Staying alive in Kelantan

PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang is on the mend following heart surgery, and he is expected to be back in action in two months but his party is said to be struggling to hold on to Kelantan.…

Polls likely next year?

Too many events are on the cards this year, especially from now on, with the SEA Games and Budget just round the corner. Wong Chun Wai, The Star SIMILAR to how it is for other journalists, I…

No basis for ban on G25 book

By Ramon Navaratnam I believe most moderate Malaysians are depressed and dismayed and even shocked, that the home ministry has thought it fit to ban the G25 book entitled “Breaking the Silence:…

Najib and the politics of survival

Other politicians have fallen for less – how has Najib managed to survive? By Isabel Yeo, edited by Anne Hwarng, ASEAN today In the last four years, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak has…

A quibble over any Basha or Merican

How special is a Bumiputera in a Malaysia with 80 plus per cent falling inside that category? Praba Ganesan, The Malay Mail Online Shahul Hameed picked me up at the intersection of Changkat…

Why I hate to walk

June HL Wong, The Star HAVE you heard? We’re the third laziest people on the planet. That was the conclusion from a massive new study of 717,527 people in 111 countries by Stanford University.…

Desperate for votes

We can see from here that Umno is indeed desperate for votes at this stage, and would not worry about any far-flung effects that may arise from this impromptu announcement, including accentuated…

Many Malaysians Are Still Monkeys

SeaDemon Says Back in the 1970s and at least until the 1980s people in Europe thought that Malaysians live on trees.  That statement still holds true for the many whom have yet to evolve from…