Did you catch the BFM interview with Islamic religious scholar Reza Aslan?
Start the interview at 19:30 to hear what he has to say about the Allah controversy.
Also read Tommy Thomas’ The Allah decision is wrong in constitutional law (Aliran).
And this is a statement by Archbishop Murphy Pakiam, the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia:
The small island republic plans to create 700km of cycling paths by 2030. Are we going to be left behind again as we continue our love affair with the car while pouring billions of ringgit into road and related infrastructure?
While quite a few developed nations have their highest income tax rate at around 40-50 per cent, Malaysia has been steadily reducing its income tax and corporate tax rates. No wonder we have been posting persistent fiscal deficits.
Students were warned not to attend the event but close to a thousand people turned up.
In a separate interview in Adelaide, Anwar spoke on the prospects and barriers to political opposition in Malaysia, the Allah controversy and the lessons of the Arab Spring.
Incumbents Zahid Hamidi, Shafie Apdal and Hishammuddin Hussein are in the lead in the Umno party elections today for the three posts of vice-president, according to unofficial results cited by Utusan.
Zahid – 185
Shafie – 174
Hisham – 100
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Mukhriz – 91
Isa Samad – 8
Ali Rustam – 7
(1.40am, 20 October – results from 188 out of 191 divisions)
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Final results:
Zahid – 188
Shafie – 177
Hisham – 101
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Mukhriz – 93
Berita Kampus, the USM communications lab newspaper, was temporarily held back yesterday after a farewell profile on highly regarded media lecturer Dr Mustafa K Anuar appeared. For some reason, the School of Communication had a change of heart and released the newspaper yesterday evening just as the news was beginning to spread on social media.
The political gymnastics continue. According to the Borneo Post, Najib has broken his silence over the ‘Allah’ controversy and has declared that the court decision is not applicable to East Malaysia, the region considered to be the “fixed deposit” of the BN.
Over the past few years, many Malaysians have realised what business journal Forbes has now articulated: Malaysia’s economy, complete with high property prices, low interest rates, rising federal government and household indebtedness, shows all the signs of a classic credit and property bubble. When is it going to pop?
This letter by a young woman to the PM outlining the problem of coping with the higher cost of living in urban areas is trending hotly on cyberspace:
The government says it wants to remove subsidies. But what about the subsidies enjoyed by the super-rich corporate elites and their corporations – soft loans, incentives, ever lower corporate tax rates, lop-sided concessions, pioneer status tax breaks, capital allowances, tax deductions, etc?