Azmin Ali’s Madman Theory

Team AI is closing in on Azmin Ali and the Langkah Kajang 2.0 is about to checkmate him. If Rafizi’s corruption allegation fails to stick, they are going to raise the allegation of Azmin’s affair…

Reality bites in by-elections

For the past few years, it appeared like DAP had emerged as the party that could put Umno in its place. What DAP failed to appreciate was that they were able to do that partly due to the back-up…

Dr M shows up in Sungai Besar

Former premier wants the by-elections to be a referendum on the Prime Minister but he did not look pleased when asked what if Umno wins both seats on June 18. Joceline Tan, The Star IT was…

Wooing the Malay heartland vote

Joceline Tan, The Star AMANAH president Mohamad Sabu finally rolled into town yesterday. The Pakatan Harapan campaign team had wondered where he had gone to because he is, after all, the…

Second phase of Kajang Move?

Salleh Buang, NST Is history repeating itself in Selangor? Are we witnessing the beginning of the second phase of Langkah Kajang (Kajang Move)? In 2014, a political manoeuvre known as…

Swayed by ‘Hudud’, we got shot by NSC

How many of us realised that the National Security Council (NSC) Bill 2015 was sinisterly being etched as law - paddling us on our behinds - as we vented and raved about the hudud issue - which…

Hudud and Huckle

Malaysians seem to be emotional thinkers. One day we condemn harsh punishments and the next day we say we desire them. Saleh Mohammed, Free Malaysia Today The reactions of Malaysians to…

Enhancing syariah courts’ powers

Shad Saleem Faruqi, The Star UNDER the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965, the sentencing power of the syariah courts is limited to RM5,000 fine, six lashes and three years’ jail.…

Tread with caution on hudud

When laws made by man in the name of religion are once part of the law books, any attempt to amend or repeal them becomes difficult if not impossible, as such an attempt is considered an affront…