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No happy new year for Samy and Bernadette

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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.

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How economic inequality harms societies

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We can improve the real quality of human life by reducing the differences in incomes between us, says Richard Wilkinson, author of the ground-breaking ‘Spirit Level’ book.

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Federal government debt soars

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What does this tale of rising federal government debt mean for the country?

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Khay Jin: An out-of-the-box thinker

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The community of social science scholars and public intellectuals in Malaysia and Malaysianists are once again shocked and grieved, this time to hear of the untimely death of Khoo Khay Jin, a brilliant social scientist, a leading public intellectual and an out-of-the-box thinker.

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Year of the Cow?

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Have a look at the cover of the latest Aliran Monthly.

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A Christmas blessing: The Malaysia I wish for

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A couple of kind thoughts and gestures have brightened up Christmas Eve for us.

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Now anyone can become a citizen video-journalist

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Some scenes and interviews at the Penang Social Media Convention last Saturday.

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Two years jail for jobless man who stole shampoo

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What can you say?

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Tribute to Khoo Khay Jin

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Tonight the brilliant social scientist and statistics whiz Khoo Khay Jin succumbed to cancer at 9.00pm.

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Global economic crisis: In denial mode?

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Somehow the government appears to think that the effects of the global economic crisis will have minimal effects on the local economy. Is it in denial mode?

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