Keeping calm: Najib has stayed focused despite Dr Mahathir throwing everything including the kitchen sink at him. Joceline Tan, The Star IN a few weeks’ time, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will be…

Wong Chun Wai, The Star MY family home in Kampung Melayu, Air Itam in Penang, is more than 56 years old. That’s about my age, and it has never been hit by floods. Not once! But last week, my…

Joceline Tan, The Star TAN Sri Shahrizat Jalil’s house in Damansara Heights used to be a grown-ups’ kind of home – cosy yet sophisticated. Today, the first thing you notice in the living…

For MCA to win at least 15 parliament seats, Umno should not be running its ally down. K Pragalath, Berita Daily Umno should not be the stumbling block for MCA to improve its political…

Opposition leaders may be ignoring an important point when they condemn the arrest of Shafie Apdal as an alleged political move to smear the image of Parti Warisan Sabah ahead of the 14th general…

If anyone feels that racism is bad today, he or she must have not experienced what we experienced those years. Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew Daily Darkness hang over me on this day thirty years…

The blame game over the tragic Penang landslide started even before the first body was recovered while a polemic debate about the tragedy is still rippling through social media.  Joceline Tan, The…

Thirty years after the operation, some of the same issues – race, religion, language – still plague some of our politicians.  Wong Chun Wai, The Star MOST Malaysians are familiar with the…

Kuik Cheng Kang, Sin Chew Daily "if you have a travel plan for end of the year, go ahead, for the general election will not be held this year." That was a tip from someone close to PM Najib.…

Accepting blame and retrenchments are not populist but it is not the job of political parties to please. Sometimes, to lead they must show strength rather than assume the role of Pied Piper.…

Adakah Pakatan Harapan menyediakan satu rancangan yang jelas dan konsisten mengenai bagaimana janji-janji ini akan dibiayai dan dilaksanakan? Khairul Amir, Malaysian Access PAKATAN Harapan…

Mendepani PRU yang akan datang, UMNO dan BN tentunya tidak mahu tewas di kawasan-kawasan kampung ataupun luar bandar kerana kalahnya mereka di kampung bererti tumbanglah mereka di Semenanjung.…

Knowingly or otherwise, or possibly stupidly, he has delivered the entire Chinese and Indian votes to Pakatan in the state even before GE14 is called Narinder Singh, Berita Daily The monsoon…

There will be those who will tell me to shut up. These are the pragmatists, who would rather the past be forgotten so that there can be victory today. Yeah well, I can’t stop them from acting and…

How he responds, may decide the outcome of the party and the state in the coming 14th general election as the people will want to know whether they are voting in a government with a backbone or…

Fa Abdul I READ with great interest about the protests held by Bugis descendants in Malaysia, urging Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed to apologise for using the racial card when he allegedly said…

(TMI) - Kuda kepang diharamkan di Johor dengan alasan kononnya akan merosakkan akidah umat Islam, tetapi motif kuda kepang yang haram inilah yang diangkat menjadi batu simen bangunan yang…

The tenor of political and policy issues has become predominantly religious of late. Tricia Yeoh, The Malaysian Times MALAYSIA’s 14th general election (GE14) will have to be held by August…

The state should not condone much less encourage or support segregation under any guise. M. Bakri Musa One crippling deficiency of Malaysian educational institutions is its ambience, or to be…

Joceline Tan, The Star DATUK Seri Shafie Apdal has not lost his composure throughout his ordeal these last few days. The Warisan president knew it was only a matter of time before the…

There is still a sense of uneasiness about Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad among many voters. They cannot decide whether they can trust someone who can change his political alliance and views the way people…

The political attacks against Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Dzulkifli Ahmad accusing him of having an affair with a married woman are despicable, but what…

Amanah is staging its national convention in Alor Setar this weekend in the hope of capturing the Malay-majority state of Kedah with the help of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.  Joceline Tan, The Star…

But that freedom stops at my nose. And at the tip of that nose is my right to be treated as an equal, not as an untouchable just because I don’t believe in your religion. Abdar Rahman Koya is…

The Sultan of Johor's decree last Saturday that the state Islamic authorities disengage from the national Islamic development agency has raised the question of who calls the shots in Malaysia's…

The drama over a crumbling building in the heritage heart of George Town has come to resemble a Hokkien soap opera, with groups ranging from Chinese clans to a defunct triad laying claim to the…

Offending someone should not be a crime. Boo Su-Lyn, The Malay Mail Online Muslim preacher Zamihan Mat Zin made some toe-curling racist comments about the Chinese in a speech at a mosque in…

I would like to know how the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) could have employed this person as a preacher and I am equally interested to know how the Selangor Islamic Religious…

Untuk maklumat rakyat, diantara 20 IPTA yang terdapat di seluruh negara, hanya seorang sahaja wakil atau pegawai berbangsa India yang berjawatan tinggi di bahagian hal ehwal pelajar. B Nantha…

It is no secret that the DAP led by its advisor Lim Kit Siang wants to win the upcoming 14th general elections. Together with Pakatan Harapan, DAP has set its sights on wresting Putrajaya away…