Kepentingan Melayu mana yang dijaga?

Hanya 2.8% daripada keluarga Melayu berpendapatan antara RM10,000 dan RM20,000 dan mereka adalah pegawai-pegawai tinggi di GLC, peniaga dan kontraktor besar dan juga para professional di sektor…

BN warned, Pakatan scorned

By G Vinod, Free Malaysia Today KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin today warned Barisan Nasional of further loss of popular support and then denounced Pakatan Rakyat as a three-headed…

Push to allow student politics

(AFP) - MALAYSIA'S ruling party faced an appeal at its annual congress on Wednesday to allow students to take part in politics, and reverse a recent cabinet decision maintaining the ban.

MTUC opposes new pension fund

By The Malaysian Insider “MTUC’s vehement objections against this move were endorsed by the EPF Board. The latest announcement by the finance ministry confirms that the insurance lobbyists have…

Mukhriz pins FDI slide on Pakatan

By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20 — International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir blamed the opposition today for the loss of foreign investor…

Wanted: Deeds, not words

By The Malaysian Insider The constant dribble from politicians speaking about racial unity in the last year show the reality is different. And that Umno and Muhyiddin have not got a pass mark in…

Waiting for a social budget

By Maclean Patrick, Free Malaysia Today What is it about budgets that seem so not right? Probably because we all come up with one, yet keeping to it seems almost close to impossible. A budget also…

Crime intelligence unit in the works

By V. Vasudevan and Sean Augustin, NSTMALAYSIA is developing a Central Intelligence Unit (CIU) to tackle criminal cases, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Abu Seman Yusop told the Dewan Rakyat yesterday.…

DPM: Umno politics not racist

By The Star KUALA LUMPUR: Umno will not be apologetic when fighting for the rights and interests of the Malays but at the same time its leaders are fully aware that they have to share political…

Civil but servants to no masters

By Free Malaysia Today Governments come and go but civil servants stay. Prime Ministers come and go but government servants stay. The army of workers in the service of governments is the steady hand…

Where is Sulaiman?

Sarawak ReportKuching is once again awash with rumours about the health of the ‘heir apparent’, the Chief Minister’s son Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib.  Because government controlled newspapers dare…

Felda suits spark Umno-PAS row in Parliament

By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 – Lawmakers faced off in Parliament today when Umno deputy minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan refused to admit that Felda had lost two lawsuits in…

Backlash over mega-tower

(AFP) - THE Malaysian government's proposal to build a 100-storey mega tower in the capital has triggered a backlash from the opposition and on a fast-expanding Facebook petition.

Najib and his Budget

Everyone was interested at listening to the Finance Minister delivering his budget speech. It was a Friday. So he was dressed in a resplendent baju Melayu. The kain samping he wore costs probably RM…

Palace to cost US$258m

(AFP) - A MASSIVE new palace being built for Malaysia's king is expected to be completed next June, at a total cost of US$258 million (RM800 million), parliament has been told.

The 2011 Budget

By Syed Akbar Ali Hot news versus one week later analysis. Well when sometime has passed we get more hindsight and more 'analysis paralysis'. I am just rounding it up and putting my two cents…

MIER sees 2010 GDP growth at 6.5pc

By  ReutersKUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — A top think-tank said today it expected the economy to expand by 6.5 per cent this year, below the government’s forecast of 7 per cent, as it sees slower exports…