Seeing as Umno is the biggest component party in BN and that, by default, the BN chairman and Umno president is also the country’s prime minister, the MACC’s reminder is essentially directed at the government and its leaders.
Who is Maria Ozawa and why is she a trending hashtag on Malaysia’s social media map? I for one have never heard of her. Is she someone famous?
The deputy prime minister is contradicting himself when he says that everyone needs to practice self-censorship, yet still encouraging the society to write more books.
Such is the way many Malaysians seem to view religion: without logic or reasoning and merely rituals and blind faith.
Thaqif was a young boy who had his whole life ahead of him and for no justified reasons, he was treated the way he was. The system that allowed it to happen has to be brought to justice.
Politicians must simply learn to digest this reality or forget their political aspirations altogether. All this comes with their willingness to be honest.
If given the choice, I would take public transportation everywhere I go. But I have to say that it is almost impossible to do so because of how the country has been designed.
At the end of the day, reality will set in – if we are living hand to mouth, and God forbid something happens, like a car accident or a hospital visit, and we can’t find the funds to fix it, intrinsic motivators do not mean much.
When I started working in 2000, the starting pay for a fresh graduate with a college degree was about RM2,000. Within five years, I managed to buy an affordable local car and a medium-cost walk-up apartment.
The question here is why are there those who managed to escaped the cycle when so many others remained trapped in the same social reproduction?
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