The Dyana Effect

I thought to myself that there are actually people who are not selfish for once. They know they were taking a big risk but yet they still did it because they knew it was a right move. The…

Teluk Intan and all that jazz

Azly Rahman What is promised to our youth in this by-election that is pitching the old versus the young? What do we need to see radically changed in our society? Here are my thoughts,…

Racing in Malaysia

Or: How I flew 23,000 miles to drive a diesel station wagon in soul-crushing traffic, sleep in a hotel with bloodstains on the headboard, and lose a race to a 1.5-liter hatchback mostly because I…

Déjà vu Chegubard

KTemoc Konsiders HEALTH WARNING: Readers who may suffer medically from kaytee's wakakaka-ing are advised not to read this post as there's mucho wakakaka's, wakakaka! The Star Online - PKR…

Muslim religious freedom

The excessive pre-emptive action in trying to stop the private members’ bills on hudud from going for its first reading in Parliament shows how intolerant some people are towards Islam, says …

Who gained from May 13?

The incident provided an excuse to suspend the Constitution, to neutralize Tunku and to introduce Emergency rule. The result was an environment in which privileges for Malays could be easily…

Teluk Intan, a gift from PAS

Zaid Ibrahim I have no doubt that DAP’s Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud will win the Teluk Intan by-election, even though she’s another example of Lim Kit Siang using his usual ploy of singing the…

Isma: Child of the NEP

Dr. Lim Teck Ghee, CPI 45 years after the New Economic Policy was introduced, the harvest of the NEP is being reaped. The NEP was supposed to have a 20 year time span and to end in 1990. That…

DAP focuses too much on race

Salleh Said Keruak Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, DAP’s candidate for the Teluk Intan by-election, is being touted as the greatest thing since the invention of apple pie. She is young. She has the…

The necessary Malay-nization of DAP

KTemoc Konsiders To be frank I have not been personally comfy with the choice of Ramkarpal Singh Deo as the DAP's candidate for Gelugor. Now, my unease has nothing, nothing at all, to do with…

Who is the enemy?

Zaid Ibrahim Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Najib Razak is lucky to have Khairy Jamaluddin as an ally and mind-reader. Every time Najib says something silly, which happens quite frequently, Khairy is…

Najib’s unfortunate inheritance

Salleh Said Keruak Malaysian Airlines has been losing billions over the last three years and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that it might be too late to save the national flag…

A storm in a teacup

Salleh Said Keruak The opposition is trying to paint the recent Terengganu episode as a crisis. In fact, they are even labelling it a Constitutional Crisis and are equating it to the Perak crisis…

UMNO Serupa Rumah Berhantu?

If one or both of the Bebas decide to vote in favour of a "no confidence" motion, UMNO's goose is cooked in Terengganu. OutSyed the Box Well the Terengganu crisis is over. So says The Star's…

Malaysia, Clinton and TPP

World Future Online With the controversial TPP on its way to materialization, the real question is what happens to the treaty once the it is inked and a Hilary Clinton administration in place…

Is Hudud the Law of Amputation?

In the lift with me were several Malay women and a man wearing an MCA T-shirt proclaiming “Defend the Constitution.” One makcik remarked that MCA translates Hudud as “law of amputation.” We exited…