‘Short sleeves, long pants MB’

Azmin Ali will hit the ground running as Selangor Mentri Besar but his toughest challenge is to match the clean record set by his predecessor. Joceline Tan, The Star THE evening before Azmin…

In response to Kadir Jasin

Iskandar Mohamad Recently, Kadir Jasin penned his thoughts in his blog regarding the Prime Minister of Malaysia. This post is my response to each numbered point to what he shared. Anyone is…

Pakatan Rakyat di ambang senja?

Farouk A Peru, The Malaysian Insider Sudah lama saya teringin menggunakan frasa 'di ambang senja' dalam konteks politik. Semasa zaman remaja, saya membeli buku tulisan Ahmad Lutfi Muhammad yang…

Kenyataan akbar Wee Choo Keong

Semasa pemilihan CEC pada 15hb Disember 2012, pihak urusetia DAP istihar jumlah cawagan yang hadir adalah 865 cawangan. Dan semasa pemilihan semula CEC pada 29hb Sept 2013, pihak urusetia DAP, Ong…

The puzzling new Exco line-up

Is PAS being punished for its alleged recalcitrance during the MB crisis? Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today The 2008 and 2013 formula for Pakatan Rakyat was 4:4:4 based on the 15, 15 and…

Uphill task for new Selangor MB

Mentri Besar Azmin Ali will be presiding over a complicated team of rivals as he struggles to put the Selangor crisis behind him. Joceline Tan IT was evident that most media people were…

Is BN’s fortune rising?

All things remaining constant, a lower turnout should have seen the majority shrink proportionally in the Pengkalan Kubor by-election. Ishmael Lim, FMT No political party should take a…

Appreciating the Chinese resolve

And it would help if the Chinese can practice some humility and not keep saying that they are successful because they are smart and work hard whilst Malays are not because they are lazy and…

The way forward for the PM

Salleh Said Keruak The defeat of PAS in the Pengkalan Kubor by-election yesterday shows that PAS cannot go solo and without PKR and DAP it would not be able to become a political force in…

Calm before the storm?

Lim Mun Fah, Sin Chew Daily Following the swearing-in of Mohamed Azmin Ali, the dust has finally settled on the Selangor MB crisis. But it is not yet time to draw a sigh of relief as the…

Anwar wants Azmin out

The PKR supremo is laying the groundwork for a vote of no confidence. Roslan Bistamam, FMT The talk in social media is that Anwar Ibrahim had planned for Azmin Ali to be appointed the…

The move to oust Azmin has begun

Can you see why they are attacking HRH the Sultan of Selangor? Over the next two months they have to turn the public against the Sultan so that the people will agree that Azmin should be ousted…

The Kajang hangover

Praba Ganesan, Malay Mail Online Two men, a rabbi and a left-handed priest, walked into a bar. They were OK until they realised they were in Selangor, and realised further — almost…

Denouement: The MB saga ends

Through it all, this episode (if one could call it that) revealed to the people a side of coalition politics that is rarely played out in the open: conflict resolution. Fahmi Fadzil, The Star…

Testing times ahead for Azmin

Azman Ujang, The Sun Daily DATUK Seri Anwar Ibrahim's undoing has proven to be a blessing in disguise for Azmin Ali, who on Tuesday became Selangor's new mentri besar in a dramatic fashion.…

My response to Tommy Thomas

Anwar is fortunate that this is 2014 and not 1814. If not by now he would have a keris stuck in his belly. And there are many royalist Malays who would volunteer to do that deed. I suppose we will…