Yearly Archives

2024

BEC: Part 5 – Gone the reformers

Dennis Ignatius One clear message that emanated from the recently concluded Bumiputera Economic Congress is that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has now turned his back on reformasi. The reformer,…

Singapore-Malaysia’s water row

Escalating demand for water and population growth, coupled with floods, droughts and pollution, has led to a decline in water catchment areas, especially in Johor. The raw water capacity of the…

A new star on the horizon

GANESHWARAN KANA, THE STAR DATUK Farhash Wafa Salvador, a loyalist of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, is the latest rising star of corporate Malaysia. However, scrutiny of the…

Where is the red line?

At what point will you be satisfied? Zaid Ibrahim, FMT Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim needs to tell Umno there is a red line that they must not cross. Listen, just because one uses God as the…

A bad week for Malaysia

Dennis Ignatius This week the whole country was plunged into tumult when a few pairs of socks were discovered in the KK supermarket chain with the world ‘Allah’ on it. It should never have…

Multiracial or ‘multi-racist’?

It is abundantly clear that the nation is divided by race and religion. With our entire education and administrative system being corrupted by religious and ethnic dogma, how can we now expect our…

Bumiputera Economic Congress 2024

A hundred years from now, they’ll still be talking about the need to catch up with the non-Malays, never mind that by then the non-Malays will be only a tiny minority given their low birth rates…

Bumiputera Economic Congress 2024

Banks, transport companies, rice mills etc. were all taken over in the name of affirmative action. Now they have set their eyes on non-Bumiputera land holdings. It’s never-ending; the more they…

How the War in Gaza has doomed KK Mart

When one falls in status, one of the things that happens is that one will become very sensitive towards even the smallest slight. The smallest scorn can trigger such great grievance in oneself,…