Zahid (left) shaking hands with Tun Hanif. Also present is Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Alwi Ibrahim. (fz.com) - "The main actors refused to cooperate because they doubted the credibility of…

 Meskipun saya dan Dato’ Sri Najib berbeza dari segi pandangan politik, namun saya tetap yakin bahawa tumpuan harus diberikan kepada perdebatan idea, dasar dan ideologi – bukan serangan peribadi atau…

 Since you’re not respecting your own country, what respect do you expect those of us visiting your country to have of you? Eddie Barnes, UK 

 (Bloomberg) - At a time when slowing economic growth and political protests from Brazil to Turkey are spurring capital flight from emerging markets, Malaysia has turned into a refuge for equity…

(The Malay Mail) - The corruption menace involved “not only the police”, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said today, suggesting the force was being blamed for bribery involving other enforcement…

The real reason the Government would want to retain the Sedition Act – and Zahid should really be honest about this – is to use it to silent political dissent. And this has been proven in practice…

(Bernama) - Five human rights lawyers and an activist today won their suit against the police and the government over their arrest, detention and malicious prosecution during a walk to mark World…

He pointed out that former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has now said that the Sedition Act should not be repealed, saying that if Najib does not go ahead with the law’s abolition, it…

The Red Bean Army and its ilk will face criminal and civil action for spreading lies about the police through the Internet, says the Home Minister.  Anisah Shukry, FMT The…

The Muslim belief is that the inscription in the Dome of the Rock is an ‘Islamic’ inscription and dedicated to the Prophet Muhammad and the religion of Islam because of two words -- ‘Muhammad’ and…

(Daily Express) - A former senior police officer has filed a defamation suit against six mainstream newspapers alleging he was a "victim" of a smear campaign.

What determines the level of productivity and hence the wages? asks the writer.  By Medecci Lineil, FMTI was very pleased to read last week’s headlines all carried a variant of…

Yuktes Vijay Two years back, Malaysians gathered, held hands, walked, yelled slogans, braved tear gas and withstood police beating. All this was for the…

Tengku Adnan today also said he was in support of introducing a new law to replace the Emergency Ordinance (EO) as a means of deterrence. Tarani Palani, fz.comAnother minister has alluded that the…

{youtube}QeDm2PrNV1I{/youtube}12 year old boy excoriates the Muslim Brotherhood, relentlessly dissecting their power grab for Egypt.  

 Tunku Abdul Aziz, what I need is equality, equal opportunity, justice and fair treatment by the government. I want to be respected as an individual Malaysian. That is all I need.Tota, Aliran 

 Can MCA’s political doldrums be reversed? (The Malay Mail) - After the ninth general election in 1995, there were 100 Yang Berhormat in the party, comprising 30 MPs and 70 assemblymen. In GE10…

 (TMI) - When you can’t manage leadership in an organisation, how can we manage the fight against corruption?Perception is everything and the presence of officials from government agencies Pemandu and…

Does the uniqueness of Malaysia simply defy the logic of FPTP?Wong Chin Huat, fz.com 

If you hope to leak national security information and avoid prosecution, don’t do it solo, as Snowden (and perhaps Cartwright) did. Bring a posse of like-minded leakers with you to muddy your tracks.…

 (The Star) - Sarawak Report founder Clare Rewcastle Brown has described as unfair attempts to push through a case in the Malaysian courts in her absence.“My position is that I do not accept the ‘out…

PKR’s Rafizi Ramli (picture) today alleged that Putrajaya was foregoing the outstanding RM163 million from the loan issued to the National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) after its cattle-farming…

(FZ.com) - Police scored four on a scale five – five being most corrupt – in a list of institutions, a public survey conducted by Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) found.

The Economist ON the face of things, this week's events in Egypt have validated a theory about Islam and society that seemed contrarian when it was first floated. In 1992 a French analyst of the…

(NST) - The government must lower the teaching entry requirement for students who excel in sports and those from the Orang Asli community, said the National Union of Teaching Profession (NUTP)…

(The Star) - The Penang Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency (MACC) has recommended to the Attorney-General to close all seven cases of alleged vote buying in the state during the 13th general…

Many Muslims resent it if we call Islam ‘political Islam’ and if we say that Islam spread at the point of the sword. They consider this as negative publicity and will say that this is western…

This clash of opposing ideologies is at the heart of the struggle in Egypt, and may well play out in other Muslim countries with varying degrees of intensity. And here, there are many parallels to…

Malaysia's debt-to-GDP ratio is 53.4% as at the end of 2011, and therefore still relatively safe. But if government weans us off subsidies but installs new forms of spending, this brings us back to…

(AFP) - More than half of respondents in a global corruption survey released Tuesday think that graft has worsened over the past two years, and a quarter reported having paid officials a bribe in the…