Dr Daud Mohamad tells RAJESHWARY MENON what our nuclear programme holds in store for us.
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Big fish, small fish
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail gives us a peek into fraternisation, jurisdiction and big fish in the final part of the interview by R. Nadeswaran, Terence Fernandez and Llew-Ann Phang.
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Addressing public concerns
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail tells R. Nadeswaran, Terence Fernandez and Llew-Ann Phang how he is affected by public perception of his chambers in the second part of the interview.
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Hatching IDEAS
IN the autumn of 2006 in a dank room near the Tower of London I met up with Wan Saiful Wan Jan and Wan Mohd Firdaus Wan Mohd Fuaad. Both were well-known to the Malaysian student community in the UK: the former had led Hizbi for many years, while the latter had served as chairman of the United Kingdom and Eire Council for Malaysian Students and was active in the Federation of Student Islamic Societies.
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The green conundrum
CLOSE to four years after the documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, came onto cinema screens and won rave reviews, I was finally persuaded to watch it by a Swiss friend who felt that Al Gore spoke in part for her and her alpine countrymen when he highlighted the effect of global warming on glacial retreat. No doubt, Gore conveyed a strong sense of urgency for action to be taken to slow down the speed of global warming but by the end of the film, I didn’t learn anything new.
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Finding strength in freedom
A CABINET minister whom I once had the pleasure of sitting next to at a dinner, upon finding out that I worked at an academic institution outside Malaysia, asked me what the single greatest barrier to the improvement of Malaysian universities was. "Lack of academic freedom," I answered.
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Get ’em all – without fear or favour
POLITICS and business are a deadly mix. Politicians and positions are even deadlier. When politicians sit in positions in statutory bodies and government agencies, the mix could be even lethal. The insistence on wearing both the hats provides enough ammunition to detractors to spray the bullets. Experience tells us that when politicians are appointed to positions, they must act in the best interests of the organisation, and above all, the people. When party interests and petty politics take precedence, there is always this danger that decisions made could be termed as "political decisions".
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Who speaks for Indians?
MIC, Hindraf, Makal Sakhti, PPP, IPF and MAICCI. What do these acronyms and names have in common? Well they are all Indian or Indian-based parties and they are all going through a leadership crisis.
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Local govt elections can wait
SHOULD an election promise be kept if there are questions and uncertainties? More specifically, should Penang and Selangor state governments hold local government elections that the DAP and PKR promised during the 2008 general election campaign? There are no simple answers.
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