Blog House Malaysia is supposedly the online media watchdog for the Media Consultative Council, claiming to defend bloggers on their site. Bloggers pay a membership fee for their services. Is Tony…

 (Harakah Daily) - Pakatan Rakyat today rejected the Election Commission's plan to introduce biometric system in the coming general election, saying the system was not only too costly, but has no…

 By Azril Annuar, The Sun PUTRAJAYA (July 27, 2011): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak announced today the seventh National Key Result Area (NKRA) – to tackle the rising costs of living.…

By MasterwordsmithAs I drove to Caring Society Complex, a light drizzle began - almost as if the heavens were silently weeping for the six civilians, Choo Chon Kai, Sarat Babu, Sarasvathy Muthu,…

By Friends of SUARAM (FOS) Working Committee, Johore Despite all forms of deception, destruction and intimidation and eventually an all-out suppression by the ruling clique of the UMNO-dominated…

 By Teoh El Sen, FMT PETALING JAYA: The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into Teoh Beng Hock’s death, which released its findings in a report last Thursday, has created a “big legal mess” by…

KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — Barisan Nasional (BN) lawmakers have told coalition leaders that the government must ensure more funds trickle down to their constituencies instead of concentrating on…

A notable feature of the Malaysian electoral system is that the electoral system favours the electorate in rural areas. And the rural areas are predominantly inhabited by the Malays. This…

CPI What is most telling about the Royal Commission report on Teoh Beng Hock is its total neglect of the two major structural factors accounting for the tragedy – the Umno and MACC agenda…

(The Malaysian Insider) - The Urban Development Authority efforts to trim its debts and raise money for its affirmative action programmes is being hampered by politics with the Finance Ministry…

 (Bernama) KUANTAN: Muslim women will be barred from working as guest relation officers (GROs) or waitresses in entertainment outlets in the state capital from next year.

By Teoh El Sen, FMT PETALING JAYA: DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang yesterday urged police to re-open investigations into the death of former political aide Teoh Beng Hock based on four new “leads” that…

But we failed to take into consideration one very important point. And this one very important point is Dr Mahathir is a more seasoned politician than we gave him credit for. And the script for the…

ANIL NETTOMuch has been made in the media about a RM14.5bn golden yacht being made in Europe for an “anonymous Malaysian businessman”. The first reports originated in the British tabloid press –…

ZAID IBRAHIMThe launch of Angkatan Amanah Merdeka (Amanah) last Friday by Tengku Razaleigh was not well reported by the mainstream media. That’s not at all surprising, but it’s still regrettable.…

The Malaysian civil society seems to pick and choose the issues which it wishes to champion, while its leaders prefer to be followers of politicians.Some critics estimated that the EO detention…

(Harakah Daily) - "We are powerless" and "we don't make decisions" summarise the explanation by Election Commission deputy chairman Wan Ahmad Wan Omar yesterday's packed public dialogue organised…

     By Suaram Pg    There will be a candlelight vigil at 8.00PM tonight followed by the Bersih 2.O Crackdown : EO - Another ISA? forum at Caring Society Complex, Penang. Please bring your own candles…

 By Joseph Tawie, FMT KUCHING: Is the infamous ‘Project M’ which legitimised illegal immigrants by the thousands in the 1990s in Sabah making its way to Sarawak? Is Umno-Barisan Nasional using the…

By Melissa Chi, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — The Barisan Nasional administration must penalise the outlawed Bersih 2.0 movement and the people behind it or risk  losing electoral…

 By Soothsayer, Aliran Good is bad and bad is good. Those in power attempt to justify their acts of deceit, cruelty and oppression by hard-sell tactics using all the media tools at their disposal.

By Tan Seng Hai This is in response to Wong Chun Wai's “On the beat” column (“Of Angry Birds and angry Malaysians”: Sunday Star  24 July 2011) where he asked Malaysians to stop being angry on the…

By ViewAct I will have to make this very short. As I don’t think I have much time left. Err … I mean, we don’t have much time left. The ruling party is in desperation now, as time is cut short for…

I support Pakatan Rakyat. I think this is simple enough to understand ……I repeat “I support Pakatan Rakyat”. Now again if anyone is going to interpret this as me covertly supporting UMNO/BN because I…

Come and share your views on what we, the citizenry, can do and should do, and what you as an individual want and will do to take us beyond the euphoria of Bersih 2.0, 9th July, 2011. 

With another layer of control being mooted through the government-proposed Media Consultative Council, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if Malaysian press reports and television news lose even…

By Shannon Teoh, The Malaysia Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — Singapore’s influential founding father Lee Kuan Yew has spoken out against a two-party system, warning that it could cause weak…

 By Karim Raslan, The Star THERE are times when we need to be reminded that Malaysia is in South-East Asia. Even though Bukit Bintang is teeming with Persians and Arabs, we are not part of the Middle…

 By Stanley Koh, FMT Is Mahathirism back with a vengeance?

 By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal, The Malaysian Insider SHAH ALAM, July 26 — Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan today proposed that the Election Commission (EC) set up a special committee to discuss issues…