Dr M: Congrats for ‘destroying’ Umno

By RK Anand, FMTPETALING JAYA: Dr Mahathir Mohamad has responded to the speculation that he is once again working backstage to bring the curtain down on another political career – that of his…

Raiders playing with fire

The action of JAIS is not only despicable but also inimical to the interests of society.But we are not living in the dark age of religious intolerance where Christians and Muslims fell by the sword…

Money matters

ART HARUNThe outlook is grim I must say.Underscoring the seriousness of the US debt-payment horror is the fact that as of July this year, Apple Inc’s nett operating cash balance of USD 76.4b far…

Court blocks expulsions to Malaysia

 By Greg Ansley, NZ Herald Australia's High Court has blocked the Government's controversial refugee swap deal with Malaysia for two weeks pending a full-bench hearing of an appeal by asylum seekers…

PAS goes on soul-searching trip

By Karim Raslan, The Star PAS in the midst of an ambitious push into “Middle Malaysia”. The victory in June, of the party’s progressives – dubbed the Erdogans after the visionary Turkish Premier,…

Is Malaysia increasingly regimented?

By J. Di’ Lovrenciear The world has moved light years ahead since the end of World War II. The nations that were eager and receptive to the notion of liberating its civil society have all migrated to…

That Effing Show #60: The Reds Are Coming!

Do not, for even a minute, think that you are safe.  Do not, under any circumstance, presume that everything is as it seems. Why? Because they are all around us.  They look like us.  They talk like…

Giving New Meaning to Reverse Takeover

By Masterwordsmith In mid-November last year, Pauline Hanson, the Australian politician noted for her anti-immigration outbursts, has said she is abandoning plans to move to Britain because “it’s…

Upsetting the ecological balance

The Indians and Chinese we have in Malaysia today are descendants of the immigrants of the 1850 to 1920 era. In short, today’s Indians and Chinese are Malaysian-born, which means they are Malaysians…