The myth of the two-party system

Malaysian politics has been at a crossroads since the 2008 general election. Politicians have engaged in a life-and-death confrontation while the people were forced to take sides of either to…

Uthaya wants to be a PAS candidate

HRP secretary-general P Uthayakumar says he is willing to stand as a PAS candidate in the general election. Alyaa Azhar, FMT Human Rights Party Malaysia leader P Uthayakumar wants to contest in the…

Najib set to break tradition

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak may break away from tradition by allowing the Johor state assembly to be automatically dissolved first before dissolving Parliament. G Vinod, FMT It appears that for…

Manila not giving up claim on Sabah

President Benigno Aquino says both countries should go back to the negotiation table on the Sabah issue. (FMT) - MANILA: In a clear indication that Manila has not given up its claim to Sabah,…

As the Altantuya Murder Plot Thickens

 The impression one gets is that Najib prefers to ignore the issue so that it won’t get any bigger, and that he hopes people will in time forget. But the issue is not getting smaller, and people have…

Media should not play up Mahathir

 How can we have two Prime Ministers, in fact three if we include Muhyiddin Yassin as well. The Constitution makes no provision for a Deputy Prime Minister. It's just an administrative device but the…

GE13: ‘Two dragons’ giving way

 Mohd Zin and Noh have declared that they are not after the mentri besar post, paving the way for Barisan Nasional to make Selangor the epicentre state in the general election.Joceline Tan, The Star 

Jabidah and Merdeka: The inside story

  (Rappler Editor's note: On March 18, 1968 -- exactly 45 years ago today -- at least 23 Muslim trainees were shot to death on Corregidor Island in what has since been known as the Jabidah massacre.…

Pamper the kingmakers?

You should by now see the ratio of civil servants and their families to the overall voter population. If we take 5.68 million, it is almost half of the number of eligible voters in the country, and…

We didn’t start it: Dr M

Radzi Razak, The Sun Daily Malaysia did not take the offensive in dealing with the Philippine terrorists but retaliated and attacked only after security forces were killed.

PR Manifesto: Sustainable?

The Pakatan Rakyat manifestoGan Pei Ling, The Nut Graph THE Pakatan Rakyat (PR) released its manifesto amid much fanfare at its national convention on 25 February 2013. The coalition…

Needed now: Some ‘good tailoring’

The NEP “morphed” into the NDP, and the package of political arrangements that had been devised to go with it was now given a new, and continuing, justification through the doctrine of “Ketuanan…