Posted on 19 July 2010 by Tricia Yeoh
I was invited last Friday to speak at an event jointly organised by Empower and SIRD (Strategic Information and Research Development Centre) entitled “I am what I believe”. A rather intriguing topic to begin with, the objective of the forum was to bring a diverse range of youth together to…
Posted on 12 July 2010 by Tricia Yeoh
It’s taken a while, but the Selangor Freedom of Information Enactment will finally be tabled for its first reading at the upcoming State Legislative Assembly sitting! It will be interesting to see how the Federal Government reacts to this, although they should not be too concerned since only state-related documents…
Posted on 05 June 2010 by Tricia Yeoh
Much has been said about the little that emerged from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December 2009. Well, the Copenhagen Accord was finally signed by major economies including the US and China, committing to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius. However, there…
Posted on 22 May 2010 by Tricia Yeoh
Local government elections were abolished by the Malaysian federal government in 1976 despite suggestions to the contrary by the body set up to study them. Thirty-five years later, the State governments of Penang and Selangor are asking for federal support in reintroducing them. If local councillors were elected instead of…
Posted on 09 September 2009 by Tricia Yeoh
It has been a strange year of Death for many Malaysians, culminating personally in that of Teoh Beng Hock, political aide to a Selangor Exco Member – a colleague and acquaintance of mine.
Several weeks had passed since his death, but still it is shrouded in mystery. As the inquest…
Posted on 31 August 2009 by Tricia Yeoh
It has been a strange year of Death for many Malaysians, culminating personally in that of Teoh Beng Hock, political aide to a Selangor Exco Member – a colleague and acquaintance of mine.
Several weeks had passed since his death, but still it is shrouded in mystery. As the inquest…
Posted on 21 July 2009 by Tricia Yeoh
Much has already been said about the death of the late Mr. Teoh Beng Hock, political aide to Selangor State Government Exco member YB Ean Yong, and I understand the great anger and sadness being expressed by the public to this effect. I do not know whether what I will…
Posted on 11 May 2009 by Tricia Yeoh
Salam sejahtera and good morning. I have been asked to share my thoughts with you on the role of the judiciary, executive, legislature and the constitutional monarchy in the governing of Malaysia. My co-panelists, both trained in the law, would no doubt present a complete and thorough legal framework, so…
Posted on 22 September 2008 by Tricia Yeoh
“Those were the days”, many in their late fifties and sixties recall of their younger years when races intermingled freely and ethnic backgrounds were not divisive in nature. They reminisce of a time when race was not an element one thought of when meeting another. Today, studies have shown increasing…
Posted on 08 September 2008 by Tricia Yeoh
Numerous attempts have been made to articulate what “Malaysia” as a nation means. We’ve explored it in a dozen ways, and 51 years after Independence, we are still having teething problems. It doesn’t take a genius to observe that Malaysia is going through a turbulent period. We seem to be…