Zaid Ibrahim Last week I wrote about the religious authorities’ wrongful exercise of power on Kassim Ahmad for expressing his opinion. I would venture further to suggest that there are many…

The multi-racial support for Pakatan Rakyat and PKR is not only strong but growing Koon Yew Yin, FMT In the run-up to the Kajang by-election on March 23, I was honoured to be asked to speak…

Ex-Convent Girl The past participle ‘vanished’ is now being used to describe the ill-fated flight MH370. After almost three weeks at sea, SAR operations have not been able to retrieve even a…

Two recent cases raise the issue of what amounts to sedition and why one can’t question or challenge a ‘fatwa’. Azmi Sharom, The Star THE recent conviction of Karpal Singh under the Sedition…

Maria J. Dass, fz.com WATER rationing in the Klang Valley which was scheduled to end on March 31 has now been extended to April 30, with even more households being affected. It is hard to…

Media censorship is a 'culture' in the communist state and yet it has the gall to accuse Malaysia of lacking in transparency over the tragedy Narinder Singh, Free Malaysia Today The MH370…

Khairie Hisyam Aliman, The Malay Mail As far as the “Allah” issue is concerned, the change in Sarawak’s chief minister had not brought any changes to the state’s stance. The awkwardness for…

OutSyed The Box A weasel is a small slender active carnivorous mammal (genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae, the weasel family) that preys on animals (like rabbits) larger than themselves,…

Pearl Lee, The Malay Mail It has been a difficult and tiring time for you since Flight MH370 went missing on March 8. From the 239 passengers on board the Malaysia Airlines plane, 154 were your…

Wong Sai Wan, The Malay Mail Much speculation has arisen over the supposed tussle between Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail for the PKR presidency but the…

The basic question is over the management of our water resources. We have plenty of this. The controversial Bakun hydro-electricity dams cover a land mass of twice that of the size of Singapore.…

OutSyed The Box Do you realise that for about 30 years after the advent of the New Economic Policy the Malays and Muslims in Malaysia were catching up pretty well with the others in…

A giant question mark still hangs over the survival of Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim’s position as Selangor Mentri Besar as his one-time political ally Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail waits in the…

Joceline Tan, The Star THE air had been heavy with speculation all day. The talk among the crowd at the PKR headquarters was that power couple Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Datuk Seri Dr Wan…

PKR is mirroring Umno in deceiving the public Narinder Singh, FMT PKR held its nominations for its party polls yesterday. The cards had pretty much been laid out, at least for the top most…

Mohsin Abdullah, Fz.com Dear fellow Malaysians, ADMIT it. We are easily confused. This is not good for the country. For us, in particular. But worry we must not. We have guardian…

The government is doing its very best. The tragedy is that its very best is not, in the eyes of many, simply good enough CT Ali, FMT It has been a traumatic month for Malaysians. On March…

The verdict is not just about Anwar or the opposition’s political ambition. It's about reclaiming our democratic future Eric Paulsen, FMT Ever since Anwar Ibrahim was sacked as Deputy Prime…

Everything is in the hands of the government. Aziz Bari Federalist papers, which contain ideas and background for the American Constitution, noted that the judicial branch, by comparison, is…

So how do we defend our government against the foreign media?  Kee Thuan Chye I feel sad and ashamed that the foreign media is saying that Malaysia cannot be trusted in giving out…

Balan Moses, The Sun Daily An open letter to Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail, the people of Kajang and Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun/MCA DEAR DR WAN AZIZAH Congratulations on your victory in…

For all the money that’s spent promoting the various political parties, it strikes me that more should be allocated to explaining Indonesia’s constitution. This is because the lower…

Ex-Convent Girl If there is one thing Anwar Ibrahim can offer the world, it would be his uncanny ability to grab all attention for himself even when it is largely unwarranted and in absolute…

The Malay Mail In a crisis surrounded by extraordinary circumstance, Malaysia, it seems, can do no right. Excoriated over what was labelled an overcautious approach in handling early…

For both Pakatan and BN, it is a case of 'win some, lose some' Selena Tay, FMT The Kajang by-election has been concluded on March 23, 2014, with PKR’s president, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail…

Muslims make a big mistake by mixing Arabic culture with Islam. Many believe that it was Prophet Muhammad who brought Islam, but this can’t be further away from what the Quran says. Ro Waseem,…

Clive Kessler, The Malay Mail After referring to a recent commentary (‘Almost there!’: The end of democratic Constitutionalism in Malaysia?), the first part provided an introduction to a more…

The Kajang by-election shows that the voters are more interested in national issues, even in state seats. Ong Tee Keat, FMT It is with great sadness that I refer to the recent defeat of MCA…

Helen Hickey, The Malay Mail I’ve become quite incensed by the heavy criticism of Malaysia’s handling of the ill-fated Flight MH370. The international media, without exception, have thrown all…

Lim Sue Goan, Sin Chew Daily It has been the 14th day into the mysterious disappearance of MH370. Without the assistance from so many countries, we alone would not have achieved anything today,…