Even as we need the incompetent to step down, we need the competent to step up. Braindrop, The Rakyat Times In my 20 years of breathing, I've only known one person who wanted to grow up to…

The national service programme (PLKN) is nothing short of an absolute failure. Muhammad Fridaus Bin Hafiz It can be regarded as a failure of the highest proportion. From trainee deaths to…

Adenan will not pick lesser candidates; he will pick the best for BN even if the best may not be the choice of the urban voters. Jimmy Adit, The Ant Daily I draw two conclusions from Chief…

PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang seldom attends Pakatan Rakyat council meetings. Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng says Hadi must make it a point to attend PR council meetings and not…

Salleh Said Keruak Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has asked the entire Umno Selangor leadership to step down so that Umno Selangor can be revamped and to make way for new faces to take over the…

The problem with democracy and an elected representative system is the people do not vote on these laws. The elected representatives do. And there is no guarantee that the elected representatives…

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar The fatwa issued by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS) and gazetted on 31 July 2014 declaring any person or group “professing liberalism or religious pluralism”…

Have you thought about how Malaysia’s Election Commission compares with its counterparts in Bhutan, Bangladesh and India? And about how it compares with two Malaysian NGO’s who are working on…

Britain is changing, becoming more multicultural and secular. Is religion changing too? Throughout November, The Huffington Post UK is running its Beyond Belief series, profiling remarkable…

Outside the country, the government has sought to cultivate an image of a modern, moderate Islamic state, where 60 percent of the population is Muslim, and minorities live harmoniously. Thomas…

If the Prophet and the various Caliphs of the Islamic golden age were alive today, it is in fact possible that they would all fall victim to this fatwa and be accused of being deviationist based…

Now that Sri Ram is Anwar Ibrahim’s lead counsel, the same critics of the system that sent Lim to jail are saying that it is not the judge’s fault but the fault of the law. Roslan Bistamam, FMT…

In truth, all three are politically symbiotic in that the appeal of each party is enhanced and weaknesses are shored up by the others. Scott Ng, FMT For PKR and Pakatan Rakyat, Sodomy 2 is a…

Have Chinese primary school boards of directors suffered from persecutory delusions, causing them to directly think of some agendas hiding behind the scene or mysterious motives whenever they…

Behind closed doors, some Selangor Umno members are convinced that the current 12 BN seats in the 56-member Selangor Legislative Assembly, which are all represented by Umno, could be reduced to…

No court on earth can come close to unravelling the truth. But the court of public opinion doesn't seem to care. Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today While the Federal Court deliberates on the…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily Despite exhortations of being able to solve Selangor's woes he claimed was caused by the inadequacy or intentional sabotage of his predecessor, newly crowned MB…

A practising lawyer, Malay Mail Online This is a reply to an article written by Faidhur Rahman Abdul Hadi (FRAH) titled “Likewise on the Sedition Act, Bar Council” that was published on the…

Dengan perancangan yang bijak dan teratur mampu melayakkannya menduduki kerusi Menteri Besar Selangor, jika direncanakan sebaik mungkin mampu melonjakkan Azmin untuk menduduki kerusi Presiden PKR.…

Ramai murid SJKC dan SJKT memiliki penguasaan Bahasa Malaysia lebih baik berbanding “penutur asli bahasa Melayu” di SK. Uthaya Sankar SB, Malay Mail Online Semasa forum bertajuk “Perlukah…

Today, the Malaysian rakyat have three masters. Not one, but three – Umno-Baru, the sultans and the ulamas.  Mariam Mokhtar, The Ant Daily When the ulamas read about the overwhelming…

Karen Arukesamy, The Sun Daily If all goes according to schedule, the Federal Court may deliver its judgment on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy appeal on Tuesday or Wednesday. Tan Sri…

Salleh Said Keruak Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat are both suffering from the same ailment. The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing and the top is not moving in tandem…

Nationalism is forbidden in Islam and Muslims will cite the last sermon of the Prophet to support this argument. But Muslims celebrate Merdeka Day and Malaysia Day. In fact, we even declare those…

I take it you now understand what I meant many months ago when I said that democracy is not perfect and is merely the tyranny of the majority. And we are about to see why I said that. But then if…

Malaysia needs to have a serious conversation with itself, and soon. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Another day, another controversy for the headlines. That seems like the order of the day to…

The PAS plan to implement hudud law in Kelantan is going full steam ahead despite opposition from its political partners and critics outside the state. Joceline Tan, The Star IT has been…

Aziz Bari, The Ant Daily It so happened that except for Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng all others who raised issue with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s surprise decision to have retired Federal Court judge…

Raggie Jessy A courtroom is a crucible. In it, we burn away all irrelevancies, until we are left with a purer product, one we could hold to be a truth for all time or until such a time, when…

GURMEET KAUR & CECILIA KOK, THE STAR JYNWEL Capital may not ring a bell, but the name Low Teik Jho, aka Jho Low, sure does. The 32-year-old high-flying businessman needs little…