By Terence Netto, Free Malaysia Today“Make them the object of ridicule. Nothing succeeds like laughter where the masses are concerned,” offered M J Akbar, a renowned Indian journalist and…

The forces of Ketuanan Melayu, aided and abetted by KDN, rapped the The Star on its forehead yesterday on the eve of its launch of the paper’s Bahasa Malaysia weekly Mingguan Star by the Sultan of…

The courts in Malaysia have ... emasculated themselves by avoiding any form of judicial intervention or activism when the interests of the all powerful executive is at stake. By Gerard Lourdesamy

The Star is a joke. Why I still read it on a daily basis is as much an unresolved mystery to me as to why rich and all powerful Najib is unable to get a better looking wife. (Ok you feminist out…

Nazri then started his formal speech and spoke for 30 minutes. It was a very academic and therefore a very boring speech. There was no real substance to it and the audience quickly grew bored. Even…

By Sim Kwang Yang The double-barrelled festive celebrations are now finally over. And so is the seasonal killing spree on Malaysian roads and highways.

(Harakah Daily) - PAS vice president Salahuddin Ayub has slammed the police for attempting to “put fear” into Pakatan Rakyat leaders in a bid to stop them from exposing the corruption and excesses…

Hartal 1953 was a country-wide demonstration, commonly known as a hartal, held in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on August 12, 1953. It was organised to protest of the policies and actions of…

An institutional overhaul is long overdue in Kuala Lumpur   "The Leopard," Giuseppe di Lampedusa's celebrated novel about the crumbling feudal order in 19th century Sicily, made famous the…

Malaysia seeks to organize an international caning conference Malaysia appears determined to make an international fool of itself. The latest news, according to Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, the Women's…

Today, there is so much brouhaha about the Oil Royalty (illegally renamed ‘Wang Ehsan’) issue. Even Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has awoken and it looks like a hornets’ nest has just been…

FREE MALAYSIA TODAY NOW HAS A SLICK NEW FORMAT (Free Malaysia Today) - Party Keadilan Rakyat’s de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today rapped Umno veteran Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim for…

(Harakah Daily) - Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) memandang serius cubaan berterusan Kerajaan Pusat (Barisan Nasional) mengelirukan rakyat mengenai hak setiap negeri di dalam Persekutuan Malaysia untuk…

To its credit, The Star’s managing editor P. Gunasegaram wrote a great article in response to the caning of three women, found guilty of having illicit sex by the syariah court. The article…

Aiyoh! Do all Chinese prostitute themselves like this? I hope not or else this country is doomed. Hmm…what did that special officer to Prime Minister Najib say in the 1Malaysia seminar in Melaka: all…

Art HarunThe General Election of 1999 saw UMNO being whitewashed in Kelantan and Trengganu, losing the 2 states to PAS. In Kelantan, UMNO had a dismal run where it only managed to secure just 1…

(Selangor Kini) - Kumpulan kerja aduan dan siasatan Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Malaysia (Suhakam) akan menemui Raja Azman Raja Petra di Penjara Sungai Buloh jam 10 pagi esok.

I have been following with interest, yet again, with the development of a new Malay-centric interest group called Perkasa. Is its creation a necessity in an age where in the emerging force of change…

Rasanya dah ramai orang kenal cybertrooper UMNGOK yang sekor nih si papagomo, kali ni CiLiK© nak tunjukkan bukti si papagomo ni memang kaki fitnah, selalu timbulkan isu yang bukan-bukan untuk…

Twitter created a stir in the local community this afternoon when two veteran politicians from both sides of the divide took off on a spontaneous discussion covering a number of topics - oil, kalimah…

From the brains behind Iran's Green Revolution to the economic Cassandra who actually did have a crystal ball, they had the big ideas that shaped our world in 2009. Read on to see the 100 minds that…

and why Sarawak is today in the grip of the robber baron timber gang lords... By Sarawak Headhunter

My first post brings you this particular piece by MACC officers themselves.By Malaysia New Kid On Blog

Creating high value jobs seems to be the second selling pitch of Najib administration after 1Malaysia. It is interesting to note that Singapore’s theme for their 2010 budget, according to their…

The nagging question still remains as to why should the NAG team waste the taxpayers’ money and go all the way to put up a circus when the Americans (who created Avatar, remember?) can easily make out…

(Harakah Daily) - Kelantan hari ini memperbetulkan kenyataan yang dibuat kerajaan Pusat di mana tunggakan royalti yang perlu dibayar kepada kerajaan negeri sebanyak RM2 bilion dan bukannya RM20…

Experts have warned that the Malaysian capital flight – which even exceeded the outflows recorded during the 1998 Asian financial crisis - was due to discordant government policies and negative…

My contention is that the Petroleum Development Act 1974 should not have even been passed in the first place because, according to the Federation Agreement, 100% of the oil and gas…

Written by Regina William, The Edge   Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng today said it has never been his ambition nor ever crossed his mind to become the prime minister of Malaysia.

Written by Regina William, The Edge  The move by the Royal Malaysian Police to compile six police reports against Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and expect him to answer all the allegations…