MERDEKA!


  • Opinion
  • Sunday, 26 Aug 2007

With more openness, transparency and accountability, we can still be not only a good but even a great country to live in.

MERDEKA! What a great emotive word it was that our Father of Independence, Tunku Abdul Rahman, shouted seven times to the expectant crowd in Merdeka Stadium that Aug 31st drizzly morning 50 years ago this Friday.

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