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LETTER | Sallehs death reminds us who the real dictator is Modified18 Jan 2021, 1:20 am A - LETTER | Last week, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad called his successor Muhyiddin Yassin a dictator over the latters decision to impose emergency rule in the country. But as fate would have it, former Lord President Salleh Abas passed away over the weekend. Salleh was a towering figure in the legal world. His death has only served as a reminder of Mahathirs chequered past in issues relating to...

3:26 PM MYT KUALA LUMPUR: The proclamation of Emergency did not plunge Malaysia into a dictatorship, says Marzuki Mohamad. The Prime Ministers principal private secretary said the Emergency Ordinance 2021 did not establish laws without trials such as the Internal Security Act (ISA). "Mentris Besar and state executive councils, which existed before the proclamation of Emergency, will continue to conduct their executive duties in their respective states. "The Federal Government did not take over ...

Published on: Sunday, January 17, 2021 Text Size: Credit: connectsafely.org HATE speech in Malaysia tends to evolve around race and religion. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been some that were directed at foreign workers/illegal migrants. Some started with pointing fingers at the initial outbreak, blaming it on tourists’ from China.  It is time we have laws against hate speech in this country. One of the biggest concerns we have on “more laws controlling speech”...

The ‘good-governance’ problem How India’s top bureaucrats saw the end of the Emergency, and why it’s relevant today. M G Abrol was presumably asleep in his house when, in the early hours of 21 March 1977, the noise of a telephone rang through the halls. The additional secretary in the Ministry of Finance might not have been surprised to hear the voice of his equivalent at the Ministry of Home Affairs, P P Nayyar, at 2.30 am in the morning. For the past twenty months, India had been unde...

SINGAPORE - Yeng Pway Ngon, one of Singapore’s most eminent Chinese-language writers, died on Sunday (Jan 10) after a long battle with cancer. The Cultural Medallion recipient and three-time Singapore Literature Prize winner was 16 days shy of his 74th birthday. He wrote more than 20 works, including acclaimed novels such as Unrest (2002), Trivialities About Me And Myself (2006) and Art Studio (2011). The latter two were selected by the journal Asia Weekly for its prestigious annual list of t...

SINGAPORE: Dickson Yeo, a Singaporean who recruited US officials to provide classified political and defence information to China has been ...

Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020 02:07 PM MYT Dickson Yeo was convicted in the US to a spying charge and had been sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment in October 2019. — Dickson Yeo/Facebook image via TODAY Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. SINGAPORE, Dec 30 — Dickson Yeo, the Singaporean who was jailed in the United States for spying for China earlier this year, has been arrested under the Internal Security Act after serving out his US sentence. He ...

- Advertisement - Dickson Yeo, the Singaporean man who spied for China while in the US has been arrested after returning to Singapore on Wednesday (Dec 30), said the Internal Security Department (ISD). He was arrested under the Internal Security Act upon his return. Yeo has admitted in the United States federal court to have worked for the Chinese intelligence for monetary rewards. He was subsequently sentenced to 14 months in prison by a US court on Oct 9. The ISD said that Yeo will be intervi...

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