If I quoted all the statements condemning the OSA by former dissidents who now sit in the new government, they would run into reams. Kua Kia Soong Civil society strongly protests the Prime…

“THEY want to get to know the future PM.” That was how Prof Datuk Redzuan Othman summed up the large number of foreign diplomats at the launch of a book on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Joceline…

Tom Plate says while Beijing may have once appreciated the long-lived Malaysian prime minister’s straight talking, China’s leaders may have less taste for it now that they – and not the US or IMF –…

Joceline Tan, The Star Almost everyone who has met Tun Daim Zainuddin in recent times has been struck by how much he has aged since his heyday as the country’s economic czar. He is 13 years…

The Christian Federation of Malaysia calls for the people to join hands and work together to rebuild the nation. By Julian Leow, Dr Simon Poh, Dr Ong Hwai Teik and Dr Eu Hong Seng, Free Malaysia…

It would mean more to Sabahans if the promise of 20% oil royalty was fulfilled. Clement Stanley, Free Malaysia Today A recent headline in a local daily screamed “Anwar will treat Sabah…

THERE is little sense in grading a new government on its performance in its first 100 days in office especially if it has just replaced the world’s longest running coalition in power. Dr.…

MCA cannot just sit on the fence and do nothing over the tie-up between Umno and PAS because the party still needs the BN to take up exco positions in BN-ruled states as well as senatorial posts.…

RAFIZI Ramli has become some sort of a James Bond figure in the contest for the PKR polls. Joceline Tan, The Star He has “a licence to kill”, so to speak. The fact that he is neither an MP…

Mike Keane, The Australian The Malaysian government had a lot riding on its much-anticipated safety investigation report into the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — and so did the…

Philip Golingai, The Star ROCK the boat. Don’t tip the boat over. Rock the boat. Don’t rock the boat, baby. Rock the boat.” The song Rock the Boat by The Hues Corporation played in the mind…

Pakatan Harapan is upset that The Economist criticises the way the 'New' Malaysia is being run Tariq Ismail, Free Malaysia Today I refer to the article by FMT and NST referencing an editorial in…

P. Gunasegaram, Malaysiakini The first thing that Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng should do is to establish whether there was a robbery or not from payments of the goods and services tax or GST…

We need to get rid of the culture of censuring those in the civil service who speak up when they see wrong being done. Dr Amar-Singh HSS, Free Malaysia Today I found the courage to write…

We had high hopes when the new government came into power, but many of those hopes seem still unfulfilled. TK Chua, Free Malaysia Today I guess politicians in power are always different from…

You would think there is a secret gay army out to destroy the world, with the extent of LGBT-related news dominating headlines on a daily basis. Erna Mahyuni, The Malay Mail Online It’s not…

The trouble is that the Rafizi-Azmin contest has quickly boiled down to the question of who is more committed to the goal of Anwar becoming the next prime minister. Joceline Tan, The Star…

P Gunasegaram, Malaysiakini Another shocking accusation has been hurled against the previous BN government by Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng in Parliament on Aug 8, alleging the government…

Akhramsyah Muammar Ubaidah Sanusi, Malaysiakini I note with bemusement PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli's continued projection of himself as Dr Mahathir Mohamad's government's chief critic on…

BN is still the opposition that thinks that it is still the government Abdul Rahmat Omar, The Mole I remember a quote that is credited to the late Maya Angelou – “I’ve learned that people…

The results of GE15 results are starting to trickle in and as expected, it is another major tsunami. Only this time, the tides have changed and the tsunami has knocked out the Pakatan Harapan…

Pakatan Harapan's manifesto is no longer sacrosanct, and everybody knows it. TK Chua, Free Malaysia Today Before the change in federal government, it was easy: everything was blamed on the…

As power has a way of seducing people, who knows what a prime minister or government will do if there is no proper separation of powers and if too much power remains in the hands of a single…

Joceline Tan, The Star DATUK Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s party has begun referring to him as the next Prime Minister at public events. His first public confirmation that he would soon be returning…

Dzof Azmi, Star 2 Before news emerged of Khazanah’s failed RM80mil investment in online lingerie business Zivame, and the RM1.7bil loss in a not-that-clear deal with UBS investment bank, Prime…

Isn’t it amazing that the MICSS system is frequently accused of being segregationist even though all ethnic groups are welcomed into their schools? On the other hand, Mara institutions such as…

Before his accession to the Attorney-General's office, Tommy Thomas was Lim's counsel in the ongoing corruption case against him and a vocal supporter of the PH coalition. The conflict of interest…

In addition, the appointment of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as Chairman goes against the promise to reduce the power of the Prime Minister. If promises by the new government could be broken so easily,…

Thus, when there was a suggestion of “alleged wrongdoings” in the upper echelons of Khazanah, all of us in the NGO community without exception were flabbergasted. These flawed allegations have since…

How many times have Umno ministers been unapologetically racist, telling non-Malays to leave the country and “go back to where they belong”? Have these people been fired or forced to resign? Of…