Great leadership

Premised upon my last three columns on patriotism, a small debate ensued on Facebook about whom or what defines good or great leadership. This column is my response to that query, but I would like to address it from a perspective of an RMC Old Putera, the alumni of the Royal Military College (RMC); our …

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The corruption of Umno?

I attended a book launch on the ‘The End of Umno?’ because my good friend Saifuddin Abdullah wrote the foreword and invited me to attend. Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, the veteran Umno member and the best prime minister we never had; gave the keynote and launch address. The book has four chapters contributed by four authors, …

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Finding the missing peace

I uphold five international personalities in our history as my personal heroes. They are Jesus of Nazareth, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela. Only one local personality makes the same grade to my mind – the late Dr Tan Chee Khoon, our foremost opposition leader of the independence generation who …

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MPs: Much ado about nothing

The current prime minister, in his first week of office before the general election and after his espousal of the \’work with me not for me\’ philosophy, and after kissing his mother\’s hand as a mark of respect, with thanks and gratitude for raising him to become the political leader of the biggest party in …

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A Malaysian identity?

I love the new advertising campaign by Telekom Malaysia to reflect her new identity. Neither are they paying me to write this piece. The News Straits Times (NST) reported that they are spending RM9million on this re-branding exercise through their advertising campaign. On the inside of the first pull-out cover page of their advert was the picture …

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NEP: Between theory and practice

When I started work in 1972, I had a hard choice to make. I was posted to the Implementation, Coordination and Development Administration Unit of the Prime Minister\’s Department and one of my jobs included monitoring and evaluating the success of bumiputera equity accumulation under the New Economic Policy (NEP). As an Indian, I had …

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Selangor: Whose developed status?

Selangor has rather arrogantly declared that it is now \’a developed state\’. Rather strangely, it did not use the services of any of the development agencies, either global or local, to verify its definition and declaration. The Economic Planning Unit (EPU) in the Prime Minister\’s Department or the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) would have …

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