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DATUK Tan Lian Hoe’s suggestion that Gerakan pull out from the Barisan Nasional (BN) was the main focus of various commentators from the Chinese dailies. On 20 Aug 2008, Tan Poh Kheng wrote in Sin Chew Jit Poh that although many people applauded the party Wanita chief’s courage in speaking out, many were later surprised […]

BY far the most widely covered issue in the main Malay dailies between 16 and 22 Aug 2008 was the Permatang Pauh by-election campaigns. In a Sinar Harian report titled Permatang Pauh: Tsunami Kedua Umno on 18 Aug, Ishak Hamzah observed that the timing of the by-election could not have been worse for the Barisan […]

THE issue of the teacher from SMK Telok Panglima Garang who humiliated Tamil students with racist remarks in July 2008 remained in the news in the Tamil papers. On 16 Aug 2008, Makkal Osai reported that a coalition of Indian non-governmental organisations questioned why Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein has remained silent on the […]

SELANGOR Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim’s suggestion to allocate 10% of Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)’s admission quota to non-bumiputera and foreign students received very wide coverage in the Chinese media. Oriental Daily’s editorial writer Liew Ching Wen, in his article titled Study in UiTM? on 14 Aug 2008, said such as move would be […]

THE proposal by Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim to allocate a 10% quota for non-bumiputera students in UiTM received much coverage in most of the Malay dailies. In a report on 11 Aug 2008 titled Khalid Hina UiTM, Orang Melayu, Utusan Malaysia reported that the Higher Education Minister, Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin, chastised the Selangor […]

MOST of the Tamil dailies on 8 Aug 2008 highlighted that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was released on personal bond for the sodomy allegations against him. On the same day, Malaysia Nanban reported on the SMK Telok Panglima Garang secondary schoolteacher who is at the centre of a controversy for having humiliated Tamil students with […]