LONDON, Dec 4 - Indian commentators have spoken of the poorly equipped Mumbai Police and a highly corrupt procurement system that has blighted police training and its subsequent mediocre response to the last week’s deadly attacks by armed gunmen.
A report in The Times said Indian police who bore the brunt of last week’s attacks on [...]

CHICAGO - Nearly two years ago, Barack Obama muscled his way into the top tier of presidential contenders by breaking fundraising records.
When the 2008 campaign books are closed, the Democratic president-elect will shatter another record by coming close to, or capturing, the title of the first billion-dollar candidate.
That’s roughly how much the Obama finance team [...]

from Blog : Selvarajah Somiah
Do you know that the Malaysian Government pays RM5300 per year as rental for Sabah to the Sulu Sultanate heirs? They don’t call it rental or lease but cession money and the Malaysian Government has been paying this RM5300 since the formation of Malaysian Federation in 1963.
Lets get a little inside [...]

Kuala Lumpur — Biro Pendidikan, Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO Malaysia hari ini mencadangkan agar Sekolah Wawasan diberi nafas baru berbanding cadangan untuk menutup sekolah pendidikan vernakular dalam usaha memantapkan lagi perpaduan kaum di negara ini.
Pengerusinya, Ahmad Ikmal Ismail berkata semua pihak seharusnya memberi ruang dan peluang kepada penubuhan Sekolah Wawasan seperti yang diusahakan pada satu ketika [...]

When President-Elect Obama announced the members of his economic team this week, he tried to prepare the country for the fact that economic recovery would take time. He stated pointedly that things are likely to get worse before they get better. He might well have added that, if the past is any indicator, things are [...]

Former Indonesian President Bacharudin Jusuf Habibie said that dynasty in national leadership is long overdue and no more appropriate.
“Dynasty in leadership is no longer appropriate, it is overdue. Today, anybody can be a national leader regardless of ethnicity, religion, race, inter-groups and age.” he said in a discussion themed “What is wrong with our country,” [...]

How many of these Goals from the Communist of 1963 are now the primary goals of liberals and democrats in 2004. The more you read [...]

A DESPERATE attempt by Thailand’s royalist and extreme-right People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to cause chaos and force the army to seize power has had a somewhat different outcome. On Wednesday November 26th, a day after the PAD’s yellow-shirted supporters seized Bangkok’s main international airport, the army chief, General Anupong Paochinda, ordered the government to [...]

At lunch today, I spoke to a good friend and a journalist about Malaysian politicians. He opined they are a complacent lot. I would like to add that many of these politicians are incompetent too.
We elected politicians to help us govern the country. Politicians should work hand-in-hand with the public, NGOs and businesses to drive [...]

A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.
Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s [...]