I joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) in January 1992 after returning from pursuing but not having completed my PhD. Miti did even not know I was to report for duty. As it was the first day of the month and year, I was ushered to an official meeting called a ‘morning …
My father was a founder member of Kedah MIC; one of the original four who helped to set it up in Kedah in the early 50s. Nonetheless, having grown up around the atmosphere and politics of the party and having heard and observed the crab-culture of its adherents; many years ago I decided to stay …
When Jesus walked the earth in the days of old, once, the Jewish religious teachers and law enforcers asked him a trick question: Should we pay taxes to Caesar or God? This was a trick question because it was a loaded question. Let us look at the context in which Jesus was supposed to answer …
In Chinese culture, it is said that ‘the fish rots from the head’. Is the 5,000-year-old cultural saying wrong? If not, what is it that makes institutions become corrupt over time? What has made civilisations themselves corrupt, leading to their extinction, such as that of Babylonia or Egypt? What has made the Christian culture and …
I am a founder member of the National Innovation Foundation, by the invitation of the Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Maximus Ongkili ( below ). Recently we had our first AGM when the newly appointed CEO gave a full briefing on its the activities and strategies. On the same foundation sits Tan Sri Dr Augustine Ong, who …
Recently, by a sheer act of incompetence in the handling of policing duties, a 14-year old citizen died in a police shooting. A police corporal is charged for second degree murder, defined as a non-premeditated killing, resulting from an assault in which death of the victim was a distinct possibility. They may call it collateral damage internally, …
