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Letters to the Editor
 RESPECT CITIZENS' RIGHTS: Use the proper channels

RESPECT CITIZENS' RIGHTS: Use the proper channels

NEWLY appointed Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's firm assurance that his ministry will take action against those who do not adhere to the law on rallies is timely.

 VOTING PATTERN: Give Najib more time to rectify  imbalances

VOTING PATTERN: Give Najib more time to rectify imbalances

I HAVE voted in eight general elections. I am educated only up to a diploma level and I'm one of those who benefitted from the government's policies then and now. I am not a member of any political party, but I am friendly to all.

 EDUCATION: Have part-time teachers in national schools

EDUCATION: Have part-time teachers in national schools

I concur with the sentiments of both Hussaini Abdul Karim and C.G. Tiong (Letters, May 16) who wrote on how to improve our education system.

SERVE THE PEOPLE: Duty of both the govt and opposition

THE election fever, which gripped the nation from the day Parliament was dissolved, ended on May 5. The results brought relief to many of us.

FUTILE RALLIES: Representatives should get to work

THE polls are over, therefore, all elected representatives should buckle down and serve the rakyat instead of organising or participating in useless public rallies.

EDUCATION: BM as a tool to foster unity

ONCE again there are calls for a single-stream school system (national schools). And, as expected, voices of disapproval are heard ("Call to abolish vernacular schools against Federal Constitution", NST, May 13).

ESPRIT DE CORPS: Men in uniform have not forgiven Anwar

"IT'S hard to digest that only 10 per cent of the uniformed personnel support Pakatan," an NST report on May 18 quoted Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as saying. It's obvious that the opposition leader is clueless about the uniformed personnel's code of conduct.

 SUNGAI KELAMAH MEMORIAL: Rectify factual errors

SUNGAI KELAMAH MEMORIAL: Rectify factual errors

I RECENTLY visited the Sungai Kelamah memorial in Gemencheh, Negri Sembilan, which commemorates a battle between Japanese forces and a detachment of Australians defending at the Gemencheh bridge on Jan 14, 1942.

UNITY EQUALS 1MALAYSIA: Teach kids Rukun Negara tenets

UNITY EQUALS 1MALAYSIA: Teach kids Rukun Negara tenets

DEPUTY Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has stated that the nation's progress and development lies in the ability of teachers to unite the young by encouraging them to inculcate Rukun Negara principles.

SUPPLICATION: Did plea for divine help in polls work?

IT was reported recently that the Pas spiritual leader had supplicated to God to destroy Umno and Barisan Nasional.