Dr. Hsu's forum
Bersih 4.0 entered its second day today. I walked yesterday among the crowd, hot and tired, but the hope of a better governance has kept me going. ( refer to my post yesterday).…
Andy West, Malay Mail Online
One of the great paradoxes of modern society is that those bestowed with the greatest level of public trust tend to be those who most abuse it.
Look at leading…
The Old Man is a player and Malaysians need to play hard ball now to get out of their current mess.
Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today
In these days of instant communication, my closest…
The way the police and the Home Minister are behaving gives the false impression that the country is under threat and that chaos is about to rain on the nation.…
I know that on the one hand they are thrilled by the idea of ordinary Malaysians supporting their cause, but they cannot have their cake and eat it too.
Umar Mukhtar
With the declared…
For Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister beset by controversy over nearly £450 million paid into his personal bank account, the timing of a global anti-corruption conference in Kuala Lumpur…
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi appears to have a six-month timeframe in mind to take over as Prime Minister.
Shane Fuentes, FMT
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has problems in…
For us who have close, personal inter-racial and inter-religious friendships, the greatest fear is always that there comes a day where we have to choose sides.
Nicholas Chan, TMI
This is not…
It is not cool for any political party to hijack the Bersih 4 rally and carelessly add on another demand at the very last minute. Here’s looking at you PKR and PKR Youth. You are not the…
Here we go again!
Coconuts KL
Three years after the mammoth Bersih 3.0 rally, the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) has called for another Bersih rally. Dubbed Bersih 4.0, the…
By the look of things, DAP has gone all out to get members and Chinese to come out for Bersih 4.0 which will be a 34 hours gathering on 29-30th August to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kota…
Rita Jong and Ian McIntyre, The Ant Daily
Apart from giving rise to a new crop of office bearers, leadership tussles in political parties in Malaysia often lead to the formation of new parties as…
Bersih now seems more like a group of chanting, raving sloganeers who've forgotten about the cause for free and fair elections.
Mikha Chan, Free Malaysia Today
Revolution is an ugly, drunken…
It's risky for him to oust Muhyiddin, but neither can he afford to keep him as his deputy in the party.
Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today
The bell has begun to toll for Muhyiddin Yassin. Since…
According to blogger Raja Petra, the PM has a plan that will thwart a no-confidence vote in Parliament
Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today
Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin has lately…
The Third Force
Historical narratives on political conspiracies have always been tainted with acts of subversion by Fifth Columnists. In Malaysia, the Confederates of the Fifth Column engaged…
Special Task Forces - there were 3, the first 2 in March, the latest in July - which one is no more, and which one is still in existence?
Charles Hector
Confronting Malaysia is perspectives…
How to justify someone else’s freedoms except to cast them as being sinful? It doesn’t matter if they are innocent children, they have to be as suppressed as our children are. Only then can there…
Salleh Said Keruak
Malaysians claim they are loyal Malaysians but we seem to have lost the spirit of nationalism.
In sports we seem to have discarded ethnicity in favour of nationalism and…
SeaDemon Says
A friend wrote this to me:
“I disagree with Sanusi Junid that Najib is the person that made UMNO weak. Mahathir is the root cause of UMNO weakening. But he did make UMNO strong…
Greg Lopez, Malay Mail Online
It was 1991.
I was 19. I was having a wonderful time at the legendary Setapak High (a high school in Kuala Lumpur) as an Upper Six student when (Tun) Dr…
Umar Mukhtar
The thing definitive about election rallies is that the attendees are saying "We want you, not him". It celebrates a choice of definitive options. It sets the mind to evaluate a…
Ian McIntyre, The Heat Online
Twenty-eight years ago, a Kelantanese and a Kedahan clashed in a “bruising” battle to lead Umno and Malaysia.
The battle has come to shape what is today defined…
Khoo Kay Peng, Malay Mail Online
The upcoming Bersih 4.0 rally has given me mixed feelings. The first rally had a significant meaning. It was focused and targeted at creating more awareness on…
Joint Action Group for Gender Equality
As the build-up to this weekend’s Bersih 4 rally rises to a crescendo, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) lends its voice to call upon…
Sebastian Loh, Malay Mail Online
Imagine if the year were 2019 and the Prime Minister of Malaysia were PKR’s Azmin Ali, Pakatan having won a historic election the year before. Hundreds of…
Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir s not going to have an easy time in Kedah from now on after what happened at the Alor Setar division AGM and which has revived speculation that his job is on the line.…
Tajuddin Rosli
Over the past few months, I have written numerous articles alleging that Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s main objective is not to remove Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as the Prime…
Najib will then give Sabah and Sarawak what they are asking for and win at least 45 of the 57 seats there, maybe even 48. That will give Barisan Nasional roughly 150 seats with at best 72 going to…
Why the need to announce three Catholic churches as places of refuge?
Christopher Chin, Free Malaysia Today
I read with horror an article published by The Malaysian Insider this afternoon…