After the Obama Euphoria

Azly Rahman We need to move beyond the Obama episode; “beyond those presidential selfies and we-fies”. US President Barack Obama left Malaysia, and was greeted by protests in the Philippines…

Critical time for Khalid in PKR polls

The PKR election will reach a watershed point when Sabah votes this weekend because the votes in this second biggest state in the party can make or break a candidate. Joceline Tan, The Star…

Norman Fernandez

Lim Mun Fah, Sin Chew Daily On the question whether the Pakatan Rakyat Supreme Council did reach an agreement on the implementation of the hudud law in Kelantan, it appears that all the three…

The GST issue

Salleh Said Keruak Malaysia’s population has just touched 30 million. However, only about 5.6% or 1.7 million of the country’s population pay income tax. This comes to just 14% of the 12…

Horizons of freedom

FMT LETTER: From Dr Dominic Damian, via e-mail The electronic and print media are paralysed with fear. We are not immune to fear of death, losing friends, family, property, earning, poverty…

This is not Islam

Replacing a system that has served us well, with one that has not been proven to work elsewhere is irresponsible. Disguising it in the name of Islam is plain disgusting.  Kamal Amzan, MMO I…

Malaysia is far from going bankrupt

Salleh Said Keruak The opposition leaders are going all over telling the people that Malaysia is going bankrupt. The picture they are painting is very bleak as if the country has only a few…

Hudud – test for the Constitution

There are provisions for the federal legislature to authorise Kelantan to implement its Islamic criminal enactment. Shad Saleem Faruqi, The Star PARTI Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) appears…

Ke mana halatuju pemilihan PKR 2014?

Lisa Adam, FMT Pelbagai ‘kisah’ menarik mewarnai pemilihan parti PKR yang sedang berlangsung di lebih 200 cabang di serata Malaysia. Namun yang paling menarik mungkin apa yang belaku di Lawas…

My views on hudud

Ivanpal Singh Grewal, The Malaysian Insider Malaysia has once again been thrown into a political vortex and the credit this time goes to Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) who have expressed their…

Naughty Tian Chua

KTemoc Konsiders A Malaysian court convicted a prominent opposition lawmaker Thursday of biting a policeman at an illegal protest — a verdict that could cause him to lose his Parliament seat.…

PAS penentu masa depan Pakatan Rakyat?

Apabila isu-isu agama dibangkitkan dalam pilihanraya, ia memberi kesan buruk kepada parti-parti pembangkang. Wan Hamidi Hamid, TMI Sejak penubuhannya pada 1951, PAS tidak pernah putus asa…

Has DAP fallen into MCA’s hudud trap?

MCA is against hudud but they want to be the good guys and not be seen as attacking a Malay religious party. They want DAP to do the dirty job for them and DAP fell for it hook, line and sinker.…

April is the cruelest month

Top PKR leaders are now getting serious about reforms, after about 15 years of not being able to define exactly what kind of form the reforms would take. Jerome Martin, MM It’s been a sad,…

The continued dumbing down of the people

I have lost count of the things our government thinks Malays should be protected from. Erna Mahyuni, MM Everything is a threat to the Malays and Islam, it seems. Malay-speaking Christians.…