Chok Suat Ling, New Straits Times Malaysia is truly Asia, and its people are known to be ever smiling, gentle and polite. We are courteous, refined in speech, and well mannered — berbudi-bahasa…

Philip Golingai, The Star THE epochal photograph to emerge after Barisan Nasional’s thumping win in the 11th Sarawak polls does not tell the full story. The photograph used by most newspapers on…

Hafidz Baharom, The Heat Malaysia It was surprising to think that the DAP after all its poise in promoting that it’s race-based days were over, let one speaker run amok on a racist tirade in…

Jimmy Adit, The Ant Daily Giant billboards and banners screamed ‘Ubah’, ‘Mana RM2.6 billion?’ and ‘Tolak GST’. Campaigners screaming through loudhailers paraded up and down the streets of…

Umar Mukhtar Azmin's characteristic political demeanour of stoic patience and disguised ambitions is now under threat of erosion. President Wan Azizah Ismail's initiative of forming a task…

Umar Mukhtar Malaysians must be disciplined enough to distinguish between the investigations into the controversy surrounding the management of 1MDB and the role of Dr Mahathir Mohamad and gang…

Lim Sue Goan, Sin Chew Daily People holding different political stands will interpret the outcome of the 11th Sarawak state election in very different ways. To BN supporters, the most reassuring…

Azmi Sharom, The Star SARAWAK politics is really weird. For one thing, I have never understood how the Sarawak people I meet seem so annoyed at the orang Malaya and their Federal policies, yet…

One suspects that his main concern is to strengthen his faction in PKR in preparation for GE14. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today The return of BN to dominance in Sarawak was not merely an open…

The election win is rooted in local rather than national factors. Luke Hunt, The Diplomat Victory for the incumbent at Malaysian state elections in Sarawak has been billed by the…

Umar Mukhtar At a time when we want so bad to tell each other and the civilised world how we really feel about what's going on in our society so that we can move on to uphold the truth for our…

Adenan's model of administration is poised to influence the BN on Peninsular Malaysia, and open the eyes of Umno to the fact that Chinese Malaysians are not born opposition supporters. If they…

The opposition and its supporters in West Malaysia are too condescending in their attitude towards Sarawakians. Mikha Chan, Free Malaysia Today DAP leaders adopt an uncomfortably colonialist…

DAP is in for some serious soul-searching. It would be all too easy to blame everything on Adenan Fever. What happened in Sarawak also had to do with DAP itself. Joceline Tan, The Star THE…

A landslide BN victory in Sarawak must never be confused with a return of support for BN in Peninsular Malaysia. The vote in Sarawak is truly a vote for Adenan, not for BN. Ibrahim Sani, Free…

Umar Mukhtar With due respect, it appears like it is God's will that there could possibly be PRKs in the parliamentary constituencies of Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar. The talk on the ground…

Umar Mukhtar It is without the slightest doubt that in the aftermath of the Sarawak PRN yesterday, the biggest loser is DAP. Not only did it lose five of the twelve seats it won in its biggest…

Has Team Adenan earned enough goodwill to generate a landslide for BN? Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today It is our love of father figures that makes us put strong men in positions of power. In a…

From projects and vote-buying to patronage and betting, money politics in Sarawak is raining everywhere. But, as Bridget Welsh reports, there is little concern for the long-term damages as…

Neither SUPP nor DAP may be able to provide the strength and unity the Chinese community wants. Mikha Chan, Free Malaysia Today If it’s true that the pragmatism of the Chinese dictates their…

It is not the right thing to do. It is fundamentally wrong by any principle of democracy or even ethics. And is simply plain wrong by any stretch of the imagination. But by rule of law, it is…

Umar Mukhtar The Chinese of Sarawak have spoken; when they did not agree with the ruling party they joined the DAP. Where do the opposition Dayaks go to? There used to be the Sarawak National…

Given that Wan Azizah only endorsed 35 candidates, was Azmin trying to undermine her position as president of PKR? Hare Kari, Berita Daily Is it Azmin Ali or PKR who is responsible for the…

Umar Mukhtar That the terms of the 18-Point Agreement may not have been fully met by Kuala Lumpur in its obligations to Sarawak is definitely not a moot point. Until those terms are met,…

Umar Mukhtar Malaysians should learn from the Iraqi experience. When the United States of America wanted the Iraqi nation to be democratic like them, the Iraqis chose the one-man-one-vote…

Time to save Malaysia from neo-liberal capitalists, naked political opportunism, and racial discrimination. Kua Kia Soong, Free Malaysia Today In March 2008 the two-front system that we had…

“Politics and business are intertwined. The Foochows control the state’s economy and Sibu is their nerve centre,” said Calvin Yeo, an executive in a public-listed company in Kuching. Joceline…

Adenan’s gestures towards the Chinese community are well-known by now. The Chinese vote ran off in the 2011 state election largely because of their discontent over Tun Taib Mahmud. Joceline…

Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew Daily Flying into Kuching from Sibu is like taking a flight back to West Malaysia. The City of Cats is not much different from any major city in West Malaysia. The modern…

If the Sarawak fiasco is repeated in the run-up to GE14, the opposition may find itself paying the price in Parliament. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Ah, Pakatan Harapan, we hardly knew you.…