Partyless Tajem helps out PKR

Joseph Tawie, Malaysian Mirror Veteran Iban leader Daniel Tajem is not even a PKR member but he has accepted an appointment to sit in the PKR national integration council to help improve East-West…

Kerk: Teoh’s family wants the truth

Translated by DOMINIC LOH/Sin Chew Daily Kerk Kim Hock, the coordinator for the family of Teoh Beng Hock, said the family refused to let Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand carry out a second…

Is this right?

Art HarunAs all of us would have experienced nowadays, in this beloved and blessed nation of ours, there are 3 types of news.

The truth emerges

A former minister shares eyebrow-rising inside stories from his long political career. “In the old days, the corruption was smaller. If an Umno branch leader did not get a taxi permit, he would…

No cheers for Farce of the Year

Scriptwriters would also be wondering if there was an unseen hand behind this sudden volte-face on the part of Ong and Chua since both have said that the prime minister gave them his blessing…

‘Reading’ the book of signs

Such are regimes of truth we have created out of our political-economic conditions. We must learn to read the meaning of how our learning institutions have produced us, as well as the power structures…

“THE MALAY SIEGE MENTALITY”

By Dr Collin Abraham ABDICATION, SURVIVAL, AND THE DROP-OUT SYNDROME. With the greatest of respect and in all humility, it has taken almost six decades of ‘radical’ academia, hands- on…

OPERATION LALANG

By P Ramakrishnan, Aliran 22 years ago, the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, committed a heinous crime by ordering the detention of 106 concerned Malaysians for his…

Good Governance

By batsman  Often when I read about good governance, it is usually about having a good set of laws and leaders who rule fairly and progressively. The important words here are “fair and progress”,…

Budget 2010: Goodbye credit cards

The Finance Ministry has claimed that the government is concerned about credit card debt, and we should be. But to quote a blogger, Lee Wee Tak: "If you want to control credit card debts, more…