Goh Ban Lee, The Sun Daily
AS a general rule, it is the responsibility of the government to build roads so that people can get from one place to another conveniently and comfortably. As…
Jennifer Gomez, The Malaysian Insider
DAP's overconfidence in keeping Teluk Intan, and not voters’ disillusionment with Pakatan Rakyat (PR), was the cause behind the loss of the seat, say…
Kim Quek, The Malaysian Insider
I refer to Dr Ong Kian Ming’s review of the Teluk Intan by-election, published in Malaysiakini under title “In Dyana’s loss, Pakatan must look hard at itself”.…
This is exactly the way DAP leaders speak about Umno leaders. But when it comes out of the mouth of a young Malay woman, it can sound very wrong.
Joceline Tan, The Star
DATUK Seri Mah Siew…
I thought to myself that there are actually people who are not selfish for once. They know they were taking a big risk but yet they still did it because they knew it was a right move.
The…
Zaid Ibrahim
It must be painful for you to have lost the Teluk Intan by-election by a narrow margin, when you should have won comfortably. You have been personally abused and maligned, and…
So folks, in brief the country is screwed. Between the clueless gomen and the freaking opposition we are royally screwed.
There is an alternative. There is always hope. We need some guts, some…
Of late, several statements have been made in the Press by quite a few PR politicians regarding the proposed construction of Kidex highway, an elevated tolled skyway cutting through Petaling Jaya…
Sheridan Mahavera, The Malaysian Insider
Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud did not win the Teluk Intan by-election last night but she still followed in the footsteps of her party’s elders while at the same…
(AFP) - Feeling “surrounded” by ethnic minorities, retired factory worker Peter Harvey voted for Britain’s anti-immigration UK Independence Party (UKIP) in last month’s European and local polls…
Azly Rahman
What is promised to our youth in this by-election that is pitching the old versus the young? What do we need to see radically changed in our society? Here are my thoughts,…
Ooi Kee Beng
WHAT seems to have happened in Malaysian politics since 2008 is that we have a voter population that is divided right down the middle, and given the nature of the game, this state…
Whatever the outcome in Teluk Intan, the Islamist party has proven that it is a sincere partner in Pakatan
Selena Tay, Free Malaysia Today
Today is the moment of truth for Teluk Intan. This…
Leave the politics, Prime Minister and Home Minister, leave the politics. Get the police back on their feet – they are capable of much more and they can do much more. And they will do much more if…
It is left to be seen after polling day tomorrow whether such campaign tactics could still work towards maintaining BN's hold on the rural vote banks.
Sonia Ramachandran and Alyaa Alhadjri, …
If Article 153 allows for an all-Malay school then can we also have an all-Malay bus at subsidised rates where non-Malays are not allowed to ride in these buses (meaning we now introduce a bussing…
The Malaysian Insider
It is too easy. Naive even to believe that Datuk Seri Hasan Malek woke up one day and decided that he had to help Malaysia's most famous carpet dealer get the deal of his…
Or: How I flew 23,000 miles to drive a diesel station wagon in soul-crushing traffic, sleep in a hotel with bloodstains on the headboard, and lose a race to a 1.5-liter hatchback mostly because I…
Once upon a midnight dreary, a cute pinky-pie pig was taking a walk along a beautiful river that flowed through a beautiful tropical rain forest.
Zan Azlee, TMI
It was a nice night. Crickets…
Have you ever looked at a magnified image of your skin or hair? Do you remember it as a horror moment or as a wow moment?
Rama Ramanathan
Have you ever looked at a magnified image of your…
Aspan Alias
Isu hudud nampaknya sudah mula reda dan PAS pun sudah kurang bercakap tentang hudud kebelakangan ini. Mungkin kerana pilihanraya Teluk Intan yang menyebabkan PAS sudah kurang bercakap…
KTemoc Konsiders
HEALTH WARNING: Readers who may suffer medically from kaytee's wakakaka-ing are advised not to read this post as there's mucho wakakaka's, wakakaka!
The Star Online - PKR…
In short, what the Chinese keep telling the Malays is that without Umno and the many government policies that allow special treatment for the incapable and stupid Malays, all the useless and…
Eileen Ng, The Malaysian Insider
Property and carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishan first gained infamy after being linked to the 2006 murder scandal of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu.…
In this satirical piece, the writer nails home some home truths in a humourous way
Iskandar Dzulkarnain, Free Malaysia Today
The antics of Umno Youth who seemed to act like organised thugs…
Umno Baru continues to send a dangerous message, that the party and violence are inseparable
Jeswan Kaur, Free Malaysia Today
Brute force and Umno Baru Youth go hand in hand. From the days…
If the Constitution's meaning can be erased or rewritten, and the framers' intentions ignored, it ceases to be a constitution and would instead become a concoction of political expedients that…
The excessive pre-emptive action in trying to stop the private members’ bills on hudud from going for its first reading in Parliament shows how intolerant some people are towards Islam, says …
If Parliament enacts a hudud law, it would represent a monumental breach of faith in multi-ethnic, multi-religious Malaysia, asserts Tommy Thomas.
Tommy Thomas, Aliran
The hudud debate has…