The exclusive club syndrome

Religion since time immemorial has been used by those at the top of the religious hierarchy to imprison the minds of the populace. And those who question them suffer persecution. NO HOLDS

Samy Vellu resigns as MIC president

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani, The Malaysian InsiderKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 — Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu officially stepped down today as MIC’s president after leading the party for almost 31 years.

Ketuanan Melayu Types are Worse than OKUs

By batsman Recently our great PM himself officiated an event on OKUs where some overdue political correctness was practiced. The definition for OKU was changed from Orang Kurang Upaya to Orang…

ISA for Datuk Seri Wan Azizah?

By Art Harun The suggestion made by UMNO legal advisor, Datuk Hafarizam Harun (no relation to me), that the ISA be used against, particularly, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah, is symptomatic of UMNO's psycho…

Malaysia in the Era of Globalization #43

Malaysia is vulnerable on a number of fronts, with many simmering problems yet to be addressed or even acknowledged. Malaysian leaders must critically reexamine their policies and revisit their…

NEM? WIIFM?

By batsman I am also not an economist by training, but I know that without exception, people analyze economic policies by starting and ending with “What’s in it for me?”

Bar Ragunath from the Bar!

Din MericanOn  November 24, Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) exposed the Haj pilgrimage scandal involving Attorney-General (AG) Gani Patail and the former Malaysia Airlines Chairman Tan Sri Tajudin…

Has the 2008 tsunami run its course?

By Vijay Kumar MurugavellSome opine that political support is like a pendulum, if that is so the political tsunami on March 08, 2008 could have really begun in 2004 where the Abdullah Ahmad Badawi…

When silence is not golden

By Jackson NgTAN Sri Robert Phang is on a war path against anti-graft, having his statements published in newspapers and internet news portals the past two weeks.The social and anti-graft activist…

Blinkered Bloopers

Why must the rakyat pay the price for their incompetence, inefficiency and idiocy via higher prices of petrol/sugar and even higher taxes?