Pilihanraya lambat lagi, pemilihan UMNO pun lambat lagi, kalau Tun ceramah hari-hari pun DS Najib tak akan letak jawatan. Lebih baik Tun ambil berat masalah Proton yang sedang nazak, lebih nazak…
As far as I can see, the measures that Jakim have taken are punitive in nature. It has a well-established record of issuing threats, declarations or fatwas that make Muslims fear many things…
Will spurning the ruling coalition freeze them out of power forever?
John Berthelsen, Asia Sentinel
In the last days of August, Bersih, or Clean, the coalition for free and fair elections,…
Nicole Tan Lee Koon
Here is a man who stood his ground and fought for justice despite knowing the consequences for doing so.
Dato Hishamudin retired as a Court of Appeal judge recently. He…
All this while the impression being created is that Dr Mahathir the puppet-master is in control and is the main man behind the move to oust Najib. Actually Dr Mahathir is just being used and the…
Malaysian Digest
The closure of the UMNO General Assembly 2015 less than a week ago witnessed an unexpected triumph for UMNO President and Malaysia’s prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.…
Why hasn’t anyone offered me any money yet? I am of retirement age. I don’t mind a nice pile of cash. I control Dr Mahathir, Muhyiddin plus the billionaire tycoons. That should be worth something.…
Malaysian Muslims find IS’s ideology easy to accept, having grown up with a state-sanctioned view of intolerance towards non-Malay Muslims.
James Chin, Brookings
Two weeks ago, an…
Dennis Ignatius
Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, hounded by scandal and facing open rebellion within his ranks, made an impassioned plea at his party’s general assembly last week for unity and…
The opposition spent the whole year harping on an issue, and they failed to do anything positive from their end. In summary of their achievements in 2015, they can only say they exposed this and…
If the treasury is well loaded, distributing money to the people will not have invited this much grumble, but given the government’s 19th consecutive year of fiscal deficits, such unchecked…
Umar Mukhtar
The UMNO general assembly is now over. Prime Minister Najib Razak now has some breathing space courtesy of the UMNO division chiefs, the UMNO Supreme Council, and the Barisan…
LSS Report
After 5 days of silence, Chedet has finally posted his criticism of the UMNO General Assembly speech by Najib.
By and large there was really nothing new in this posting save from…
And that is why religion is so successful. People are prepared to accept ‘the truth’ based on myth and folklore. And if Dr Mahathir can successfully spin the myth that Najib stole 1MBD’s money and…
The speech focused a lot on party loyalty and disputes and the appeal for support for leadership. But the rakyat are concerned with insidious inflation.
Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam
UMNO…
If those delegates are so blinded by the bright lights that they cannot see the disappointment and helplessness of the Malays out on the street as they grapple with the rising cost of living, then…
Now that the cat is out of the bag on the enormous sum available for UMNO's president to disburse, he can expect a lot more hands holding out for even larger sums of monies for services rendered…
Another Brick in the Wall
Malay is so embracing that any Muslim that adopts the Malay and Islamic culture and way of life or the minimum of adopting an Arab name is considered Malay.
UMNO…
Johari Yap, Sinar Harian
PERKHAWINAN merupakan sunnah Rasulullah SAW dan digalakkan di dalam Islam untuk memperoleh anak atau keturunan serta menjaga diri daripada melakukan perkara haram…
Reme Ahmad, Asia One
Call it the buzz that comes with power. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was mobbed by people every time he walked the corridors outside the meeting halls…
Thomas Fann, The Malaysian Insider
It is that season of the year again when Umno is having its annual general assembly and we hear the usual racial rhetorics that is to be expected of a…
Justo says that the pen drive and hard drive were handed to the Defendants based on the agreement that they would pay him US$2 million. The Defendants, however, failed to pay him the US2 million…
Shazwan Mustafa Kamal, Malay Mail Online
Unlike previous years, the 2015 Umno general assembly took place amid uncertainty and anxiety among the Malay nationalist party's grassroots and…
Umar Mukhtar
Is it possible that most Malays who did not vote for UMNO did not do so not because of their protest against UMNO for being a moderate Islamic party but because it is a party…
Tajuddin Rosli
Our beloved country Malaysia is plagued with so many problems in recent times. The problems range from alleged corruption involving enormous amount of money to the dress code at…
LSS Report
Perhaps disappointed that the UMNO Assembly did not proceed as per their plans and that PM Najib came out the clear winner, it looks like Clare Brown has gotten really desperate and…
Basically Kadir admits that Najib won the day and that his detractors were sent home in disgrace, while his biggest detractor of all conceded defeat by not turning up for the closing of the…
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s control over Umno was never in doubt. He has emerged even stronger after the Umno general assembly and has offered an olive branch to his estranged deputy.
Joceline…
Originally, the National Car Project was a form of protectionism for the national car industry. After more than 30 years since its inception, it has now become a burden to the rakyat, by eating…