There are concerns that both sides will try to outdo each other in being more Malay and Islam than the other, and such fears are not unfounded, as at some point, the non-Malays will become the…
Almost every state in the peninsula, with the exception of Penang, will be in danger for Pakatan Harapan if Umno and PAS contest the next general election as ‘husband and wife’.
Joceline Tan, The…
SD Salleh
Pendedahan salah guna kuasa dan rasuah melibatkan projek terowong bawah laut Pulau Pinang adalah satu tamparan hebat kepada Pakatan Harapan. Ini kerana Pakatan Harapan menang PRU14…
80% of non-Malays voting for PH is seen as democracy, whilst 80% of Malays supporting Umno and PAS is called racism.
Ivanpal Singh Grewal, The Star
They say marriages are made in heaven,…
SD Salleh
Pada hari Selasa, 5hb March 2019, Pengerusi Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), Rameli Musa, telah dipanggil ke pejabat Suruhanjaya Pencegah Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM). Semasa di…
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury
As the possible implications of Britain's self-imposed ‘no-deal' exit from the European Union loom larger, a new round of imperial nostalgia has come alive.…
Tajuddin Rasdi, Free Malaysia Today
I have never written an “I told you so” article before, so I am going to try and see how it feels.
I wrote several pieces to warn about Whatsapp and…
Joceline Tan, The Star
SIGNS that the Semenyih by-election was not going well for Pakatan Harapan were visible within days of campaigning.
The ruling coalition was clearly suffering a trust…
Ti Lian Ker
(Twenty Two 13) - I had the opportunity to witness the argument of dumb and dumber. There’s so many of them around. Intelligent people giving lame arguments for the sake of arguing.…
Zainal Epi, Malay Mail Online
The political atmosphere in Semenyih, where a by-election is ongoing, seems relaxed and calm today amid the hot and humid temperature, with voters going about…
Any move to forcibly takeover the highway companies would lead to the government having to fund future infrastructure works.
M. Shanmugam, The Star
TOLL rates cannot be abolished altogether. At…
Joceline Tan, The Star
WHEN Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim arrived at Unisel to give a talk earlier this week, he was introduced as the “eighth prime minister of Malaysia.”
There was deafening…
Kua Kia Soong, Free Malaysia Today
The Cabinet has agreed to form a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to look into allegations of judicial misconduct after a top judge recently sounded the…
Selvaraja Somiah
It may seem that the war of words between Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Shafie Apdal began with some confusion over the issue on how many seats were initially secured by Parti…
Kua Kia Soon, Free Malaysia Today
Pakatan Harapan rode to power in the 14th general election (GE14) on a groundswell of disgust that Malaysians felt against the blatant scale of corruption…
Joceline Tan, The Star
A strange wind is blowing through Semenyih.
That is the feeling on the ground even though the campaign has only just begun.
In the run-up to the general election,…
Nicholas Cheng, The Star
It was the Watergate expose, of how a United States president knowingly lied about clandestine activities by his party that sank the Nixon administration in the 70's.…
If Umno had lied, if the DAP had lied, if the MIC had lied, it would be bad but it may not be seen as seriously because, as a religious party, PAS claims to represent Islamic tenets and goals.…
The free press in Malaysia has a long history of being compromised and infringed. From the 1961 takeover of Utusan Melayu by Umno to regular raids on Malaysiakini offices, there has often been…
Dr Mohd Zuhdi Bin Marzuki
Pusat Penyelidikan PAS
Selepas sahaja Muktamar PAS tahun 2015 yang berlangsung di Kuala Selangor, antara langkah terawal yang diambil oleh pasukan strategi PAS ialah…
They had better be prepared for brickbats if they break their own rules when the Semenyih campaign starts.
Joceline Tan, The Star
TUN Dr Mahathir Mohamad knew that public opinion would…
Whichever way we look at it, EAC is no more than just another government council made up of a team of seniors who are mostly in their late 60s and up.
Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew Daily
The…
Mariam Mokhtar, Free Malaysia Today
It’s not the gift but the thought behind it that counts. Similarly, in the recent brouhaha about the veracity of various ministers’ degrees, it is not so…
Leslie Lau, Malay Mail Online
Ask any professional sports team or athlete and they will likely tell you that winning a title is not easy but defending it is much, much harder.
When Pakatan…
Tawfik Ismail and Lim Teck Ghee , Free Malaysia Today
The stream of corruption and financial abuse of power cases brought against leaders of the previous government and its key supporters…
Joceline Tan / The Star
There has been quite a bit of self-denial coming from Pakatan Harapan leaders in recent weeks. But one thing they cannot deny is that Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, the…
Dennis Ignatius, Free Malaysia Today
The East Coast Railway Link (ECRL), one of former prime minister Najib Razak’s toxic legacies, is an issue that just won’t seem to go away. Soon after he…
TK Chua, Free Malaysia Today
Malaysia must continue to speak up on issues such as moderation, good governance, people’s livelihood, sound policies and progressiveness.
But Pakatan Harapan’s…
Philip Golingai, The Star
MEMO to Pakatan Harapan: You have a Malay problem.
The recent Cameron Highlands by-election, which BN convincingly won, is a wake-up call for the Pakatan Harapan…
Ho Wah Foon, The Star
THE subject on East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) has become more exciting now – thanks to the open bickering between two senior Cabinet ministers on the fate of the suspended…