Yearly Archives

2017

No basis for ban on G25 book

By Ramon Navaratnam I believe most moderate Malaysians are depressed and dismayed and even shocked, that the home ministry has thought it fit to ban the G25 book entitled “Breaking the Silence:…

Najib and the politics of survival

Other politicians have fallen for less – how has Najib managed to survive? By Isabel Yeo, edited by Anne Hwarng, ASEAN today In the last four years, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak has…

Don’t judge a book by its cover

(MALAYSIA IMPACT) - These days we find many of those in the younger generation rooting for the Opposition, claiming that Anwar Ibrahim is the only one who can “save” the country. The first…

A quibble over any Basha or Merican

How special is a Bumiputera in a Malaysia with 80 plus per cent falling inside that category? Praba Ganesan, The Malay Mail Online Shahul Hameed picked me up at the intersection of Changkat…

Why I hate to walk

June HL Wong, The Star HAVE you heard? We’re the third laziest people on the planet. That was the conclusion from a massive new study of 717,527 people in 111 countries by Stanford University.…