Making a young girl your indentured sex slave isn’t saving her Erna Mahyuni, Malay Mail Online While neighbouring Indonesia has decided to ban child marriage, in Malaysia we have people…

TK Chua, Free Malaysia Today What has happened to all the Pakatan Harapan politicians who were so good at saying all the right things before the election but are now blind, deaf and dumb to all…

With them, there is no compromise, no common ground, nothing left over to share. Even their definition of terms like national unity and harmony differs from its common usage –unity means respect…

How would the nation have developed if the “People’s Constitution” of the AMCJA-PUTERA coalition had been adopted? Kua Kia Soong, Free Malaysia Today The 1948-1960 Emergency was a crackdown…

The PKR election was supposed to be about the crowning of Anwar as the party president but it looks like the spotlight is on who will be his deputy. Joceline Tan, The Star A HIGH stakes…

The problem with Muslim religious scholars is that they seem to project that they know everything… correction – that they know everything that should be known to live a good life and to go to…

Kua Kia Soong, Free Malaysia Today The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religion) Mujahid Yusof Rawa told parliament on July 24 that a Religious and Racial Hatred Act would be…

It is no use to anyone if the cabinet is made up of corrupt, scheming, dishonest racist leaders who believe in polarisation and not ability or meritocracy. Clement Stanley, Free Malaysia Today…

The premise not enough Malays support Pakatan is a red herring. There are not enough Malays behind Umno too in this regard. Praba Ganesan, The Malay Mail Online Here’s the detractors’ claim.…

Of course, many Malays reading this piece will try to drown out my voice by shouting that the Chinese and Indians also want to be Chinese and Indians and not Malaysians, and that they are the real…

This over-sensitivity when it comes to religion has consequences — no one deserves to die for insulting your religion. Your religion isn’t threatened. Your religion has no feelings anyone…

So, who is watching the CEP and its influential gatekeepers? Terence Fernandez, The Malay Mail Online A senior minister recently sacked a newly-appointed official in his ministry after the…

I could not care less if we have a thousand school systems as long as young Malaysians from the different races are learning together in class, playing together on the school fields, and…

Prices should come down at every stage after the GST was zero-rated, but in some cases, they have gone up instead. TK Chua, Free Malaysia Today What does it tell us when we have more…

Based on 20% royalty, Sabah should get RM2.6 billion, double the current Budget estimate - but with profit-sharing, the amount could be as much as RM4.5 billion. Joe Samad, Free Malaysia Today A…

Petronas belongs to the Malaysian people and yet through the years of profligate spending and bailing out failed crony capitalists, there is no transparency in its accounts. Kua Kia Soong,…

Azmi Sharom, The Star I CANNOT begin to tell you how angry I am at the objections raised regarding Tan Sri Richard Malanjum’s elevation to Chief Justice. All forms of opinion are welcome, of…

If we need only RM21 billion from the SST, we could reduce the current GST rate which yields RM44 billion to a rate much lower than 6%. TK Chua, Free Malaysia Today There is a need for…

Malaysians could end up seeing a repeat of antics they were not amused with but with the initiatives coming from BN and its allies now that the coalition is in the opposition. Zaidi Azmi, The…

Kua Kia Soong WHAT a breath of fresh air it was to read activist lawyer Fadiah Nadwa Fikri's thought provoking musings ("Don't kiss the hands that beat you") on the meaning of freedom and…

Putrajaya must explain why it refuses to extradite the Indian cleric and why he deserves to remain in Malaysia. Dennis Ignatius, Free Malaysia Today What’s so special about Zakir Naik? Why…

Nobody deserves to be faced with such discrimination, especially with a government pushing for change and promising to uphold human rights for everyone, even if it’s the former prime minister who…

My disgust with this whole post-truth charade over the use of the national language is the hypocrisy of it all. More than that, in the eyes of non-Malays, the language is seen as a linguistic tool…

The answer to a circumspect Pakatan Harapan, a waning Umno and frustrated voters is to end the first past the post (FPTP) elections in Malaysia. Praba Ganesan, The Malay Mail Online The…

The kind of massive corruption and abuse of power that went on during the last couple of decades was not just the work of one man. Dennis Ignatius, Free Malaysia Today Any hopes that Umno…

People are not in a rush to judge Pakatan Harapan but the euphoria will soon dissipate, which means PH will have to start now to resolve issues affecting the public. By TK Chua, Free Malaysia Today…

Umno members wanted someone who could stand up and have the guts to protect the party's traditions and status quo. Zharif Badrul, Free Malaysia Today First, let’s take a step back. During…

Whether we like it or not, Malaysia’s political fundamentals are anchored in a race-based power sharing ideology, which means racial politics will stay. Darshan Singh, Free Malaysia Today A lot…

“Zahid and Umno should stop their wet dream that they can get back to power before GE15 through Pakatan’s implosion. The internal difference within Pakatan is no deeper than that in Barisan.”…

It was billed as the clash of the titans on the eve of the 14th general election. The then caretaker prime minister Najib Razak addressed the nation. Almost simultaneously, Pakatan Harapan…