What we’ve been fed, turkey and all, about this celebration gets dumped down the chimney. Wong Chun Wai, The Star HERE are 10 myths about Christmas and of Malaysians going on holiday this…

By Kee Thuan Chye, Yahoo News The scourge is upon us. The Government is getting unreasonably authoritarian by suspending the publishing licence of the news weekly The Heat. We are seeing the…

Murray Hunter In the rapidly urbanizing ASEAN region today upward career mobility requires a diploma, degree, and some form of post graduate qualifications to get promotions, particularly within…

Rushdi Siddiqui, The Malaysian Insider “To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The…

Abdar Rahman Koya, The Malaysian Insider The recent parade of ignorance about Islam and its history, beamed from the cushy sofas in the polished halls of Putrajaya, calls for a rethink of the…

Our People-First PM must speak up on the various issues affecting the welfare of citizens Selena Tay, Free Malaysia Today When citizens are writhing under the weight of high prices and…

Is it time for Anwar Ibrahim to retire gracefully from politics? Without him, can Pakatan take on Umno in the next GE? CT Ali, Free Malaysia Today A few months to make or break a political…

Natesan Vishu What have we done to suffer being a Malaysian? It does not matter if you are Malay, Chinese, Indian, Iban, Kadazan, Orang Asli or Penan, the reality is all of are suffering from…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily In one swoop, secretary-general Tengku Adnan Mansor’s proposal to abolish the Barisan Nasional’s consensus system and replace it with majority rule will officially…

According to the latest study by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), RM173.8 billion was siphoned out of the country in 2011, making Malaysia the fourth largest exporter of illicit capital that year…

Public universities should not be a place just to obtain good grades. They should be a place where diverse ideas are celebrated, and intellectual independence and autonomy admired. Khoo Ying Hooi…

PAS has been stirred and shaken over the Home Ministry’s allegations that its deputy president Mohamad Sabu has Syiah links. On Thursday, the Home Ministry released a 10-point statement…

How can we ask non-Muslims to accept our sacred laws so that they can abuse it to escape capital punishment, asks the writer in his usual satirical nature.  Iskandar Dzulkarnain, FMT Going by the…

Pakatan must realise that Umno is a formidable opponent with deep pockets, large armies and an uncanny ability to go into the elections with all the positives stacked in their favour. Based on this…

2020 is significant because it is the year in which Malaysia expects to leave the crib of developing nations and enter the world of developed nations. Rama Ramanathan, The Malaysian Insider

The problem arises for liberals when citizens exercise their autonomy in a way that turns out to be hostile to autonomy itself. These rights permit citizens to develop homophobic, racist, or other…

 I care about Malays and that’s why I want an open debate to discuss how to really empower the Malay community in the correct, unbigoted, and non-racialised, way. I see changes in values, educational…

An usher holds programs with the image of the late Nelson Mandela on the cover before a memorial service at the Riverside Church in New York December 11, 2013. — Reuters picInterestingly I got more…

Transform, or be irrelevant soon, says the writer on Umno.I wouldn’t be surprised if they come up with ideas on how to include that into our birth certificates and ICs. Who is Umno and who is not.…

Dina Zaman, The Malay Mail I read Zurairi AR’s piece today and agree with him. While his piece spoke about how the next General Elections will be about the Islamist agenda, the reality is that…

The recent price hikes are just the beginning. Tolls, public transport fares, Quit Rent, sewerage and cooking gas too will go up soon enough. Selena Tay, FMT No leader of a nation will trouble its…

 Kee Thuan Chye When Nelson Mandela died last Thursday, some Malaysian political leaders paid him tribute and expressed their admiration for what he stood for.Prime Minister Najib Razak, who recently…

 What are the Regional Foreign Policy Consequences?Murray HunterThe largely Anglophile Singapore is an anomaly in South-East Asia. It has staunch connections with the US and Israel, and a network of…

 Kee Thuan ChyeUmno President Najib Razak diminished the stature of a great man when he said last Saturday at his party’s general assembly that Umno fought for the “same cause” as Nelson Mandela, who…

There is this worrying Arabisation trend in Malaysia. People want to talk, dress and behave like Arabs. Schools, for instance, have become places where students are indoctrinated with what is Arabic…

To come back to the present, this is why the recent demonisation of communism and socialism as represented by Parti Sosialis Malaysia is not so much about their basic arguments towards a fairer…

The question Umno needs to address is this: how many Malays are with Umno and how many against? And Umno is now looking at the Malays in PAS and PKR. CT Ali, FMT “By 2020, we would have increased…

Amin Iskandar, TMIDi antara sebab mengapa penjajah dapat menguasai tanah ini selama ratusan tahun adalah kerana kebodohan penduduk setempatnya. Selepas beberapa ratus tahun dijajah, barulah timbul…

History is interesting if we learn to live it, rather than just treat it as another examination subject.Wong Chun Wai, The Star IT’S a bit hard to swallow. Imagine you are a housing developer in an…

 Why do you want to write something about Sunni Islam into the constitution when UMNO Malays don’t have faith in our constitution?   Sakmongkol AK47