Dr Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser  Having been part of the mother tongue education movement for most of my adult life, allow me to offer a blueprint based on the “Mother Tongue Premise for…

(MMO) - Government authorities have confused “inappropriate” with “indecent” dressing. Instead, they try to impose their mainstream beliefs about covering the “aurat” on everyone, including…

My complaints are always met with the same answer from the school principal. I-T-S A M-I-S-U-N-D-E-R-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G. Fa Abdul, FMT Apparently the story of a primary school teacher in Kedah…

Zakiah Koya, The Heat Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has displayed his own art of war by turning former enemies into allies just to serve his purpose. Mahathir has turned to the…

Umar Mukhtar The so-called PAS progressives who are contemplating to form a new party better do a lot soul-searching and address a few major issues. The assumption is always that there is need…

It's time for a new start for all three parties, and they might even emerge stronger. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Pakatan Rakyat was like a dream. Malaysia’s three largest opposition…

Khairie Hisyam Aliman, Malay Mail Online I have (or had) a dirty little secret: For most of my life, I did not follow any politics whatsoever. It’s hard to get interested growing up. I was…

Mahathir Mohamad, Malay Mail Online 1. Foreign Affairs is an American magazine. It is highly respected in America but it is not my favourite magazine. 2. Recently while flying I came across…

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad does not like to lose but it looks like he is losing in the fight to take down Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak because Umno wants to give the Prime Minister time to sort out the…

Umar Mukhtar Zam, or Zainuddin Maidin, the ex-newspaper reporter and Dr. Mahathir Mohamad's Minister of Information, wrote in his blog that English schools will never make a comeback in…

(MMO) - Why cannot the IGP, through one of his now infamous tweets, order the same treatment as has been dished out to dozens of activists, Opposition politicians and the nine times seditious…

Umar Mukhtar PKR's much exalted Supremo actually made a media statement that enough (plenty) BN MPs will be defecting to the opposition on September 16, 2008, and that there will be a change of…

Umar Mukhtar Things were going on well for LKS. The running dog was bringing goodies back dutifully. Hudud was in the back-burner or so it seemed. The Non-Malays in PKR was growing in influence…

Umar Mukhtar It's almost enough to boggle your mind. First, DAP signed a statement saying PAS was free to pursue whatever is their party ideals, while others were free to disagree. Then, when…

Umar Mukhtar Watching Lim Kit Siang and Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in a one-to-one face off in the Great Economi Debate of 1972 at Dewan Tunku Chanselor, Universiy Of Malaya, one couldn't help…

Umar Mukhtar It was a pragmatic Anwar Ibrahin's demand when finalising the electoral pact prior to PRU12, that no single party, DAP or PAS or PKR, is able to form any state government even if …

Zan Azlee, Astro Awani I strongly disagree with Umno’s Kelantan liaison chairman Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed when he claimed that the DAP’s intentions to build a mosque in Kelantan is an insult…

Umar Mukhtar According to PKR, the ADUNs who support the present Selangor State Government are in support of Azmin Ali, the Menteri Besar. Nothing that smacks of any kind of a formal coalition.…

The opposition pact once represented hope for a better Malaysia; so it is disappointing to see it collapse under the weight of egotism and stubbornness. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today After…

Chandra Muzaffar It is an irony that in spite of all the attempts to curb corruption --- through integrity pacts and pledges, the strengthening of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission…

Umar Mukhtar I say this with the the greatest respect for the institution of constitutional monarchy. Because it is part and parcel of the Constitution of my country. It is part of a whole. One…

Zubaidah Abu Bakar, The Rakyat Post THE day has come. Pakatan Rakyat, whose survival has remained threatened by internal schisms all along, is technically dead. The DAP, and some PAS and PKR…

The escalating feud between Johor’s Crown Prince and the Tourism and Culture Minister has raised questions on the scope of our royalty. M. Veera Pandiyan, The Star THESE are truly…

John Berthelsen, Asia Sentinel Banking executive Nazir Razak, the Malaysian prime minister’s brother, has been quietly meeting with business leaders in his UK headquarters and in Kuala Lumpur…

Raggie Jessy Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim lashed out at certain leaders from within Selangor’s Pakatan Rakyat for their role in shredding the coalition apart at the seams. In a statement, the former…

Umar Mukhtar So nobody left Pakatan Rakyat and nobody was sacked from Pakatan Rakyat. Just simply there's no more Pakatan Rakyat. Had to be clear as if it was alive and kicking after the…

In the war between Najib and Mahathir, it seems like all the rules have been thrown out the window Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today For a large part of life, I stood at school assemblies…

Systemic and institutional reform – even if the opposition coalition comes into power – cannot be expected so powerful now is the civil service lobby Lim Teck Ghee, The Heat Online The…

Umar Mukhtar With the announcement that PasMa will transform itself from a Pakatan Rakyat NGO into a political party, the creation of Pakatan Rakyat Baru is nearer to being a reality. With the…

All the education in the world comes to nought when you are too arrogant to respect the cultures and beliefs of others. Fa Abdul, Free Malaysia Today Four tourists were arrested in Sabah for…