Salleh Said Keruak The government has been urged to monitor and tighten up the existing regulations of the independent and private schools in this country, particularly those suspected of…

SeaDemon Says “Loose Talk Could Sink This Ship” “The Walls Have Ears” The above are among reminders you would normally see then in a military establishment. Whether or not these reminders…

KTemoc Konsiders Tun Daim Zainuddin has revealed he knows those behind a sudden spotlight on his business empire as Malaysia's anti-graft officials investigate the former finance minister's…

What Charlie Hebdo does is not journalism, it is sophomoric jokes and thinly disguised propaganda. Hebdo 's general tone and themes place it completely outside the mythic tableau of heroic defender…

Charles Hector Well, Malaysia has now outsourced the work of the annual permit renewal to ONE private company, MyEG Services Bhd, as of 5th January 2015. All these renewals will now have to be…

The Huffington Post UK The Prophet Mohammed, with a tear in his eye, is on the front cover of the first Charlie Hebdo edition published since Islamic extremists killed 12 people at the…

We must look at the Charlie Hebdo incident as of two seemingly interconnected but in reality separate issues. KTemoc Konsiders Precisely because of this, I have to call what happened in…

So long as the ego comes in and distinction is pronounced, the battle begins. All those who are not with us are against us. Economic Policy Are we now fighting extremism or militancy? I…

Khalid gets even more worked up than the Home Minister on petty issues like insults and postings on Twitter and Facebook. He has made sure that social media users and other individuals are charged…

Salleh Said Keruak The year literally started with a bang when Paris saw once of its worst acts of terrorism in recent years. This was followed on Sunday by a massive 1.5 million people march…

These poor native NT land owners have absolutely no idea how extensive the acreage owned by them or its location as no admission or information on neither these titles, sublease fees payments nor…

Clive Kessler, New Mandala The Ottawa parliament, Café Lindt, Charlie Hebdo and so many others too: these are all separate incidents.  But they are all part of the same global phenomenon.…

Why is the large number of seats for Sarawak so entrenched in the Federal Constitution? write2rest The principle of “one person, one vote, one value” was bandied around in the Sarawak State…

Lasha Darkmoon On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 am, two masked gunmen forced their way into the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. They killed twelve…

Mohd Nawab Mohd Osman, New Mandala The recent United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) meeting was full of contradictions. While Prime Minister Najib Razak exhorts the need for the government…

The Malaysian government remained silent today about the horrific killing of French cartoonists, with prime minister Najib Razak issuing a bald one-line statement that essentially said nothing.…

Salleh Said Keruak The issue of religion, in particular regarding Islam, is a sensitive issue, made worse of late due to the Allah issue and Bahasa Malaysia Bibles controversy. What is…

Sophie Lemière, New Mandala For over 30 years, Pekida has been one of the shadow allies of the ruling party, UMNO; emerging in the media only in 2008. The election results of 2008 were seen…

THE WHOLE WORLD was told of his e coli infection AFTER he came back from Bangkok.   OutSyed the Box Blogger Apanama highlighted this yesterday. According to the Bangkok Post, Najib's Bangkok…

Sophie Lemière, New Mandala Reconstructing the history of Pekida and its network’s is a hard task. No historical account of the organisation has been found, and every attempt to locate official…

Why did Shabery bring over Mohid to his new Ministry from KBS when it is believed that he has 14 cases under active investigation by MACC?  Another Brick in the Wall In the thick of the…

Sophie Lemière is the Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She holds a PhD and a Masters in Comparative Politics from Sciences-Po (France). She is…

Salleh Said Keruak It is not that I love Najib less but it is that I love Malaysia more. Yes, that is what veteran journalist Kadir Jasin implied in his ‘it is not that I love Caesar less but I…

Azly Rahman I wrote these as my  Facebook status the day I read about an upcoming gathering to restore ‘Malay pride’ with a proposed gathering of 20,00 people. RESTORE POWER SUPPLY RESTORE…

Salleh Said Keruak Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is being criticised for not attending to the flood problem. I really do not know what they expect from the Prime Minister and in what way…

It looks like the PM left  the official jet for his wife's personal use to continue her holiday in Indianapolis. Then the PM spent even more taxpayers money to take a commercial flight back home…

Salleh Said Keruak In the late 1970s, there was an exodus of Vietnamese ‘boat people’, most who ended up on the East Coast of West Malaysia. The UNHCR immediately set up a refugee camp on…

Citizen Times Idealistic Malaysians still cannot see how Pakatan Rakayt leaders have an unholy and disunited coalition their forced marriage of convenience – a mockery of the word…

When it comes to the implementation of hudud, you tend to hear absolute silence from Muslims who oppose it. It’s as if they have no answers to the trickery of those in Kelantan who are bent, for…

Salleh Said Keruak To understand the history of Malay disunity, we must first understand the history of the Malay Archipelago. And when I say the Malay Archipelago this will include what is…