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	<title>Steven Sim &#187; Malaysia</title>
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		<title>Dr. Tan Kee Kwong: How Did We End Up In This Mess?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/06/dr-tan-kee-kwong-how-did-we-end-up-in-this-mess/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/06/dr-tan-kee-kwong-how-did-we-end-up-in-this-mess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Micah Mandate
HOW DID WE END UP IN THIS MESS?- a personal view of the country’s financial state

by Dr. Tan Kee Kwong (former 3-term MP Segambut)
As a private citizen now, I am just going through the main headlines in the papers this morning (June 11). I see all sorts of figures and fantastic projections. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another One&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/06/another-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[katak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keshvinder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the Perak saga continues, with another legislator from Pakatan Rakyat (DAP), Keshvinder Singh (Malim Nawar) quited the party to become &#8220;BN friendly Independent&#8221;. He claimed that he was attracted by PM Najib&#8217;s style of administration and believed that only BN can offer development to his constituency.  It is interesting for someone to profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ngobrol-ngobrol</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/04/ngobrol-ngobrol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/04/ngobrol-ngobrol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Govt & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liew Chin Tong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ngobrol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekends, while I was in KL, I had the opportunity to organized a small ngobrol-ngobrol (chit chatting) session with Liew Chin Tong (www.liewchintong.com) in Petaling Jaya with a group of young professionals.
Discussions included comments and expectations of young people in view of Malaysia&#8217;s current political climate. Liew answered a couple of questions on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zaid Ibrahim For Hulu Selangor</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/04/zaid-ibrahim-for-hulu-selangor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/04/zaid-ibrahim-for-hulu-selangor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Govt & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hulu Selangor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zaid Ibrahim]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spent the weekends in Hulu Sgor-KL before flying to Singapore today for a meeting.  The turnout on nomination day for Hulu Sgor by-election was electric on the side of Pakatan Rakyat. There were probably at least 5-to-1 if not 10-to-1. The BN crowd could barely compare in terms of number and spirit. But of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SERI Book Launch &amp; Table Talk</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/03/seri-book-launch-table-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2010/03/seri-book-launch-table-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liew Chin Tong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SERI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunku Aziz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevensim.org/?p=776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Come join the conversation to shape Penang and Malaysia&#8217;s future!
The Penang Socio-Economic &#38; Environmental Research Institute (SERI) will be launching its latest publication &#8220;Pilot Study for a New Penang&#8221;. Senator YM Tunku Aziz will grace the launch to be held as follow:
Date: 20 March 2010
Time: 10.30am &#8211; 12.30pm
Venue: SERI (map)
After the launch, Tunku will give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bogeyman Did Not Turn Up That Night</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/12/the-bogeyman-did-not-turn-up-that-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/12/the-bogeyman-did-not-turn-up-that-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Govt & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevensim.org/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published here (with slight editing): http://malaysiakini.com/letters/120566
There are many things we can say about the Pakatan Rakyat Common Policy Platform, but I would like to focus on one thing, there is a new confidence to embrace one another as Malaysians.
This was symbolized by the breaking away from the Government-imposed taboo of speaking about race and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Malaysian 2010 Budget: A Theological Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/11/the-malaysian-2010-budget-a-theological-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/11/the-malaysian-2010-budget-a-theological-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Govt & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevensim.org/?p=713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After researching and writing on the 2010 Budget from the political perspective, I told Joshua that we should provide a theological commentary on it as well. Joshua and I had attempted collaboration a couple of times before to write on different issues but we did not manage to complete them, largely due to the geographical distance and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UMNO-BN’S Victory Must be Put Into Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/10/umno-bn%e2%80%99s-victory-must-be-put-into-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/10/umno-bn%e2%80%99s-victory-must-be-put-into-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Govt & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bagan pinang]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published here: http://dapsy.dappg.org/?p=291
After 7 consecutive wins, Pakatan Rakyat was suddenly confronted with a lost in the recent Bagan Pinang by-election. It was not totally unexpected, after all, PAS-PR candidate lost the seat to UMNO in the last “political tsunami”-12th General Election even though the Opposition coalition managed to win the Teluk Kemang Parliamentary seat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salam Eid ul-Fitr</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/09/salam-eid-ul-fitr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/09/salam-eid-ul-fitr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aidilfitri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hari Raya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Note: The calligraphic characters say: &#8220;In the Name of God, most Gracious, most Merciful&#8221;
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		<title>The Story Teller Who Inspired Me</title>
		<link>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/08/the-story-teller-who-inspired-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevensim.org/2009/08/the-story-teller-who-inspired-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Samad Said]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erti Kemerdekaan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevensim.org/?p=684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My first words on blogs were penned in honour of two great men of literature. But, no, I did not write about them, nor about their work. Rather, I wrote with the acknowledgement of their inspiration to me. I wrote borrowing their names, forming my own nom de plume &#8211; Jack Said.
I will leave Jack [...]]]></description>
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