HIGHLIGHTS OF NOVEMBER 2003

Cover Story: Affirmative Action for the Marginalised

 

 

 

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EDITORIAL : AFFIRMATIVE ACTION GOOD, BUT…

The “poor” include those who weep and bleed under oppression, those being marginalised and the discriminated against on grounds of gender, race or creed.

 

 

Dr Mahathir’s cal for meritocracy was forced upon him by the encroachment of globalisation.

   AFFIRMATIVE POLICIES

BY KIM QUEK

A solution to Discrimination in Malaysia.

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RELIGION MARGINALISES

GENDER roles were already defined from the earliest times of our human history. Those cultural patterns eventually became incorporated within religion and religion in turn reinforced this disparity of gender inequality in the form of male domination.       

BY DAVID ANTHONY

 

FOCUS

 

THE ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF RAMADHAN & AIDILFITRI

BY SULTAN MOHAMED SHAH AGA KHAN III

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 SAYING “YES” TO NON-RACIAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

BY NIK NAZMI NIK AHMAD

The Indian community in Malaysia is being marginalised.

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REFLECTION

Frank Doyle’s Thought for the Month

 

LIFE GOES ON AND ON

What happens when we die?

PREFERENCE FOR CHINESE SCHOOLS

BY DAN GUEN CHIN & DEBORAH LOH

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WONDERINGS

 

THE PAIN OF THE CAMPAIGN!

Aneel David Kannabhiran gets paranoid about the Barisan Nasional

COMMENTARY

MENDICANT MINISTER TO THE MARGINALISED

BY TERENCE NETTO

In his book “Speaking Truth To Power” the affinity of Dr Jeyakumar for Malaysia’s downtrodden is salutary but his socialistic nostrums for their woes are suspect.

ASIA

 

CELIBACY IS INTEGRAL SAYS POPE

FROM UCAN

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INTERNATIONAL

LITURGICAL DANCE IS OK

Pope’s chief liturgist defends use of dance in papal masses

FROM CNS

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FINE TUNING:

 

VATICAN IN HIV-CONDOM ROW

BY THE LISTENER

 

 

DIARY 2004

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