Wednesday December 28, 2005Ignominious endBy MARINA MAHATHIR What an ignominious way to end the year! The Government admits that it got Parliament to pass a law that was unjust and discriminatory to half the population. As a member of that particular half, I am gobsmacked. How could this have happened? The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry claims to have found even more flaws in the...
28 December 2005
22 December 2005
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 22 December 2005
Wednesday December 14, 2005Closing the gap By MARINA MAHATHIR A young boy gets slashed in the stomach and dies. Another young man gets beaten unconscious and needs a blood clot removed from his brain. All of a sudden, parents have even more to worry about than usual. Life in Kuala Lumpur is violent as it is. Every day we read about bag snatchings, robberies, assaults, rapes and murders, all within...
06 December 2005
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 06 December 2005
Wednesday November 30, 2005Lip service is uselessBy MARINA MAHATHIR It's another World AIDS Day tomorrow and there is some good news to announce. According to the latest UN AIDS report, sustained efforts “have yielded decreases in HIV incidence among men who have sex with men in many Western countries, among young people in Uganda, among sex workers and their clients in Thailand and Cambodia, and...
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