No one would dare dispute the central role of reading and thinking in nurturing a scientific culture which is conducive to the development of a nation. Though their roles are indisputable, people at large still need to be reminded of their importance because of the inherent tendency in man to forget and neglect. On Sept…
About two weeks ago, the Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry and the National Archives jointly organized the “Prime Struggles Towards Independence Exhibition” at the Tun Razak Memorial in Kuala Lumpur. When opening the exhibition on August 17, 2006, Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak, ticked off the young post-independence generation who were…
On the 12th of July, 2006, almost all the local newspapers ran the story of the proposed amendments to the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) Act 1959 to give the agency more bite in punishing those who trivialise Article 152 of the Federal Constitution which makes it clear that Malay is the country’s national language.…
One can survive for days without clothing, shelter, weapons or the like but few can survive without food, much less without water. What is clear is that no organism can survive without air. It is also common knowledge that the supply of our food comes almost entirely from agriculture, such activity many scholars of cultural…
Science as it is understood, explicated and propagated by modern man has been part and parcel of life for quite some time. This, perhaps, poses no problem to a purely modern man. But are all citizens of this so-called modern age ‘modern’ in every respect without a trace from the past? How’s about a Muslim…
SIKAP menderhaka negara sendiri adalah sifat yang bertentangan dengan ajaran agama Nabi Allah Ibrahim a.s. seperti yang diterangkan oleh al-Quran dalam surah al-Baqarah, ayat 126 berdoa kepada Allah SWT yang bermaksud; Dan ingatlah ketika Ibrahim berkata ”Tuhanku, jadikanlah negaraku ini sebuah negara yang aman, dan kurniakanlah rezeki kepada penghuninya dengan buah-buahan iaitu bagi mereka yang…
