When our language is fluffy, it can be difficult to take effective action, because we don’t exactly define what the problem is. Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser The rise of the far-right and…

It is unbelievable that opposition politicians who had come around to distribute aid to flood victims at a relief centre in Kluang, Johor, were shooed away by the Kluang local authorities. P…

Yes, Malaysia suffers floods. And the floods get worse every year. But is God punishing us for not implementing Hudud by flooding our land or is it because of over-logging and deforestation that…

Salleh Said Keruak In the late 1970s, there was an exodus of Vietnamese ‘boat people’, most who ended up on the East Coast of West Malaysia. The UNHCR immediately set up a refugee camp on…

Alyaa Alhadjri, The Ant Daily What does Kelantan and the Aceh region in Indonesia have in common? On the surface, both Kelantan and Aceh share a similar image of being coastal areas with…

What is clear now is that Putrajaya doesn’t believe the Harmony bills will address the racial and religious tension and disharmony among Malaysians. Jimmy Adit, The Ant Daily Minister in the…

They have done nothing much except simply to exist and maybe just to get paid. And nothing else except blunders in every disaster that we faced.  Nawawi Mohamad, TMI Malaysia has experienced…

Raggie Jessy Months of opposition fuelled vendetta has finally borne fruit. Najib is reeling from heaped derision by sceptics who dressed him down last Wednesday over precedency. Yup. That’s…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily In all likeliness, cabinet member Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, more popularly known by his moniker of KJ, is the current generation's “Anwar” given…

Ian McIntyre, The Ant Daily Pakatan Rakyat may split three ways if the Kelantan PAS-dominated State Legislative Assembly special sitting tables and passes amendments to the Syariah Criminal…

K Kabilan, The Ant Daily It is very perturbing when our politicians link even a natural disaster to God to drive home a message that is favaourable to them. With more than 100,000 people…

Mariam Mokhtar When Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan compared the different attitudes of Chinese and Malay schoolchildren, he decided that lessons in “entrepreneurship” could create more…

Alwyn Lau, New Mandala It is common to hear multi-culturalism being endorsed as a basis for national identity. Given this era of increasing fundamentalism, what could be more welcoming than a…

Farah Harith, The Rakyat Post IT is rather disturbing that we have reached a point where one picture can be translated into so many different interpretations. Safe to say that the old adage…

Hudud has very little to do with religion but everything to do with dictatorial power, absolute control and subjugation of the people. TK Chua, Free Malaysia Today I would like to remind…

Citizen Times Idealistic Malaysians still cannot see how Pakatan Rakayt leaders have an unholy and disunited coalition their forced marriage of convenience – a mockery of the word…

Dear Sir, Thank you for responding to my letter Questions for YTM Raja Petra Kamarudin. I can see that there are some questions from you that need clarification and I'll be very happy if you…

Zan Azlee, TMI It's that time of the year when all the rivers and lakes start overflowing dangerously into where Malaysians live, work and go to school. This has been happening ever since I've…

Yussof Condred My late father had a 2-inch diameter scar, near the elbow of his left upper arm, that tells a quaint story. He came to the Malayan Peninsular in 1936, braving a treacherous…

Kali ini, sejarah berulang lagi. Ini bukti bahawa kita tidak langsung mengambil pelajaran daripada peristiwa sejarah.  Khairul Naim Rafidi “Selama penderitaan datang dari manusia, dia bukan…

Hmm…I wonder what the Muslim MPs from PKR and Barisan Nasional are going to do. Would they help save Pakatan Rakyat by blocking the Hudud bill? Most interesting is it not? THE CORRIDORS OF…

We, the good people (liberals and fundamentalists) share a common agenda.  Yussof Condred  I am a Buddhist. When I studied in the Methodist Primary School, Nibong Tebal, Seberang Prai …

When it comes to the implementation of hudud, you tend to hear absolute silence from Muslims who oppose it. It’s as if they have no answers to the trickery of those in Kelantan who are bent, for…

You also say that the Malays are economically weak because they place too much attention on spiritual development instead of economic development. So, are you saying that to become rich you must…

To me, this is what Christmas is all about. It is about those brave souls, Muslims from Turkey, who stood up to the Germans and insisted that any European with a Turkish passport, even Jews, was a…

A question we get a lot here in the US is “why Kelab UMNO?” One email asked: “For students who seem against the status-quo, kenapa tak tukar parti je?” Shamil Norshidi, President of Kelab UMNO…

2partysystem Dear Sir, I plead with you to provide answers to these questions and publish on your blog, if you are willing, if you are unwilling please at least provide answers to question…

It's easier to garner Chinese support with "sweets", than Malays. Of course, the "sweets" Chinese want are not BRIM alms.  Karam Singah Patul Dear Raja, Good day. After reading your…

The next general election is the final test, the third test after the first two in 2008 and 2013. Umno is now a wounded and cornered animal. But then wounded and cornered animals that are…

The good doctor's ego had been severely bruised by his having to "beg" and his humiliation in Singapore. Andrew Gomez, Free Malaysia Today It was the crooked bridge that never came to be. A…