Yesterday, there was a flurry of social media messages that the King had resigned. Can His Majesty do that? That is the question. What is the answer?
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Can Cabinet Ministers quarrel in public?
Public spats between ministers is on the rise. Is there a law against it? How does parliamentary democracy operate in these situations? If ministers feel strongly about something, what should they do? Should they express public dissent? These are good questions. What is the answer?
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Should party-hopping be outlawed?
The country has been suffering from two things during this rainy reason. The one is the flu. The other is the increasing cacophony of frogs in the night. This proliferation of amphibian love calls has had an odd effect on the local politicians. Some opposition politicians, it seems, have turned amphibian. Where is this all going to lead us? Should we outlaw it?
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Who will police the police? [Part-2: Solutions]
In Part-1, we saw how more and more people are dying in police custody. Suppose you are in charge. Given all the resources, how would you prevent this? What questions will you ask yourself? What systems will you put into place? What would you do?
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Who will police the Police? [Part-1]: The Problem
Hundreds of people continue to die in police custody. What has been the history of this problem?
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Adakah penerimaan ICERD akan menggugat hak orang Melayu?
Apa itu ‘ICERD’? [Konvensyen Antarabangsa Mengenai Penghapusan Segala Bentuk Diskriminasi Kaum]? Adakah ia menjejaskan Hak Melayu yang ditegakkan dalam Perkara 153 Perlembagaan Persekutuan? Apa yang perlu dilakukan oleh Malaysia? Meratifikasinya, atau menolaknya? Bagaimanakah negara-negara Muslim lain menangani isu ini? Teruskan membaca untuk mengetahuinya.
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Malay Rights, ICERD, Cikgu Khairuddin and Mr Nava
Shortly after the so called 'Malay Rights Provisions' were entrenched into the Constitution, two teachers, one ethnic Malay, and the other an ethnic Indian took a pupil - like so many others - and set him on his way. This is their story. What would these men have done had they been confronted with the kind of racist Hate Speeches we've encountered all of last week?
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Will Malaysia’s ratification of ICERD injure Malay Rights?
What is the 'International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination' (‘ICERD’)? Does it prejudice Malay Rights entrenched in Article 153 of our Constitution? What should Malaysia do? Ratify it, or denounce it? How have other Muslim countries dealt with it? Read on.
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Judges are the judicial equivalent of US Navy Seals. They are a select few. Their training is severe. Their work is unremitting. They have but three abiding qualities: to defend the Federal Constitution, to render justice; and to live with quiet honour. Should we not, as a nation, aspire for those qualities in our judges?
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Is the selection of judges transparent?
Is the current method of selecting judges, transparent? Should it be? What can be done to improve it?
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