Why We Remember Teoh Beng Hock

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…

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A Reflection On One Better Malaysia

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…

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In Memory Of Teoh Beng Hock

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…

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Restoring Institutional Strength and Separation of Powers

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…

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Race Based Policies and Its Effects In Malaysia

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…

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Forging a Nation: Are We There Yet?

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…

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Prejudice Against Our Foreign Workers

Posted on 01 September 2008 by Tricia Yeoh

Prejudice is thinly veiled in Malaysia, a country that internationally espouses values of tolerance and an all-embracing culture. On the surface, certainly we seem to greet each other with warm smiles (especially if we are conditioned to think that those Malaysia Airlines advertisements are an accurate depiction of how we…

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The Role of Christian Youth in Nation Building

Posted on 25 August 2008 by Tricia Yeoh

Inaugural Council for World Mission East Asia Region Youth Leaders’ Assembly National Identity The notion of nation-building presupposes that the nation itself is in need of building; or rebuilding, in some cases. The term nation-building in its original sense referred to newly-independent nations in Africa to reshape colonial territories that…

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Are our Governments “Governing” Well? How Can We Tell?

Posted on 28 July 2008 by Tricia Yeoh

There has been an overdose of politics in the Malaysian air recently, although most political talk has been reduced to stories akin to murder, sexual and spy stories, gruesome as they may sound. Whilst the newspapers are plastered with story after story on personality battles, Malaysians are actually eager to…

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Idealism

Posted on 21 July 2008 by Tricia Yeoh

Young people have always been the most idealistic group in any society – and rightly so. At which other time in one’s life could someone have the time and space to dream big, and desire the best things for one’s world? Indeed, many great political leaders of today in numerous…

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