Dim future for KL oasis

I have been hiking in Bukit Kiara for the last three years, but always in the daytime, and I’ve only ever seen the occasional squirrel and long-tailed macaque, but the night hike showed us the…

Is BN ready for the election?

The incident will very likely deplete the ruling coalition of the few percent Chinese votes that would have otherwise returned to BN, especially in Johor. It is utterly essential for MCA leaders…

Keep ‘low-class’ squabbles out

Wong Chun Wai, The Star SOME of our politicians seem to have a knack for sticking their foot in their mouth. They likely enjoy doing it with the belief that their bravado helps authenticate…

A cursed but coveted seat

Pakatan has been blowing its trumpet about toppling the Umno fortress in Johor. It might want to put its effort into defending Selangor because the state is no longer a Pakatan fortress without…

Criticism is part of democracy

There are limits to free speech, of course, but as was stated by the US Supreme Court, voices that are critical of public figures, particularly in matters of public interest, must be given as much…

So close, yet so hard to read

Joceline Tan, The Star FOR many years after the political tsunami, Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon was like some sort of “invisible man” in Penang. The former Chief Minister has many friends and…

Why the Chinese hate MCA and BN

By Sebastian Loh, Free Malaysia Today Poor MCA. The party’s leaders have been wearing their best game faces as the general election approaches, apparently confident that they’ll make gains.…

The unsatisfying vote

Praba Ganesan, Malay Mail Online This column has no good news today. Sorry. Probably because it is about the impending general election, and its key participants, voters, or pertinently, the…

Addressing the #undirosak detractors

Hafidz Baharom, Malaya Mail Online Since Pakatan Harapan’s prime minister in waiting has announced that the manifesto launch has been delayed to reassess their promises, I shall now restart the…

Why are we obsessed with LGBT?

Are the LGBT even any threat at all to Malaysians or their way of life? Are they demanding other people give up their personal freedoms on account of them? Are they intruding into or encroaching…

Silence is golden on palace move

Joceline Tan, The Star THERE has been an uneasy silence among the main political players in Kelantan over the dramatic revocation of titles by the Sultan of Kelantan. It was a mini…

The Chinese political jigsaw

(MMO) - This election will not resolve the Chinese Malaysian political identity, regardless of how many seats DAP wins and how BN squeezes in a few Chinese ministers through. It is unclear if…

The Chinese dilemma

The Malaysian Chinese community indeed pinned its hopes on the BN before. Even though BN won the overwhelming support of Chinese Malaysians in the general elections of 1974, 1982, 1995, 1999 and…

Do we need new law for ‘fake news’?

It would appear that we have a history of laws being made and the people being told that the laws are for one thing and instead they are used for another thing Azmi Sharom, The Star THERE is…

Chinese dragons to slug it out

Joceline Tan, The Star THERE is a Chinese saying that there is no room for two dragons in one den. How apt given the moves now underway by one dragon to conquer the den of a rival dragon in the…