Pakatan may lose 9 MP seats if…

An academic says that if there is a 30% swing in Indian votes, the opposition will lose nine seats. But Ong Kian Ming predicts only a 10% shift in votes.(Free Malaysia Today) - Pakatan Rakyat may…

MAS-Air Asia deal revisited

SAKMONGKOL AK47We hear of disturbing news that 15,000 MAS workers want the MAS-AA deal stopped. They have threatened to not vote BN in the coming GE. Is this the proverbial spanner thrown or does…

DAP causing a ‘Riot’ in Serian

By Joseph Tawie, FMT KUCHING: The centre set up by Sarawak DAP in Serian has not only set in motion its determination to wrest the parliamentary seat from the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP)…

Mr White, did you lie?

By Frankie D' Cruz, Malay Mail IN a sea of whining mediocrity comes ‘hard truths’ — so pure you’d collapse if you snorted it.More so, if it involved the core of our nation’s history.I am still…

Toying with history again in Malaysia

By Farish A Noor via The Malaysian Insider SEPT 12 — In all honesty, I really have many other things to do than waste my time commenting on what has to be one of the most inane and…

Ng Yen Yen Joins The Bandwagon

By Capt. Iskandar Dzulkarnain One cannot fail to realize that since Lim Guan Eng became the Chief Minister of Penang, he has become the butt of criticism from political leaders in the BN camp. He…

Is it really, Professor?

By Art Harun I must admit of being astounded by the claim by Professor Datuk Dr Zainal Kling that Tanah Melayu had never been colonised by the British, save for the period when Malayan Union was…

A message for fellow patriots

by Thomas Seng-Hock Lee  The hard time is fast descending upon us. Currently, many of us, especially senior citizens, are living from hand to mouth. After 35 years as a journalist, editor and…

Is This History or His Story?

By Masterwordsmith Many historians would probably not only have turned in their graves, but would have miraculously risen from the dead had they read Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's statement here that…

Britain is distorting history

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today said Malaysian history as currently taught in schools was inaccurate. National Professors’ Council (MPN) has taken the debate further by claiming that Malaya, the…

And the facts are…

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak says that we must not change historical facts. And one ‘historical fact’ is that UMNO fought for Merdeka. Well, let us go through this very brief history lesson about…

Hasan stays out of Khalid’s case

(The Star) - Selangor state exco member Datuk Dr Hasan Ali will not interfere in the Selangor Islamic Council's action against his fellow party member over the issue of preaching in mosques and…

Religious tensions simmer in Malaysia

 By Razak AhmadKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A raid on a church by Muslim authorities has raised religious tension in Malaysia and could cost Prime Minister Najib Razak votes in an election set for 2013…

Lip Service Laced with poison

I believe that once you enter into politics, you should know that the truth always catches up on you, and when you begin to flip-flop, people will hold it against you.By Douglas Tan