Umar Mukhtar Chief Minister of Penang, Lim Guan Eng, is in deep shit. Lame excuse after lame excuse. I don't have to be a car enthusiast to know the if the price of the used car I am buying is…

Lim Sue Goan, Malay Mail Online The new round of vicious political duels has just begun and this time it is anticipated to be a whole lot more intense than the previous rounds. Former PM Tun…

The Third Force Yesterday, Lim Guan Eng did what any poker-faced Chief Minister (CM) would never do in a million years – he called a Spade a Lim. The soon-to-be-former CM of Penang poured…

Umar Mukhtar It is good to hear that Dr. Mahathir Mohamad will be going about his wish to remove Prime Minister Najib Razak in a peaceful democratic way. That's the way to go. The significance of…

Umar Mukhtar Yes, I am one of them, to a fault. I have a family and kids who have been brought up to trust that people will stop their cars when the lights turn red and stuff which make certain…

The new round of vicious political duel has just begun and this time, it is anticipated to be a whole lot more intense than the previous rounds. Lim Sue Goan, Sin Chew Daily Former PM Tun…

(The Sun) - How could one official “beat” the system without the connivance of his colleagues? He could not have prepared the payment vouchers and supporting documents, approved it and presented…

M. Bakri Musa www.bakrimusa.com Last of Six Parts Malaysia is today paralyzed – and polarized – by the scandal of One Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a government-linked company…

The Third Force It’s been a scorcher of a month here for Malaysians, and surprisingly, Penangites aren’t complaining. The island state’s populace may have gotten used to soaring temperatures…

For Mahathir, the choice is clear: he will remove any of his successors who try or even appear to undermine Ketuanan Melayu Prof James Chin There is an ongoing debate about Mahathir’s…

Umar Mukhtar If a Setiausaha Bahagian of an insignificant ministry can create false projects for him to covertly collect up to 100 million Ringgit, obviously there is something terribly wrong…

Umar Mukhtar The word from Sungai Buloh is to rein in PKR's Selangor Menteri Besar who's getting too big for his boots. The problem is there's no one available in the leadership hierarchy to do…

Has Penang CM Lim Guan Eng's willingness to open up his private home to the media turned the spotlight on other CM's houses? Zakiah Koya, The Heat Malaysia It is perhaps the first time that…

Umar Mukhtar What you see is what you get. Malaysia today is the Malaysia that Dr. Mahathir Mohamad dreamt of but that had turned into his own nightmare. Malaysia today is the Malaysia that YM…

The battle for the Sarawak vote will involve campaigning across a vast and rugged terrain but the fiercest fight will be for the Chinese vote in the urban centres. Joceline Tan, The Star THE…

Umar Mukhtar The selling price of the bungalow that Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng bought is not a unique case. In my lifetime, I can rattle off the fingers of my hands such deals where…

Umar Mukhtar Basically it broke up an opposition front and PAS lost some of its brightest minds. And basically it boils down to progressiveness versus conservativeness. And not to the quarrel…

The big fuss over Penang GLC directorships shows that Pakatan is not practising what it preaches on Competency, Accountability and Transparency   WH Cheng, Berita Daily The Pakatan…

Umar Mukhtar Lim Kit Siang is busy these days trying to cushion the prospective failures and counter-productivity of his recent initiative to team up with an old enemy, ex-prime minister Dr.…

You also need to be reminded that you are not God — it is not your prerogative to prevent people from taking their own money out of the fund, never mind preventing them from being allowed to go.…

Umar Mukhtar Let me be perfectly clear. If anybody, Prime Minister Najib Razak included, had manipulated financial transactions involving public funds of government-owned units entrusted to him in…

So for argument’s sake, if the coterie to overthrow PM Najib in fact existed and his reputation assassinated by media, are we all not guilty of false accusation? How do we give redress to such an…

In war no quarter is given, and in this instance I am afraid the group that doesn’t seek to “conquer” may be the group that has the most casualties. They become a natural collateral damage. Stay…

It seems to me that PAS is seeking a partnership only to obtain strength in numbers, but is unwilling to propose and embrace a collective identity that may require some sacrifices on its part.…

Adviser to SUARAM slams RPK for his "perplexing volte face" that saw the once pro-Anwar blogger now throwing his weight behind Najib Razak instead. Kua Kia Soong, Free Malaysia Today Having put…

Manjit Bhatia, New Mandala In hounding Malaysia’s scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak from office, the autocratic Dr Mahathir, his old foes and others have moulded a union — of sorts.…

Umar Mukhtar For the past week, the new allies of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad have been stumbling over each other to defend their move to embrace their hitherto declared enemy as their new informal leader…

If Pakatan Harapan were to win the next election, the current leader of the coalition might not be a suitable prime minister because she probably would not have the majority support of Pakatan…

Is the Citizens' Declaration a one-day – or at best, a one-week - news story that is now already stale and forgotten? Or can it really galvanise the opposition and public? Lim Teck Ghee, The…

Umar Mukhtar It does seem to me now that in Malaysia criminal liability is subject to popular discretionary judgement. Prime Minister Najib Razak, though yet to be prosecuted by a court of law,…