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What’s New in the Library: December 2011

IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2011 Author          : Prof. Stephanie Garelli Publisher       : World Competitiveness Center ISBN    : 9782970051459 Year   : 2011 For over 20 years, the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) has benchmarked the performance of the world’s most competitive economics. In its 2011 edition, the WCY includes 59 economies, extending its coverage in emerging [...]

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NST – Celebrating the scribe in all forms

January 15, 2012 | By Professor A. Murad Merican I AM not amused with academics who have a condescending view of journalism and the press. Perhaps I should not expect them to hold journalists and the press in high regard. Or perhaps, too, their frame of reference is based on their experiences of newspapers and [...]

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FT – West needs to go back to capitalist basics

January 11, 2012 | By Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad The Malays have a saying which inter alia means that when you lose your way, go back to the beginning and start again. I believe that everyone has lost their way in handling the current financial crisis. The west in particular needs to rethink some essentials. [...]

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NST – VOTING: Make sure your vote counts

January 13, 2012 | By Anas Zubedy, Kuala Lumpur THERE is a big segment of more than four million eligible voters in Malaysia who have not registered as voters. There are another four million who are registered voters but do not vote. There could be various reasons for this — perhaps they are too busy [...]

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The Star – Social class comes into play

CERITALAH January 3, 2012 | By KARIM RASLAN While race remains an issue in the Malaysian political discourse, the matter of social class is now becoming a key determining factor. FOR the last 50 years, Malaysian politics has been defined by race. From the Malayan Union controversy of 1946 to the riots of 1969, Malay [...]

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