In Perspective

InPerspectiveMay21
FINALLY, it was announced on May 7 by the de facto law minister that the formation of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah is on.
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BARDOT, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez ... Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk rock, Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline, Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russian’s in Afghanistan ... We didn’t start the fire; it was always burning, since the world’s been turning ..

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POLICE dramas have always been successful themes for television series.

I remember The Highway Patrol as a kid. Then we had hit shows like Streets of San Francisco, Ironside, Hill Street Blues, Starsky and Hutch, Miami Vice and Law and Order.

There is no mystery as to the attraction. The police ambit of responsibilities covers virtually all facets of human activity.

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LIM LIAN GEOK, who passed away in 1985 at the age of 81, is honoured by educationists and activists of Chinese lineage as the “soul of the Malaysian Chinese”.
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JUDGES have on occasion ignored reactions like a thumping or grunts, maybe because they thought the punishment was harsh but the law demanded it; or that the subject was a “victim” of poor legal representation.

To me, these judges were maintaining court decorum most judiciously.
YewMengMarch13

SEVERAL years ago, a notable from Perak profoundly suggested that all HIV-infected should be quarantined in an island securely fenced up.

His contention is that the rest of us “innocents” must be safeguarded.

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A CURVE ball is an American slang meaning being misled, deceived or about life’s unwelcome surprises. It’s derived from a curveball, which is a baseball pitch.

Suja is a 30-year-old housewife happily married with three children – the eldest; a boy Baba is in Standard Three in a large (enrolment about 350) Tamil school, commonly referred to as SJKT, in Kuala Lumpur.
 
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