The rape of Bario

By Stephanie Sta Maria, The Malaysian Insider KUCHING: In June last year, Wong Mun Hoe, 29, boarded a small aircraft taking off from Miri to Bario. As the plane climbed higher, he looked down at the…

Race politics rears its head in Sarawak

By Sheridan Mahavera, The Malaysian Insider The Sarawak election campaign has brought to the surface racial undercurrents in the state that have been festering due to a growing urban-rural divide.

RPK revising history, says PKR man

(The Malaysian Insider) — PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli denied today a claim by Raja Petra Kamarudin that a 2007 meeting in Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s house was meant to block Datuk Seri Najib…

Sarawakians fighting to be heard

Sarawakians are fighting for the same self-esteem that Umno fought for in 1946 and it's wrong for Umno not to recognise this.By Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz, Free Malaysia Today

Battle worn or battle hardened?

By J. D. Lovrenciear BN has had the lead advantage of having formed the government for as long as we all can remember. And in the process it also had a leader who masterminded the carving out of a…

The baffling prices of houses

By Himanshu Bhatt, The Sun IT IS a fundamental fact of economics in any market sector that when the price of a commodity goes up it is because, all things being equal, the supply of the item is too…

Deepak vs. RPK: Round 8

Deepak Jaikishan says he is going to sue me. That would be a good idea. Then we can ask Miss Wong -- Deepak’s secretary in the red dress in the video below seated next to him -- to explain why she…

Now that the shit has hit the fan

Sometimes we need a storm to get people’s attention. Maybe now the police will do what I have been asking them to do these last three years: that is, investigate my statutory declaration and…

Spot the spin contest

Today, Malaysia Today is running a spot the spin contest. See if you can spot the spin from what I actually said in my interview in Australia with regards to the Statutory Declaration that I signed…

Dayak Baru Memberontak

DARI JELEBUHishamuddin Rais  Kota Miri kota dipesisiran laut. Kota sempadan. Kota Golok untuk orang Brunai. Bersih, baru dan tersusun. Kota hujung minggu tempat orang Brunai ‘melepas geram’. Cukup…

15% tax or sincerity?

It is mind boggling to have 2 or 3 tax rates in the spirit of 1Malaysia. (1 for you and me, another for Iskandarians down south and now the NEP rejects. By Lee Wee Tak