Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily While vindictive politics may or may not be involved, Selangor government's freezing of the Skim Mesra Usia Emas (SMUE) accounts for Bandar Tun Razak parliamentary…

Muslims need to re-evaluate the pilgrimage and ask whether they have met the ideals and objectives of the pilgrimage. The pilgrimage is not about a set of rituals but about your soul being…

Word battles over the meaning of 'jihad' are not just about semantics. Meanings of words have to be contested, to fight the ideas behind them. Farish A. Noor The word "jihad" is once again…

New politics or old politics? Not many people can tell the difference after all that political drama in Selangor.  Joceline Tan SELANGOR Mentri Besar Azmin Ali is apparently on the lookout…

Abdar Rahman Koya, TMI Muslim women’s clothing has been a source of debate among ordinary Muslims and scholars, and like the Sunni-Shiite conflict, it never ends. It is a popular topic among…

K.S. Lee Much press has been given to DAP’s denunciation of the sexist attacks on its women recruits namely Dyana Sofea; Syefura Othman, better known as Rara; and Jamila Rahim, also known as…

Ng Kee Seng, The Ant Daily We sure have a very strange and “funny” Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar. He talks big, insulting the intelligence of Malaysians and…

The current dysfunction within PR is all too obvious as seen in the Pengkalan Kubor wash-out. Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today All about the news portals and cyber-space we read…

The MB should stop attacking Khalid and get on with the job of governing Selangor. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today Azmin Ali will mark his first 100 days as Selangor Menteri Besar this…

Malaysians may forgive him for being a sex blogger but not for being such a childish pest who thinks the country owes him a living. Iskandar Dzulkarnain, Free Malaysia Today Alvin Tan and…

The advocates of a multicultural Malaysia should therefore be comfortable in believing both that “Malaysia belongs to all Malaysians today” and “Malaysia was the lands of Malays and the indigenous…

The best time to cut subsidies is when prices are falling, especially with the fixed price mechanism we use here in Malaysia. Economics Malaysia So, effective yesterday, petrol prices at the…

Malays are not poor. Malays are just less wealthy than the Chinese but far richer than the Malays of 50 or 60 years ago. And if the excuse we go to war in Syria or Iraq is because the Chinese are…

GE14 is just about three years away, and Najib has much to contend with even with a weakened Pakatan. Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today The sun must be shining for Najib and BN with the Umno…

Tindakan Azmin membekukan akaun SMUE bukan sahaja sebagai isyarat beliau mahu menghukum Khalid Ibrahim tetapi seluruh rakyat di Pelabuhan Klang dan Bandar Tun Razak. Adam Abu Bakar, FMT…

(MMO) - The reason why government officials without a sliver of reason worth debating can go on and on about the millions who are supporting them in absentia is because the activists in the…

Yang Razali Kassim, Today Online Watching the tension-filled muktamar, or annual congress, of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) unfold recently in Batu Pahat was like following a burning fuse…

With Azmin in charge of nearly everything that matters, the other nine Excos can just loaf about. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today One thing that I have never understood is what do these…

He is purported to have said, 'Only God, not the Sultan, has absolute powers.' Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today The recent Menteri Besar crisis in Selangor has claimed another casualty apart…

Syed Umar Ariff, NST PKR is working to strap a leash on Azmin Ali barely a week into his job as Selangor menteri besar. Treading on egg shells between governmental duties and his political…

Another DAP leader has stepped forward to defend Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, disagreeing with claims that the Selangor Menteri Besar has been acting unilaterally on a number of key administrative…

While the PR leaders seemed totally embroiled in their political shenanigans, they overlooked the implications of their political actions on the intended function of good governance institutions…

Aspan Alias Anwar dengan penuh ‘politeness’ telah memberitahu kita secara halus yang beliau lah yang berkuasa di Selangor. Anwar telah mengumumkan yang beliau telah meminta atau mengarahkan…

Anwar hanya layak untuk memberi nasihat, bukan arahan, kerana perbuatan demikian adalah satu tindakan yang menjolok mata. Lisa Adam, FMT Belum pun panas kerusi Menteri Besar (MB)…

Although the Act now allows a critique of implementation issues, the charges cut out all discussion. This consigns discussion of critical issues to secret dark cloistered corners.  Gurdial Singh…

Anyway, that is what happened which Anwar, as the then Selangor Economic Adviser, should be very well aware of. And if he is not aware of this then what has he been doing all this while? And if he…

KTemoc Konsiders KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 ― DAP and PKR leaders have admitted that without PAS, Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) hope of capturing Putrajaya will recede further, as the Islamist party holds…

Ahmad Mustapha Hassan, The Ant Daily While most countries are moving forward and try to achieve a well informed, liberal and fully developed nation status, Malaysia can only be said to be…

Pathma Subramanian, Malay Mail Online DAP and PKR leaders have admitted that without PAS, Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) hope of capturing Putrajaya will recede further, as the Islamist party holds the…

What a mess Azmin has got himself into just because Anwar opened his mouth to announce what he instructed Azmin to do. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today Anwar Ibrahim announced recently…