“Have you applied for the RM500 already?”
While the global economic crisis provides an air of foreboding over trade-reliant Malaysia, Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government is splurging on a wide range of cash handouts ahead of elections many analysts expect him to declare later this year.
Income inequality has remained high over the years, and this may partly explain the increase in some of the social problems in the country.
The year 2011 will be remembered for the decision to do away with the ISA – a move which vindicates the half-century long struggle against this oppressive law.
The high-handed police action action against the university students at Tanjung Malim has handed the BN an awful start to the New Year.
31 December 2011 – While many of us are looking forward to a long New Year weekend holiday, for people like Samy and Bernadette, there is little to celebrate.
