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Kuala Lumpur has proven over the years to be an exciting entertainment hub in the choices of international acts and events brought in. We’ve had comedian Russell Peters, Australian-based event Future Music Festival - second year in a row in KL this 2013, Jennifer Lopez and even a Star Trek Exhibition - something that would have most likely ended up in Singapore. Event organisers and MyCEB or Malaysia Convention and Exhibition Bureau, a unit under the Ministry of Tourism, seem to be working towards the goal of making Kuala Lumpur the destination for international events. Is KL reaching its potential in becoming one of South East Asia’s top entertainment hub?  We find out today if it is and what it must do to stay relevant.

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The Sun Daily reported yesterday that a 15-minute video showing the ongoing crisis in Lahad Datu, Sabah will be shown to national service trainees to instill patriotism in them. We're asking the question: is this a healthy way to instill patriotism?

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The New Education Blueprint 2013 - 2025 will have two dedicated modules; one for parents and one for school. This initiative  is in efforts to increase parents’ participation in school-based activities for their children, as revealed by the Education Minister Tan Sri Muhiyiddin Yassin just this Monday. 

The initiative is said to involve the interest and future of more than 5.4 million students, and this figure is estimated to double in 12 years from 2013 to 2025. 
With this initiative in place, we want to ask: What role should parents play in schools? 

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With GE13 looming upon us, we’ve seen a number of Malaysians getting vocal about what concerns them. NGOs are formed, and popping like mushrooms, to champion their individual causes.

But what about the average Malaysian? Don’t we have everyday concerns too that we’d like addressed? For example, will potholes and uneven roads ever get fixed? Can we expect public parks to come with basic amenities like toilets? Will public phones ever work? Have we, quite sadly, learned over the years to live with these inadequacies? W

Today, we want to ask you you what improvements you hope to see in your community.

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Last week, at a parenting seminar (held to curb LGBT tendencies) Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Puad Zarkashi called on parents to recognize the ‘early signs’ of LGBTs to be able to prevent their children from practising the LGBT lifestyle. He had said that LGBT is an illness that can be treated and that "intervention by teachers and parents, followed by counselling, can help them to return to the right path".

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Though public caning was banned in schools by the government in 2004, caning can still be carried out by the headmaster and discipline teacher under the Education Regulations (School Discipline) 1959. Today, a number of parents have requested that this method of disciplining be completely banned. But there are still some of those who believe otherwise.

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In the aftermath of the “Listen, Listen, Listen” video, Sharifah Zohra Jabeen issued a press statement forgiving KS Bavani and the “irresponsible parties that intentionally modified the situation creating a catastrophe”. She also apologized to the Malaysian public and to UUM in the statement. 

What do you make of that? 

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Of late, more and more people are turning to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to post their grievances and garner attention towards their cause. 
Over the New Year holidays, Facebook has been abuzz about the story of a 14 years old boy who molested a grown woman.

The story was up on the Star online at 9:18pm on 1st Jan 2013, but has since been taken down for reasons unknown. The incident happened in Malacca to a 28 year old woman, who had stopped at a petrol station to use the toilet. She claims to have been molested by a 13 year old boy inside the female toilet. 

The boy allegedly stormed in as she was about to leave. He covered her mouth, started to kiss her cheeks and touched her chest. She struggled and shouted. People heard the commotion and came to her aid.

The boy was then apprehended and according to State CID chief Asst Comm Raja Sharom Raja Abdullah, the boy will be remanded for 4 days pending further investigation.

Following the incident, the woman’s boyfriend posted a picture of the boy being apprehended on Facebook, which went viral and received thousands of comments from users.

The comments from users that has led us to this discussion. Therefor we ask you; are social media users responsible when it comes to highlighting their grievances online?

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We open the lines to hear your thoughts on the "Do the Dappan" online Deepavali ad by Petronas.

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