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Temuramah Dengan Pembikin Filem Amir Muhamad
PEMBABITAN SAYA DALAM profesion kewartawanan membolehkan saya bertemu dengan mereka yang mungkin tidak akan saya temui jika bukan kerana bidang kerjaya yang saya ceburi. Pembikin filem kontroversi, Amir Muhamad, merupakan seorang daripada mereka.
Amir berada di Singapura pada Mac lepas sebagai ahli panel dalam satu majlis anjuran National University of Singapore. Saya berkesempatan menemubual beliau mengenai [...]
Aku Pulang… Dari Nunukan
Lunch near Nunukan Jetty. On the left is
cameraman, Suparmin
THE LAST OVERSEAS trip I made prior to my posting to Singapore was in February 2005, to an Indonesian province of Nunukan in Kalimantan.
Nunukan is a laid back border town, about 90 minutes’ ride by ferry from Tawau in the east coast of Sabah.
I was there, together [...]
Happy Merdeka Day, And That Goes To You Too Mr & Mrs Dan Lain-Lain
THERE IS ONLY ONE Malaysia and there is no such things as Malaysia proper and East Malaysia.
Yet I was made aware of the divide, if it could be called as one, when in the course of my tour of duty in Singapore, someone asked me if I came to Malaysia very often since Sabah, my [...]
“Allow Knowledge To Flourish…”
WHEN THE LONG-AWAITED biography of Malaysia’s second deputy prime minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman hit the bookshelves in December last year, it sparked no small amount of interest in Malaysia as well as in Singapore.
The book, “The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and His Time”, written by Dr Ooi Kee Beng, provides the readers [...]
“The Reluctant Politician” Is Now In Malay, “Bukan Kerana Pangkat”
WHEN BASHIR BASALAMAH agreed to work on the Malay version of “The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and His Time” — the best-selling biography of Malaysia’s former deputy prime minister — he not only end up translating the book but was impressed by the powerful personality whose life and time he had to re-tell in [...]
Tun Dr Ismail, A Pivotal Figure In Malaysia’s History
ON THE EVENING of May 13 1969, just two hours before the May 13 riots erupted in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, former Home Affairs Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman had written a letter.
It was addressed to the chairman of Guthrie Corporation, telling him not to expect him (Ismail) back in London the [...]
