Riddles and lies – except the truth!

P. Ramakrishnan Most Umno politicians speak in riddles. They are so confusing and make little or no sense at all when they speak. Take the example of Islam and Malays, for instance – their…

Protect the public institutions

There is no surer way to destroy people’s faith in democracy by making it seem as if no public institution is safe, that everything must conform to the wills of the high and mighty. Karim…

In politics, it’s a fund fair

The higher the donation, the fewer the donors, the more beholden the political party would be to that said donor. Emmanuel Joseph, The Malaysian Insider Political parties exist to contest…

Why I Will Never Support DAP

YES. You got that right. My name is Jason Chin and I am of Chinese descent. Yet, I openly declare that I will never support nor cast a vote for the Democratic Action Party (DAP). Let me also…

Tony Pua’s Monkey Business

Media statement by Arul Kanda, 1MDB President and Group Executive Director We refer to a press statement today by YB Tony Pua, further to his “chicken challenge” issued yesterday. We note that…

The RPK and the Banker

It must have been a brave decision to engage the services of Malaysia's foremost political blogger, something that required an unorthodox person to execute, but right now RPK is the biggest online…

The Plot (among other plots)

KTemoc Konsiders Recall my mentioning that Mahathir had in no uncertain terms spurned Lim KS politically amorous wooing of him to get rid of the current PM? Then I had said that Mahathir (or…

DAP can now own Selangor

DAP will field at least five Malay candidates amongst those 25, the constitutional law expert cum university lecturer being one of those five. DAP can then choose three names from those five and…

What the fook is TRUE Islam?

GHB says that PAS is not promoting true Islam. I suppose that means GHB is. Well, then maybe GHB can tell us what TRUE Islam is and in what way does this differ from the Islam that PAS is…

The Torture of Raja Petra Kamarudin

Perhaps CBNGO knows something that RPK knows but is too afraid that the information may be leaked to media and hence wants to bury RPK along with ‘Plan X’? Perhaps CBNGO is afraid that RPK may…

Tai Chi Chuan

So Zeti "wrote and submitted reports" to who? The Minister of Finance? To the Prime Minister? What did the Minister of Finance do over the two years of all this reporting? Surely Zeti did not…

Yes, let us change the government

So, yes, Malaysia needs change. But it must be more than just a change of prime minister or a change of coalition. In the meantime, until someone can convince me that they can offer change for the…

The drop of the Ringgit

Salleh Said Keruak China has dropped the value of the Yuan in a second day in a row. Economists have said that there is both good and bad in that happening but overall China is going to benefit…