Anwar versus HRH?

Umar Mukhtar Tomorrow is D-day, the day when Selangorians will see if their constitutional monarch will accept PKR's and DAP's contention that a constitutional monarch is merely a ceremonial…

Dr Wan Azizah, the good wife

Boo Su-Lyn, Malay Mail Online As a feminist, I don't want the first woman mentri besar in Malaysia to be PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. Her appointment would not herald a…

PAS untuk Semua? PAS untuk Melayu?

Mungkin tidak rugi untuk PAS meneliti pengamatan dan analisa saya tentang “pasarannya" di kalangan bukan Muslim sebelum membuat keputusan sama ada untuk “menjentik” pengundi bukan Melayu dan…

Is Singapore a racist country?

Surekha A. Yadaf Often in the lift that deposits me on my flat’s floor, I am quizzed by curious neighbours and their ilk on my Singaporean-ness. “Where are you from girl?” “Singapore”…

This column is not seditious

Zurairi AR, The Star “The Sedition Act will not by itself eliminate sensitive matters. “The government realises how important it is to really understand the grievances and complaints of the…

To politic or not to politic

It is difficult to believe that Khalid Ibrahim will settle in the nest that others have made for him. Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today The actors may have forgotten their lines, but the…

Rethinking the Malaysian community

One Malaysia is truly a Many Malaysia. Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi, TMI When I was invited by my colleagues to deliver a talk to a group of final year architecture students at UiTM on the…

So who is meek and who is evil now?

Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew Daily "Secret societies infiltrating the PPS?" Several members of the Penang "Voluntary Patrol Force" (I have put the terms within inverted commas in view of its…

Anwar has locked himself into a paradox

Khalid remained convinced his replacement can be anyone except Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (the nepotistic wife) or Azmin Ali (the blind royalist), PKR president and deputy president,…

Time for Wan Azizah to bring it on

If my party president wants to assume the leadership, then she has to ride her mandate and not just sit in the carriage waiting to reach her destination. Praba Ganesan, Malay Mail Online…

Now Wanita Umno wants VP post

Azman Ujang UMNO, in power continuously since the country's independence, is now abuzz with polemics sparked off by its women wing chief's proposal for a fourth vice presidential post…

Khalid did it by the book

Shahrum Sayuti, NST WHAT transpired at Istana Bukit Kayangan yesterday was in contrast to the dramatic way PKR attempted to oust Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim from the menteri besar’s post.…

PKR, DAP taking on the Sultan?

It looks like the Selangor political crisis is turning into a constitutional crisis. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today In defiance of a royal command—a titah—by the Sultan of Selangor,…

Serving with integrity and passion

R. Nadeswaran, The Sun Daily IT was something that even a cleverly scripted itinerary would have caused the sequence of events to be played out. She was a member of the Board of the Women's…

Who’s ‘qualified’ to be MB?

Adat istiadat will be the guide to what will happen next. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim had an audience with the Sultan of Selangor and indicated that in…

Stepping out of her comfort zone

The PKR congress this year was very much about projecting Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the party’s candidate for the Selangor Mentri Besar post. Joceline Tan, The Star IF one had…

Dr Mahathir on the attack

Umno leaders are wondering whether it is just straightforward criticism or if there is a  bigger agenda to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s open attack on the policies of Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.…

Mampukah Dr Mahathir menumbangkan Najib?

Amin Iskandar, TMI Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad walaupun sudah berusia masih lagi kuat kerana semangat perlawanannya yang tinggi. Sejak awal penglibatannya dalam politik, bekas perdana menteri itu…

An end to the Selangor saga

Akil Yunus, The Star AFTER an action-packed few weeks, the Selangor Mentri Besar crisis has slipped into a brief lull as the battling characters await the return of the Sultan from an overseas…