Sept 16 And The Morality Of Party-hopping

Anwar Ibrahim has been bragging that come Sept 16, thirty lawmakers from the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition will cross over to the new opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition, giving just enough…

The 16 Sept Prophecy

If this negative trend continues, and BN fails to immediately turn the tide and get back the people's support, it may lose its regime after 16 September (if the 16 September prophecy is not…

Spitting into the wind

No, I am not a deviant or a blasphemous Muslim of the worst kind. It is those in government who are. And I will uphold the true Islam and oppose these deviants till my last breath and the last drop of…

Mainstream Media lost Public Trust

The result of the recent Permatang Pauh by-election was a surprise only to those who depended on the mainstream media and the government’s massive propaganda machinery for their source of news…

Will Foreign Investors Come Back?

According to Bank Negara's latest statistics, some US$1.1bn (about RM3.8bn) of foreign funds exited from the country during the period Aug 15-29. By LIANG FENGYING, Business Desk/Translated by…

Reassessing recessions

By Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj, The Nut Graph THE Malaysian public has received two major economic shocks this year: the marked increase in the price of rice, and the hike (and subsequent reduction) in…

No place like home

By Ng Boon Hooi, The Nut Graph SINGLE mum Salimah Habibullah thought her housing problems were over when she was offered a low-cost unit in 2005, after a 10-year wait. .... “I’ve never…

How burial plots become condo units

by R. Nadeswaran and Terence Fernandez, THE SUN The saga of the cemetery land started way back in 1986 when Bandar Utama was being developed. The rubber and oil palm trees of Ephingham Estate…

Stealing from the dead

by R. Nadeswaran and Terence Fernandez, THE SUNPETALING JAYA (Sept 9, 2008): First they pinched land from the poor. Then they pilfered playgrounds from children. Now, they are even stealing from the…

A question of interference

CASES of police officers filing reports against magistrates over how they carry out their duties were unheard of in the past. Nowadays the seem to have become a trend.

Menanti detik 16 September

Zulkifli Sulong is a veteran journalist who writes an exclusive weekly column with The Malaysian Insider apart from editing the Bahasa Malaysia weekly Siasah.

8 days and counting

THE next eight days will be telling for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim: his sodomy trial opens on Wednesday and the clock is winding down on his boast of seizing control of government by Sept 16.