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Terence Netto | DAP must talk softly but carry a big stick After employing rhetorical pressure to persuade its Pakatan Rakyat coalition partner, PAS, to desist from passing the hudud bill in Kelantan, DAP is left with only one choice now that the Islamic party has remained impervious to its pleading …

Terence Netto | “To every thing there is a season and a time for every purpose under Heaven” are the wise words of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/282935 How many of us must wish we possess the wisdom of knowing the propitious time for the purposes for which we mu …

Terence Netto | Our RCI penchant and constipation A royal commission of inquiry (RCI) occurs but rarely. It is formed when public concern and pressure on an issue arrive at a pitch of intensity that an RCI has to be empowered as placation: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/282576 This makes the findi …

Terence Netto | DAP’s Lims up the ante Barely a day after Lim senior dangled the top leadership of Pakatan Rakyat a challenge to do some much-needed soul-searching, then Lim junior ups the ante by delivering a George W Bush-like admonition to PAS that they state clearly whether they are “with us or …