Sajakkini

Josh Hong

Imagine you are entrusted with the task of organising a party celebrating the founding of a neighbourhood committee soon. What would you do if two of the big players in the locality are quarreling with one another? Would you try to patch things up before the party, or call it off altogether?

Such was the dilemma uppermost on Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s mind when he delivered his keynote address at the Asia-Pacific Roundtable in Kuala Lumpur recently.

In his speech, the prime minister expressed his misgivings over the deteriorating bilateral relationship between the two East Asian giants – China and Japan – and appeared wary of its implications for the region as a whole. (more…)

Hishamuddin Rais

Presiden Gerakan, Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik berkata, beliau menyokong cadangan Kementerian Kesihatan membekalkan jarum suntikan dan kondom secara percuma kepada penagih dadah bagi mengelak penyebaran penyakit HIV.

(Utusan Malaysia- 6 Jun 2005)

Pergerakan Pemuda Umno Negeri Sembilan menolak cadangan Kementerian Kesihatan membekalkan jarum suntikan dan kondom percuma kepada penagih dadah mulai Oktober depan bagi mengurangkan kadar jangkitan HIV.

Ketuanya, Ir. Jamlus Aziz berkata, cadangan tersebut hanya membazirkan wang rakyat dan secara tidak langsung menggalakkan lagi penagihan dadah.

(Utusan Malaysia - 28 Rabiul Akhir 1426)

Kadar jangkitan HIV dan Aids di negara ini kini berada pada tahap membimbangkan. Ini adalah suatu hakikat yang nyata. (more…)

Leon Wing

There were so many people who’d arrived, and were now talking to her, some putting a hand on her arm or shoulder, all mouthing the same words, or almost the same ones: …so sorry about your husband/grand dad/uncle/grand uncle/father/our relation of once/twice/that many times removed. These were her children, grandchildren, relatives, friends of hers and of her dead husband, most of them somber and subdued, except for a few, mostly women, who made some keening noises, drawing attention to them (and her), which she didn’t try to curb.While she nodded, without speaking or seeming to respond to their commiserations, they imagined she must be oh so grief stricken to be almost rendered speechless. But really, she was wondering about how her hair was looking to them, and about her clothes, all starched and in only black, even the shoes and the cowl, now that every mirror in the house in which she shared with her husband of fifty years had to covered up in white paper, following some funeral tradition. (more…)