It is hard to imagine Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail losing in Permatang Pauh but Pakatan Rakyat leaders are privately telling people it will be a wafer thin majority of win.
Joceline Tan,…
In East Malaysia, the PKR and DAP alliance have completely cut ties with PAS. In West Malaysia, the same claims are made but thin strands are still attached between them, a relationship even they…
Umar Mukhtar
Irrespective of what minister Hishammuddin claimed with a brave face over Rompin by-elections result, it remained a clear indication that the voters of Rompin are fed-up with the…
It is almost certain that politics in Sabah and Sarawak will follow the West Malaysian model where race and religion are paramount to one’s identity.
James Chin
In recent times, the…
And are you telling me that Najib does not know this? Dr Mahathir already complained about Najib giving in to Singapore. So why would Najib do what he did and say what he said yesterday? Does…
Jason Chin, Malay Mail Online
The relationship that PAS shares with PKR is something more complicated then even figuring out how the Pyramid of Sphinx was built to perfection in ancient times.…
Pengarah Operasi Pusat Penyelidikan PAS, Dr Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki
Bukan sahaja PAS bersendirian di PRK Rompin, tetapi kelompok ‘Anwarinas’ dalam PAS juga seperti memboikot calon PAS, Ustaz Nazri,…
A lady of many colours
Wani Muthiah, The Star
When she was only 16, Tengku Puan Nor Saadah Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Suleiman Shah left the confines of her protected childhood at Istana…
Raghavan Nair, The Rakyat Post
THE 2008 General Election hosted some of the most fiery campaigns in Malaysia.
PKR’s supremo Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim walked into Kampung Buah Pala to speak to…
Umar Mukhtar
Consider these: A Prime Minister whose wife loves Birkin handbags, yet would let his son-in-law pay for his only daughter's lavish wedding. A Prime Minister whose only statement on…
Alright, at the risk of being ridiculed later, I would say Umno will win Rompin with a majority of 15,000 votes and PKR would win Permatang Pauh with a majority of 5,000 (plus-minus 20%).
NO…
The Straits Times, Singapore
Two back-to-back by-elections in Malaysia this week will test the unity of the country's fragile opposition coalition.
The polls are also seen as a test of Prime…
Anyway, Mahathir went on to pick Abdullah as his deputy in 1999, believing that Abdullah was a lone ranger who could be subjugated to do his bidding. So, in a sense, Abdullah was to Mahathir what…
Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily
First and foremost I would like to apologise to PKR and president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for even if I am one of those who admired what she accomplished the…
The question is whether he is acting freely or if he is another “parrot” in the skillful employment of Tun M.
FIRE ANT
Prime Minister Najib Razak is a man under siege. Thanks to former…
While Mahathir says BN will lose the next GE if Najib stays, I personally think BN will win with a bigger majority if Malaysia doesn’t have another opposition party.
Karamjit Gill
The furore…
Salleh Said Keruak
Kedah Menteri Besar Mukhriz Mahathir said there was no way his father would campaign for the opposition in the Permatang Pauh and Rompin by-elections.
No doubt Tun Dr…
Salleh Said Keruak
The ongoing Permatang Pauh by-election campaign reminds me of the Hulu Selangor by-election of 2010. In that by-election, P. Kamalanathan of MIC (Barisan Nasional) faced Zaid…
(Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak faces a test of his popularity this week in two by-elections that come hard on the heels of calls by the country’s former long-time…
Lorrain, however, would not talk. He told me he would never reveal the truth while all those involved are still alive. This ‘I cannot reveal the truth while all those involved are still alive’…
(The Malaysian Insider) - With two days to go before Rompin voters cast their ballots in the by-election, DAP and PKR have appeared to abandon PAS in favour of the fight in Permatang Pauh, leaving…
Khoo Kay Peng, The Ant Daily
PKR’s decision to nominate Dr Wan Azizah as the candidate of Permatang Pauh by-election shows that the party is at its crossroads. There are some serious questions…
What Mahathir really did was plant the seeds of revolt that got the Chinese further estranged from the Malays in the years that came.
Raggie Jessy
It seems to be the law of physics that one…
The dissatisfaction of the people is real, and so is the threat of Umno losing the next GE.
Scott Ng, FMT
‘In front of a 5,000-strong crowd in Kuching, far removed from the thousands…
Is there a consultation process or inter-ministerial meeting held before a new government policy or initiative is introduced?
R. Nadeswaran, The Sun Daily
STATEMENTS by religious leaders are…
A Letter from Jayaseelan, Penang
I myself live in a low-cost flat in River Road, Sungai Pinang. I stay in a 500sq ft unit together with my old parents, wife and two children. Thank God we get…
So I urge the Pakatan Rakyat supporters to not forget the principles of our perjuangan, which is ABU. We need to support Hudud and Najib so that we can be on the opposite side of Umno. Since Umno…
Zurairi AR, Malay Mail Online
A lot of young Malay couples get indoctrinated into their spousal roles the moment they get married.
A popular prayer recited during the Malay solemnisation…
Opalyn Mok & Mayuri Mei Lin, Malay Mail Online
Disillusionment with Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and continued rejection of Barisan Nasional (BN) could see voters undecided voters in the Permatang…