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18?

By DANNY LIM

This Video Seeks to explain the 18? Sign we see so often around KL:

Courtesy of … courtesy

By RACHEL CHAN

‘Courtesy’

An ambiguous word, meaning something and nothing at the same time. When yours truly was commissioned to give a general opinion on the ‘rudeness’ of Malaysian society as portrayed in the now infamous Reader’s Digest survey of the degree of politeness in 35 world cities, I was faced with an interesting question.

Simply put, one could have declined with a nonchalant turn of the head and aversion of the eyes when put on the spot with such a spontaneous question. But then calls for courtesy (as vague as it may be) came to mind, and one simply couldn’t help but give it a try.

A call to Malaysian youth

By TEE SUI SENG

Beware the Internet…

By RAYMOND WOO

The undisputed truth is that information technology is making the world smaller and distances closer. But does it make different nations, cultures and religions closer? Or rather, is this kind of globalization actually driving apart the different peoples of the world, and contributing to disharmony, conflict and even violence?

Take a look at the recent global protests by Muslims against the allegedly blasphemous cartoons against Prophet Muhammad. What started as a series of anti-Muslim cartoons in a small far-right Danish newspaper soon exploded onto the face of “civilized Europe� in the midst of Muslim hatred. But strangely, the troubles didn’t start until a few months after the incident, whereby a group of Danish imams launched a campaign on the Internet to discredit the cartoons. Their message, which then spread like wildfire throughout the global ummah and which contained truths, half-truths and sometimes downright lies