I was surprised reading this article, not that because it was written by a Malay Muslim but by its poor reasoning and lack of grip to the issue. Actually, this kind of reasoning is nothing new, if you joined a closed FB group full of Islamophobes like GE-Global, you’ll find this argument repeated everywhere. Hafidz […]
Refuting Hafidz Baharom’s article in Malaysiakini: On Israel and Malaysian hypocrisy
I was surprised reading this article, not that because it was written by a Malay Muslim but by its poor reasoning and lack of grip […]
Tenaganita – Attorney-General’s office failed to bring justice for Adelina!
Employer acquitted of domestic worker Adelina’s death, walks freeWhere is JUSTICE for ADELINA? Adelina Sao, 21, died in Bukit Mertajam hospital on 11th February 2018 […]
Does China Invented Industrial Espionage?
I was discussing a project today with my manager. Along the way, he mentioned that China is a “copycat” country rather than an innovation country. […]
Malaysian Education System Does Not Nurture Talents
For almost a week now Malaysiakini joined liberal media outlets attacking our education minister. Malaysiakini trying so hard, publishing Op-Ed on daily basis attacking Maszlee. […]
Income inequality by Matthew P. Drennan – Book Review
What was missing in the economic theory that lead to the financial crisis in 2008-09? This was the first question Drennan want to answer in […]
Surat Dari Praha
IMDG Rating : 7.3/10Author Rating : 8.5/10 Sebuah filem oleh Angga Dwimas Sasongko dan diterajui oleh Julie Estelle dan Tio Pakusadewo yang saya rasa antara […]
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Inisiatif Ekonomi Rakyat 2019
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Sang penguasa yang jatuh dari takhta
Sejarah adalah kumpulan cerita berkenaan dengan peristiwa dan manusia di masa lalu. Howard Zinn berkata bahawa orang yang tidak mempelajari sejarah umpama anak kecil, yang tidak mempunyai pengalaman lampau. Dia mudah diperdaya oleh orang lain. Dalam susur galur sejarah kita membaca bagaimana pemimpin-pemimpin megah jatuh dari takhta kuasa. Kuasa yang dipegang seolah-olah kebal akhirnya runtuh […]
Edisi Posmen : Surat Untuk YB Maszlee
Kehadapan YB yang dikasihi, Semoga YB dalam keadaan waras dan sihat hendaknya. Pertama sekali saya nak meluahkan rasa simpati kepada YB kerana lately ni YB sering menjadi bualan orang ramai. Sejujurnya saya nampak benar keikhlasan YB dalam membentuk masyarakat Malaysia Baharu ni. Kadang-kadang bila YB cemas dan mati akal bila dihujani soalan-soalan cepumas dari wartawan-wartawan […]
Masalah kalau bagi budak jadi menteri
Oleh: Abdul Rahim Hilmi Zakariya Lim Teong Kim merupakan Pengarah NFDP (Program Pembangunan Bola Sepak Kebangsaan). Dia bukan pengurus skuad B-16 negara sahaja. NFDP ini melatih akar umbi bermula dari skuad B-12 sehingga skuad B-17. Jika hendak mengukur kejayaan LTK ini, kita perlu lihat kemajuan semua pasukan yang berada di bawah program NFDP. Contohnya skuad […]
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Malaysian Education System Does Not Nurture Talents
For almost a week now Malaysiakini joined liberal media outlets attacking our education minister. Malaysiakini trying so hard, publishing Op-Ed on daily basis attacking Maszlee. Its funny in some way looking at their behaviour. I’m not a fan of Maszlee, I really not. So I will not use the pathetic tagline such as “A rakyat […]
Ahlan Wa Sahlan Ya Ramadhan
Alhamdulillah syukur ke hadrat Allah SWT di atas nikmatnya yang melimpah ruah buat kita semua. Selawat dan salam ke atas junjungan Nabi Muhammad SAW. Penantian kita kepada Saiyidus Syuhur hanya berbaki 3 hari lagi. Sebagai umat Islam, kita seharusnya berasa gembira dengan kedatangan satu bulan yang penuh dengan barakah sebagai tanda kasih dan cinta dari […]
Peranan satira dalam mencorak arena politik
Antara program satira yang saya minati adalah program yang dikelola oleh John Oliver di HBO dan Stephen Colbert di CBS. Colbert lebih memfokuskan satiranya kepada daily political commentaries, jadi programnya berterusan dan hampir setiap hari. Dia hanya perlu mengolah semula sebarang peristiwa semalam dan dalam bentuk satira. Oliver pula sirinya lebih memfokus berkenaan dengan sesuatu […]
Membaca – berbicara dengan hantu
Otak manusia merupakan satu ciptaan yang mengkagumkan. Kita bukan sahaja boleh mengawal pergerakan badan dari dalam, tetapi mampu menganalisa dunia luar. Otak kita berbeza dengan makhluk lain seperti haiwan yang tidak mampu mencipta konsep dan teori abstrak melangkaui batasan dunia fizikal. Contohnya konsep kenegaraan tidak dapat difahami oleh monyet, jadi monyet dari Indonesia tidak berasa […]
Hikayat Din Kapal : Pahlawan Yang Kehilangan Keris
*Tulisan ini adalah dari sudut pandang penulis sahaja. Saya ada seorang kawan. Nama panggilannya Din Kapal, kerana dia juga datang dari bidang kerja yang sama seperti saya dahulu, di syarikat perkapalan walaupun dia dan saya tidak lah bekerja di bawah satu bumbung. Di waktu lapang, kami gemar meluangkan masa bersama di kedai mamak, menghirup kopi […]
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Tenaganita – Attorney-General’s office failed to bring justice for Adelina!
