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Inisiatif Ekonomi Rakyat 2019
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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 […]
FundMyHOME: Yay or Nay?
Image source : Yahoo SG In the recent Budget 2019 speech presented by Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng, he mentioned on a scheme to help […]
Ulasan: Cadangan caj tambahan untuk kenderaan dan perkhidmatan feri Pulau Pinang
Saya terpanggil untuk memberikan komen dan buah pandangan terhadap berita yang dilaporkan oleh Utusan Online semalam yang mana sebuah laporan bertajuk “Caj kenderaan berdaftar […]
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 […]
‘Athirah’: Dilema Seorang Isteri
sumber foto : Jakarta Globe IMDB Rating : 7.6/10 Author Rating: 9/10 Sejujurnya jiwa saya tersentuh dengan lakonan Cut Mini Theo sebagai “Bu Mus” di […]
Politics
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 […]
Xifu Naser Pensyarah Lembu UIAM
Siswazah Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM), Huda Ramli membalas kritikan yang dilemparkan kepada aktivis yang melakukan duduk protes sebagai membantah pencabulan autonomi universiti oleh Menteri Pendidikan, Maszlee Malik. “Kalau aku dikatanya lembu, jadi dialah bapa lembu” tulis Huda dalam kenyataan yang dikeluarkan di laman Facebook beliau. Hal ini kerana Xifu Naser adalah pensyarah beliau yang […]
Blog
Ulasan: Cadangan caj tambahan untuk kenderaan dan perkhidmatan feri Pulau Pinang
Saya terpanggil untuk memberikan komen dan buah pandangan terhadap berita yang dilaporkan oleh Utusan Online semalam yang mana sebuah laporan bertajuk “Caj kenderaan berdaftar di luar P. Pinang elak kesesakan” telah di muat naik di portal tersebut. Jason Ong Khan Lee (PKR-Kebun Bunga) telah mencadangkan agar Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang untuk mengenakan caj terhadap […]
Netizenism: Feeding the Monster
One of the fine book to understand how propaganda and social media works best was Ryan Holiday’s work through his book ‘Trust me I’m lying’. He brilliantly explained how publicist and propagandist used readers emotion such as anger and hate, to put forward their argument, swayed public opinion for their political purpose, and market their […]
Kepentingan negara: Perspektif dekonstruk
Antara pemikiran Howard Zinn yang sangat mengesani pemikiran saya sehingga ke hari ini adalah dekonstruk terhadap konsep kepentingan negara (national interest). Dalam melihat dan menilai sesuatu keputusan, soalan yang pertama yang perlu ditanya adalah ianya baik untuk siapa? Dalam dekonstruksi pemikiran ini, Zinn menerangkan bahawa konsep kepentingan negara adalah satu konsep yang digunakan oleh golongan […]
Titik biru malap
Voyager-1 dilancarkan pada 5 September 1977 dari Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Amerika Syarikat. Antara misinya adalah untuk mengkaji planet-planet dengan lebih dekat. Pada 14 Febuari 1990, Voyager-1 telah mengembara jauh, sekitar 6 billion kilometer dari bumi, tempat asal ia berlepas. Namun berkat hasil tangan manusia dengan akal kurniaan tuhan, Voyager-1 masih dapat […]
Surat untuk Y.B
Kehadapan Y.B yang dihormati, Berat rasanya hati saya untuk menulis surat ini. Mungkin disebabkan faktor usia atau boleh jadi juga disebabkan telah lama meninggalkan hal ehwal tulis menulis ini. Sejak beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini, saya lebih suka membaca dari menulis. Tapi saya gagahkan juga tangan ini atas faktor desakan perasaan yang tak terbendung lagi. […]
News
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 […]
Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi on World Refugee Day 2018
Geneva, 20 June 2018 – Today, World Refugee Day, is a time for solidarity with refugees – and with the communities that welcome them. As conflicts emerge, recur, persist and deepen, 68.5 million people are uprooted around the world. Nine out of ten are in their own countries or countries next door, and the impact […]
Malaysians protest Trump’s immigration ban
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 — Over 100 Malaysians demonstrated today against the temporary US immigration ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees. The protest, which lasted for over an hour in front of the US Embassy here, was led by Opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan along with Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM), joined by […]
Singapore to study Malaysia’s challenge to Pulau Batu Puteh judgment
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia, citing “new facts” discovered in recently declassified British documents, has filed a challenge to the 2008 decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that ruled Pedra Branca to be Singaporean territory. Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in response that the Republic is “studying Malaysia’s application and documentation closely”, and […]
Book Review
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. […]
Brain Research: Understanding Young Mind
This book explored the minds of young people, how they operate and how we can harness them instead of suppressing them. Adults, Siegel observed, usually loved routine, predictable schedule, which do away with creative exploration and makes life boring, almost lifeless. This is very different from a young mind, adolescent, which always experimenting, and […]
Why America is losing in Iraq and Afghanistan
As Howard Zinn brilliantly puts it “you cannot be neutral on a moving train”. This book was written from the perspective of American’s interest on why they are losing their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The short answer is that America doesn’t have a clear quantifiable objective. Now, let’s deplore the long answer as […]
Whose Bible Is It?
The Bible has many versions. We have King James Version, Revised Standard Version, New Revised Standard Version, Jerusalem Bible and a lot more others. Pelikan asked, what if a person want to buy the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible? Which one he should purchase. To answer this question, Pelikan brought […]
Mao: From librarian to Chairman of Communist China
This small book which tries to tell a story about one huge world leader, really helps readers in a sense that you can understand a huge subject with fewer pages. Of course, it needs simplification, and also selection, in order to achieve this goal. A layman about the subject, I find the book helpful […]