Many shortcomings in the RCI proceeding

 It is a wonder why these parties, why after making such loud noises about the issue of illegal immigrants all these while they have not pursued or even clamoured for participation in the RCI…

Forced into extinction

 (The Economist) - LIKE much that moves in Twitter-mad Saudi Arabia these days, it started with a single message. A lady in Dammam, the hub of the oil industry on the kingdom’s Gulf coast, tweeted a…

Listen…

SV Often we hearOur people lamentWhat has happenedTo this countryIt was never like thisWhen we were young

‘They keep insulting Indians’

Ponggal rice is 'bountiful" and different from raw rice. PM Najib gave away handouts of raw rice as if "we are beggars" and Indian political parties to blame. Toffee Rozario, FMT Prime Minister…

God and religion, two separate matters

The raging ‘Allah” issue has left this writer wondering if Jakim and National Fatwah Council clerics who can both “see and read” are “blind”.  Vidal Yudin Weil, FMT When I was young, my teacher …

The foreign invasion

Is the government taking in large number of foreign workers to fulfill a specific purpose? Otherwise why the increasing influx? Selena Tay, FMT Now it has been revealed that under the tenure of…

Being out of sync with reality

The country’s peace and stability is at stake but BN remains engrossed with its pet project BR1M and ways and means to stay in power. Jeswan Kaur, FMT Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin says…

Allah stand: PAS grassroots unhappy

Anwar Ibrahim's stand on the matter, says a PAS man, shows how much regard the former has for the Islamic party's religious credentials. Hawkeye, FMT BUKIT MERTAJAM: PAS grassroots are getting…

Our Malaysia of the 70s

There was a certain kind of magic, innocence, and sincerity to foster a Malaysian identity, back then. It didn’t matter what race you were one could love to one’s heart’s content folks like these: P…

Who will win GE13?

P Gunasegaram, Malaysiakini Numbers, they say, never lie although statistics can be made to. Where they are most useful, however, is when they can be analysed to give a scale of the magnitude of…

Race in politics, politics in race

KTemoc Konsiders I have just read P Gunasegaram's article Who will win GE13? in Malaysiakini. He has very methodically, and I believe quite logically, laid down his points which argue that it will…