Azmi Sharom (right, making a point) and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad KUALA LUMPUR, 22 May 2009: A parliamentary roundtable meeting comprising opposition Members of Parliament (MPs), academics, and former Public Services Department (PSD) scholars have called for a “wholesale revamp” of the scholarship system. Among the resolutions adopted by the roundtable was the formation of […]
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Kugan’s final journey
By Deborah Loh and Zedeck SiewCorrected on 28 Jan 2009 at 11.30pm IT was not an ordinary death, and so it was not an ordinary funeral. A Kugan’s funeral on 28 Jan 2009 drew hundreds of people who followed his body in a procession from the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) across Petaling Jaya to Puchong Batu 14, where he […]
Kugan buried in Puchong (Final update at 7.00pm)
By Deborah Loh and Zedeck SiewCorrected on 28 Jan 2009 at 6.10pm Updated on 28 Jan 2009 at 7.00pm Demonstrator’s tshirt slogan demanding justice, outside UMMC PUCHONG JAYA: 28 Jan 2009: A Kugan’s body was lowered into the ground at a Puchong cemetery today at 5.25pm, surrounded by about 500 mourners despite an earlier downpour. “One of the reasons he […]