Happy Chinese New Year

Salleh Said Keruak While Malays say that it is the duty of the non-Malays to understand and show sensitivity to Malay customs, culture, traditions and taboos, it is also the duty of Malays to…

End of Mahathir era

Sin Chew Daily Mukhriz Mahathir became the 11th mentri besar of Kedah after the 2013 general elections. Unfortunately he now has to bow out under pressure from his betraying colleagues. His…

Why do Malays do things for money?

Better still if the Malays can be like the Buddhist monks who own nothing except the clothes on their back and go begging house-to-house with a bowl to be able to eat one meal a day. And that is…

Dr Mahathir needs to get real

Salleh Said Keruak Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said, “There was a time not so very long ago when Malaysia was admired for successfully raising itself from an impoverished third world country into a…

The Malaysian defence mechanism

"After five minutes of your birth, they’ll decide your name, nationality, religion, and cult... And you’ll spend your life fighting and stupidly defending things you didn’t choose." Tham Jia…

The Islamic State (IS) and Malaysia

The Royal Malaysian Police says the Islamic State (IS) terror organisation is planning an imminent attack on Malaysia. According to the head of the Special Branch Counter-Terrorism Division,…

Najib did a Sun Tzu on Mahathir

Killing two birds with one stone is classic. Killing five birds with one stone is epic. And Najib did the most epic thing, which even Lim Kit Siang had to admit that the score is now ten-zero in…

The deal MACC made with DAP

So now MACC, DAP and the Bar Council are allies. They work very closely together with only one objective in mind -- to bring down the Umno-led Barisan Nasional government and replace it with a…

The journey ends for Mukhriz

Mukhriz’s argument that he would not step down because he has the people’s support does not really hold water. If that was the case, PKR’s Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim would still be Selangor mentri…

Najib, Malaysia’s Teflon PM

The truth is the only people who can get rid of Najib are the Umno “warlords”, the Umno divisional chiefs, members of Umno Supreme Council and elected representatives. There are fewer than 200…

5 lessons from the Kedah move

The Malaysian Insider Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir is no longer Kedah menteri besar and all it took was two weeks for the political putsch to succeed, far quicker than it took PKR to remove Tan…

The John Soh saga, Part 1

If it had taken so long and yet there’s admittedly insufficient evidence to charge, could it plausibly be the other party is not in the wrong, however circumstantially it may appear the party is?…

Is the Attorney General corrupt?

And unless the MACC comes out to confirm that Apandi is not a crook then we must assume he is a crook just like we assume that Gani is a crook since the MACC never came out to confirm he is not a…

When Daim Talks Cock

SeaDemon Says I found this in a WhatsApp group I reluctantly subscribes to (a friend added me into the group thinking I have all the time to look and reply to messages). It is an old message…

Would you trust Rela to do the IS job?

What however is most worrying is the high-handed manner which has become synonymous with Rela. From molestation to violence, Rela is guilty of it all. Jeswan Kaur, Berita Daily Rela, or the…