BUDGET 2009: THE PEOPLE’S BUDGET

In review with the freshly announced 2009 budget, clearly the government is well aware of the grieviences of the Rakyat. I soundly oppose the term used by Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, saying that this budget is ‘gula-gula’ to rakyat. This is not ‘gula-gula’, but a serious approach by the government to ease the burden of the rakyat. Overall, we can see that the [...]

MERDEKA: MOTHER OF ALL FREEDOM

OPEN DEBATE would like to wish every Malaysians , Happy Merdeka Day!!!!!!!!
Although this year’s Merdeka celebration is much outlined by the many political issues in this country, but as Malaysian, we must celebrate the day we got our freedom.
So, a quick comment to all those freedom of press fighters, freedom of speech warriors, and freedom [...]

THE PERMATANG PAUH

It has been a long time since i last submitted a post about our country’s political arene. But the truth is i cant resist talking about politics. Permatang pauh by-election is a good start. As expected, The incumbant Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim won the seat.
Historically, this seat has been his for so many elections now. [...]

Crime Rate in Malaysia

            In any country, crime is much a nuisance. Besides endangering public security and peace, crimes also caused millions from the government’s treasury to fund investigations, trials and maintaining prisons. Speaking about crime rate in Malaysia, the numbers are getting bigger and bigger. With rapid increment in population, more and more criminals are born. There [...]

POLL RESULT: DEBAT ANWAR VS SHABERY

LEARNING CULTURE IN ORGANISATIONS

This post is a bit diverged from politics. It’s more like a ‘holiday’ from writing about politic. For the simple reason-bored with local politic scene. Always the same drama. For this post i prefer more academic and conceptual issue as to fit OPEN DEBATE’s economical and social agenda. OPEN DEBATE is not just about politics [...]

POLITICS: A SHORT COMMENT

The love story: the pioneer and live happily ever after
For the past 50 years, love blossoms between UMNO, MCA, MIC and we call this the BN. The marriage is a win-win situation. All races benefit each other and we all manage the country to what the country is now. The BN pioneer every moves. If [...]

ARE WE WILLING TO BECOME ‘BANGSA MALAYSIA’?

Malays are racist. Chinese are racist. Indians too are racist. The rest are not much different.
Currently, this statement is my premise in writing this post.
Upon returning back from the 2nd Malaysian Student Leaders Summit last weekends, one question really troubles my mind posed by a political analysts, Khoo Key Peng  in one of the talks [...]