Employer acquitted of domestic worker Adelina’s death, walks freeWhere is JUSTICE for ADELINA? Adelina Sao, 21, died in Bukit Mertajam hospital on 11th February 2018 from organ failure. When she was rescued, she was found sleeping outside the employer’s home with the employer’s dog. Her employers reportedly didn’t want the pus oozing from her body […]
Yuran UTM-MJIIT naik 529% – Mahasiswa Bangkit Boikot Kelas
SUDAH pelbagai cara dan alternatif yang dibangun mahasiswa UTM – MJIIT Voices, berkaitan isu kenaikan yuran yang meningkat sebanyak 529% di universiti mereka namun penguasa, pihak pentadbiran masih gagal menjawab persoalan yang dilontarkan mahasiswa. Maka, esok (Selasa), Jam 10.00 pagi akan diadakan Aksi Demonstrasi dan Boikot Kelas MJIIT di hadapan pagar UTMKL untuk membawa tuntutan […]
Sidang Media MJIIT, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia berkaitan Isu Yuran Melampau
Seramai 50 mahasiswa/i telah melakukan sidang media untuk mendedahkan yuran tambahan yang menindas di bawah fakulti Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology di Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur. UTM mengenakan yuran tambahan sehingga RM5,000 untuk sebuah semester berbanding RM700 yang dijanji surat tawaran UTM. Yuran tambahan menjadikan bayaran untuk 4 tahun sebanyak RM40,000 yang […]
The Iron Man of India
Picture 1 : India Times India has unveiled its mega statue of Sardar Patel – The tallest statue in the world as the symbol of its independence movement. The statue located at about 3.5 km downstream the Sardar Sarovar Dam near Rajpipla, 100 km southeast of the city Vadodara. The ceremony held in Wednesday, in […]
Lion Air crash in Indonesia
The tragedy of Lion Air JT 610 has been the headlines since Monday. The Boeing 737 with 189 people on board took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 06:20 local time and scheduled to arrive at Pangkal Pinang crashed into seas off Jakarta just after 13 minutes into flight. It was reported that the pilot had made a […]
Book Review
Income inequality by Matthew P. Drennan – Book Review
What was missing in the economic theory that lead to the financial crisis in 2008-09? This was the first question Drennan want to answer in this book. His thesis is that income inequality plays a role in the lead-up to the financial crisis by maintaining consumption through surging household debt. The second question he asks […]
23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism – Book Review
If you have read ‘Freakonomics’ by Dubner & Levitt and searching for a kind of book that provide the same unconventional, myth-busting analysis on economics occurrence, this book is definitely it! Written in layman term without heavy technical terms, Chang open the access gate to wide range of ordinary readers about the working of economics. […]
Every Nation for Itself – Book Review
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World by Ian Bremmer published by Portfolio Penguin in 2012. The book was written by Ian Bremmer which was also the author of ‘The End of the Free Market’. In this book, Bremmer put forward his thesis that the world is moving toward a leaderless […]
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media – Book Review
This book discussed the double-standard of U.S. foreign policies and the mass media who helped control public perception so that these policies can continue unimpeded. The propaganda propagated by U.S. media were discussed, the reasons for this phenomenon were given. Herman and Chomsky introduced a series of “filters” in their “propaganda model” which explain why […]
1948: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
There are several competing narratives about the tragedy that befell Palestinians in 1948. The Palestinians regarded the event as ‘Nakba’ or catastrophe in English. The Israeli regarded it as their victory and the foundation of their modern state. Ilan Pappe, the Chair in History at the University of Exeter, UK, however, challenge these two narratives. […]