Will Umno go the right-wing direction or can Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak continue to steer his party towards the centrist route at the Umno general assembly next week? Joceline Tan TAN Sri…

They might gain some benefit from “going with the flow” but it won’t last. When the country is in crisis, it is the future generations who will pay for the mistakes and greed of the present…

Bluster and rhetoric will not make Malaysia's problems go away. Scott Ng & Amin Khairuddin, FMT As the Umno AGM looms, Malaysia’s non-Malay communities prepare for another round of…

Ahmad Fairuz Othman & Syed Umar Ariff, NST Question: What are some of the sensitive issues likely to be touched by delegates? Answer: Well, this is an assembly of the biggest party that…

When you see someone like you succeeding next door while your society is not, it becomes political. Thomas Friedman, Today Online Ever since the Arab awakening in late 2010, America has…

WH Cheng, The Ant Daily After the last two general elections, both the ruling and opposition coalitions have deviated from their many promises and objectives. They have not been focusing on the…

Hafiz Noor Shams, Malay Mail Online I think Malaysia needs Jokowi. When I write so, I do not mean Malaysia needs Joko Widodo the man per se as our prime minister. Instead, I am thinking about…

They are not regarded just as males who want to dress as females (for fun or to deceive), but something that are innate or in-born in them. If it is in-born, that means they are created this way.…

(MMO) - Why should we worship a particular god when we can easily believe in other things? After all, no proof is required to make one god more authentic than the other.  I am writing…

(TMI) - The essay was about a monkey who had to climb a banana tree to get himself a banana. It had four paragraphs, each paragraph had two sentences and each sentence had around five words. I…

It’s a useful illustration of the circular strategy of the military – perpetuate instability, draw on it to justify dominance, and then refer back to it when that power is challenged. Francis…

When Umno Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin takes his place on the Umno stage next week, it is with the knowledge that he has not disappointed those who gave him such a sweeping victory last year.…

Said a veteran Umno watcher, Muhyiddin’s “departure” is no secret in Umno and “in fact many party members feel this Umno general assembly (November 25-29) will be his last as deputy president”.…

To gauge the success of a system, you have to look at the individuals it produces. Scott Ng, FMT What is the measure of an education? Does it determine the character, the spirit of the child…

Cecilia Jeyanthi Victor, The Ant Daily There seems to be no end in sight to the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex) controversy despite Menteri Besar Azmin Ali’s pledge to look into the matter…

Jimmy Adit, The Ant Daily Sarawak DAP must not wait until next June to ditch PAS. It is not only six to seven months too long, but PAS will still be the PAS it is today, no matter who gets to…

Has no one pointed out to these women that they owe a lot of what they have now to feminism?  Erna Mahyuni, MMO You know our public universities have gone to the dogs when they start…

The Chinese education group, Dong Zong, was once so powerful that it could bring down Chinese politicians and political parties but a string of controversies the last few months has made it the…

Putrajaya’s heavy handed behaviour only raises questions about why SAPA is so ostensibly dangerous. Barisan Nasional minister Tan Sri Dr James Masing had also called for a review of the Malaysia…

It seems that whenever we question anything, either the government or those linked to it does, it is seen as a bad thing. And this comes during a period of a prime minister whose initial speech…

Just how big are these groups, anyway? They claim hundreds of thousands of members. Is this true or are they just blowing hot air out of their ample orifices? Azmi Sharom, The Rakyat Times…

The Malay is an enigma. He claims to know Islam, but when his brethren is threatened, he refuses to speak out. He fears the mob will hound him, even though neither he nor the person he would like…

Zubaidah Abu Bakar, The Rakyat Post PERSATUAN Ummah Sejahtera (PasMa), the pro-Pakatan Rakyat non-governmental organisation, is here to stay. And PAS, whose more moderate thinking members…

Najib would fare better with Anwar as a free man. And Najib, of all people, knows this. Most importantly, so does Zainuddin Maidin, which brings us to the question; why did Zainuddin blackmail…

Among those who study the subject, who use and accept modern scientific techniques and logic, this scientific fact is as valid and true as the fact that the earth is round and revolves around the…

Raggie Jessy  Following is an article I posted a while back. Recently, Mahathir blamed Najib for favouring the Chinese more than the Malays. The question may not, however, be so much of Najib’s…

Raggie Jessy  The following is an adaptated excerpt from a previous article (http://www.malaysia-today.net/the-malaysian-dilemma-part-ii-god-never-played-dice/) Rafizi is the mother of all…

We’ve heard Nik Abduh’s views on sex, the Friday prayers, the women’s Islamic dress code. What are his views on corruption, the GST, the Scorpene scandal and the 1MDB fiasco? Mariam Mokhtar,…

(MMO) - Imagine a Malaysia where not every citizen has the same set of rights in court. With the creation of a Shariah Federal Court in the works, we are firmly moving further in that direction.…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily They say that love is blind and on a honeymoon there are no non-pleasant brides and grooms, for the euphoria of chemical-electrical synapses makes all things good.…