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Forced marriage – downright cruel, merciless
by Frankie D'Cruz
TWO journalists, originally from Malaysia, have turbo-charged investigations into an international saga of forbidden love involving the honour killing of a young Indo-Canadian beautician nearly 12 years ago in India.
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10 years on, still stuck under a wheel
by Frankie D'Cruz
THE word outrage is often overused. The case of journalist David Chelliah who made headlines when a monorail wheel weighing about 14kg — the load of a full cooking gas tank — fell on his head and cracked his skull into eight pieces is a true outrage.

When the incident occurred 10 years ago it was played out at breakneck pace in the media and prompted soul-searching at the highest levels of offi cialdom.
Fight ahead for political middle ground
by Frankie D'Cruz

MAN-of-the-hour Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim came across as a pugilistic street fighter who fought with raw intensity during the tense, action-packed court battle to stave off an allegation of sodomy that gripped the world.

Sodomy II — conceived by his ex-aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan and embraced by detractors of the 64-year-old opposition leader — reached and maintained such a level of raw might that it is regarded by an overwhelming majority of respected observers as the most brutal of all political fights.

Tragic Convent unease
by Frankie D'Cruz

PETALING JAYA: THE mounting row between the Catholic owners of the 112-year-old SMK Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) and the Education Ministry over the controversial appointment of its new principal reeks of misguided defensive mentality.

The spirit of Christmas has been dampened by this dispute, now that a giant vampire squid taking the form of narrow-mindedness and intolerance has been unleashed to steadily suck the life out of an insensitive society until it is a husk.

Mysterious Balai Polis bin Kerinchi
by Frankie D'Cruz

KUALA LUMPUR: Encik Balai Polis bin Kerinchi may also be known as Balai bin Polis Kerinchi – and may not necessarily be Malay, an “insight” into this mystifying person who has suddenly become the most famous voter in the country has revealed.

We spent the whole of yesterday trying to find out if anyone in the vicinity of Balai Polis Kerinchi knew Balai Polis bin Kerinchi or Balai bin Polis Kerinchi, but even policemen there only knew the police station and recoiled at anyone bold enough to be named Balai Polis Kerinchi.