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Snacking on the difference in attitudes and competencies between the English Court of Appeal and the Malaysian Court of Appeal.
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On Facebook, a group entitled "Kami Golongan Benci Flute Dan Serunai" is started gaining 155000 members in 3 hours. Apparently, 149999 of them are new Facebook members since the morning before the group was started. Meanwhile, the group "All Malays and Malaysians Clueless Apathetic Liberals Who Don't Mind The Flute As Long As We Are...
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The refusal by the AG's Chambers to release some evidence requested by the defence team in the Sodomy 2 trial - and the consequent refusal by the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court to order the release of such evidence - brings to the fore questions pertaining to the right to a fair...
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The failings of the political Malay are discovered in the burning ashes of the churches attacked in Kuala Lumpur.
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I continued scooping the thick creamed mushroom soup with the spoon. Suddenly the spoon touched on something hard, buried somewhere under the thick mushroom soup. My curiosity took over. I scooped and scooped and scooped. And OMG... I screamed, "WAITER, THERE IS A JET ENGINE IN MY SOUP!!!"
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The absurdity of it all. And not to mention the audacity of it all. And as if to further add sodium chloride to the wide gaping wounds that all of us, Malaysians, suffer every time our so called leaders forget to take their medications, we are told that so and so have been sacked...
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Ahmad and Ah Boy would be standing face to face, about 2 feet apart. No one moved. Ahmad was waiting for Ah Boy to make the first move and vice versa. The crowd, which of course would include me, would wait and wait. When are you two brave guys gonna go at each other...
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It’s really tough being a Judge. Really, I think it’s a thankless job. A Judge can never do any right. I think it was in 1996 that a soon-to-be-really-famous High Court Judge politely asked me and my opponent whether we would mind to remain in his chambers for some small talk after we had...
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Art Harun deconstructs Tun Zaki's new KPI-inspired leadership and shows it for what it is.
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Imagine you are an alien being from some planet far far away in the globular star clusters M80, 23,000 light years away from Earth. You had just arrived on Earth after traveling in a space craft called Pro-Ton, your premier national space craft manufacturer. You have traveled 23,000 light years to be here. You are...
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