Although PKR vehemently denies that PAS is working with Umno, Najib’s matching pink outfit with PAS’s Abdul Hadi Awang at the opening of a conference for al-Azhar University alumni definitely…
Khairuddin said he is just personally struggling to get to the truth. That is very commendable. So let us start with him. Help us get to the truth that he is no one’s dog and he is not acting on…
Singapore was convinced that the nationwide blackout was not an accident or bad management on the part of TNB but was intentional -- hence Paka was sabotaged. That was also what the TNB engineers…
“So it was not God who made me a Muslim. It was you, right? It was your decision”
Fa Abdul, Free Malaysia Today
A few years back, my children and I went shopping at Mid Valley Megamall when…
Racist, judgmental, politically divided on every issue with a vengeance, holier-than-thou people who would rather remain ignorant and argumentative than have an open mind for discourse.
Hafidz…
Churches, which have yet to provide disabled-friendly facilities from ramps to toilets, should really be ashamed of themselves for denying a basic right to a community that needs them.
Anthony…
Karamjit Gill, Malay Mail Online
The ongoing tug-of-war between BN and PKR with regards to partnering PAS is not auguring well. First we were made to believe that PAS was the bad one whose…
Najib, on the other hand, is waiting to see what new issues they are going to throw at him. Najib has a golden bullet regarding a scandal that involves both Muhyiddin and the Chinese tycoon, which…
The ERL is a 30-year concession that will end in 2032. Under this 2002 concession agreement, RM5 from the airport tax for each KLIA international passenger has to be paid to ERL whether the…
Salleh Said Keruak
I have told my officers that I am not satisfied with the Internet service in Malaysia. According to the latest State of the Internet (SOTI) report, Malaysians are amongst the…
It is not the RM2.6 billion that these rich Arabs gave Najib that is going to bring the world to its knees. It is the hundreds of billions that they have been giving and are continuing to give to…
Or is it that religion never came from God in the first place and were mere inventions of humankind and that is why religions are a mess because if religion did come from God there would be only…
Actually, Bala was not my responsibility. I did not ask him to go to India. But when he got into financial problems I helped sort it out for him. That was why I was quite upset when he made that…
A person should not suffer bondage and be imprisoned in Islam just because of accident of birth. A person must be allowed whether to believe in God and to choose his or her religion. This is what…
Umar Mukhtar
In Malaysian politics, recycling and re-branding is a common occurrence. The sad thing is they don't really involve the fine-tuning of the parties' stands for our benefit…
Suzzy Khalid, The Heat
The opposition bloc - Pakatan Rakyat in Selangor or Pakatan Harapan in Penang - might seem to be in tatters but one of its party members - DAP - has found its perfect…
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…