On promoting a Civil Society via Research and Information and Discussions, especially on the nation's Policies and Programmes aimed at progressing Malaysia towards a trult Developed Nation status. The website now under steady construction is still undergoing birth pangs. Give the A-teAm at the Centre for Policy Initiatives about two months from now to help the infant along to be ready to cry out loud like a new born babe in July, okay!
Meanwhile, surf to http://www.cpiasia.org/ NOW! Okay, take away that exclamation mark. Please surf dare at leisure:). As background, CPI in association with a group of Bloggers led by YL Chong-Desiderata, recently organised the BUM2008 quite succesfully. According to its Director, Dr Lim Teck Ghee, The Centre for Policy Initiatives is a non-profit, independent policy reform organization seeking to improve the quality of public awareness and discourse on key national issues. The primarily internet-based think-tank – the CPI’s website, now under construction, expects to go public shortly - has as its leading members Dr. Azly Rahman, Jeff Ooi, Dr. Lim Teck Ghee and Purushothaman Nair.
Just sharing a bit/byte on the onging CPI website development, I'm an involved party trying to grow this website and we are experimenting with FEATURED THEME every week or fortnight. The current one focuses on East Malaysia (Sabah/Sarawak), whose Members of Parliament have been put under the spotlight for the past few weeks since the speculation started that some 30-plus MPs from the Barisan Nasional component parties in Sabah and Sarwak were "prepared" to jump ship over into the Pakatan Rakyat.
Malaysians live in interesting times post-March 8, 2008, witnessing a hugely-changed landscape on the political front, which carries gigantic implications on how the nation marches forward -- or pushed backward -- depending on the multitude of forces at work.
Dear EsteemedReaders of mine are requested to help contribute towards the cpiasia.org contents by emailing me at -- chongyl2000@yahoo.com -- suitable materials you think relevant to the current Featured Theme -- East Malaysia.
Stay tuned -- here, there and everywhere in cyberspace for here's "A new home on a borderless range, where often is heard many colliding voices, wit and wisdom contesting against barb and disdain and what have you... Just keep an Open Mind, Engage, not necessarily embrace, for we have time to "beg to differ", , yet to be agreeable in our disagreement.
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