With the advent of urbanisation, both physical and mental, urban Malays like me, are constantly struggling to fend off those who would rob us of our identity while creating our own.  Mikhail…

Looi Sue-Chern, The Malaysian Insider PKR has been "controlled" by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's family since 1998 and it is not something "strange", party vice-president Tan Sri Abdul Khalid…

Salleh Said Keruak Of late we have been reading a lot of comments regarding the status of Sabah and Sarawak within the Federation of Malaysia, in particular in relation to the 5% oil royalty.…

41 years ago today, on 14th April 1973, Marina and I were married. Marina was 18 and I was 22 and we had been ‘going steady’ for four years since she was 14 and I was 18. NO HOLDS BARRED…

FMT LETTER: From Huan Cheng Guan, via e-mail Since the crossover that never materialised in Sept 16, 2008, Anwar Ibrahim has proven time and again that his claims are highly dubious and his…

The 1963 Malaysia Agreement is void ab initio; can the 1965 Singapore Separation Agreement further invalidate something that is clearly invalid in the first instance Vidal Yudin Weil, FMT…

So let us hate each other if we cannot agree on a common ideology. And let us demonstrate this hate by cursing, disparaging or vilifying each other so that there is no doubt left in our minds that…

Salleh Said Keruak SETELAH lama sepi, tiba-tiba isu hukuman hudud muncul semula. Saya terbaca dalam akhbar, Pas dikatakan serius mahu melaksanakannya di Kelantan. Hati saya berbisik dan…

The Islamist party must marshal on with its hudud agenda and not capitulate to any Chinese based organisation Narinder Singh, Free Malaysia Today The PAS-led Kelantan government is bent on…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily PKR has proudly declared all too often that it is pushing for a more transparent and accountable national governance. However, when it comes to its own internal…

Justin Ong, The Malay Mail Online On Wednesday, S. Deepa’s joy of winning custody of her two children from estranged husband Izwan Abdullah, a Muslim convert, just days earlier turned to terror…

Zurairi AR, The Malay Mail Online If our founding fathers were still alive, they would be mortified with how Islam — which they anointed as the religion of the federation — is being used as a…

And from that day I became a pariah in the eyes of the Pakatan Rakyat supporters. The issue they raise is that I had ‘turned away’ from Pakatan Rakyat. I think it is more like Pakatan Rakyat that…

FMT LETTER: From Syed Izzaddin Jaafar, via e-mail The sleepy kampung of Memali in Baling, Kedah entered into the public consciousness all bloody and frayed 29 years ago. Fourteen men, deviants…

The sale of more than 400ha to a private concern looks like it involves a sweetheart deal to benefit MB Khalid CT Ali, Free Malaysia Today For the past three decades, with Umno consolidating…

The latest court order is needed to uphold the situation but the IGP and police force washed their hands. Saravanan We are shocked to see the reaction of the IGP who is not upholding the…

Considering the almost spiritual hold that Anwar has on PKR, whichever of the three dreams captures the minds of PKR members and takes control, it is still the dream of the de facto leader that…

The postponement of the sending off ceremony of the pandas can been viewed in diplomatic fraternity as a "snub". Mohsin Abdullah, fz.com WHEN Chinese national Gao Huayun was kidnapped in…

Azly Rahman A good philosophical movie ‘Noah’ is; classic arguments between Fate and Free Will, juxtaposed with the Epic of Gilgamesh I am currently discussing. Now I know how Noah looks like.…

Norman Fernandez Lim Kit Siang today said that DAP is prepared to give a kindergarten course in politics to MCA President Liow Tiong Lai and his deputy Wee Ka Siong, who have riled up DAP by asking…

Oh, by the way, the Tunku died almost penniless and the government actually sued him for unpaid taxes, which would have made him the first bankrupt Prime Minister in Malaysian history. You see,…

We could do with some of our politicians emulating the political beliefs of the late Tony Benn, who was a strong advocate of ‘nationalisation’. Zaid Ibrahim, The Star ANTHONY Wedgwood Benn,…

Kee Thuan Chye So stupid! Think can bluff the people ah? The other day I read the Gahmen said it gave a contract to Konsortium Prohawk Sdn Bhd to build and maintain the Kuala Lumpur Women and…

Tunku Abidin Muhriz, The Malay Mail Online The prime minister’s comments supporting economic liberalisation in Asean at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ National Colloquium on Malaysia’s…

Dina Zaman, The Malay Mail Online The recent passing of activist Irene Fernandez was greeted with great sadness not just by activists but also the communities she worked with. “She did good,”…

Rashvinjeet S. Bedi, The Star Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail could not resist but deliver an off-the-cuff “history lesson” during a recent event to announce his electoral pact with Rafizi…

Salleh Said Keruak BARU-BARU ini, sementara menunggu penerbangan ke Kuala Lumpur di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu (KKIA),  saya terjumpa YAB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dan YB Nurul…

I forecast that by 2029 both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat would no longer exist. Both would have imploded or disintegrated by then. The Constitutional Monarchy would still exist but it…

Praba Ganesan, The Malay Mail Online “So are you trying to hurt your old party?” The quick lesson here is, if you are being recorded for a radio show, not to allow an old friend to be the…

The roots of extremism today, however, can be traced to ideas that began to appear in the eighteenth century in Arabia. The founder of Wahhabism, a particular orientation within Salafism, Muhammad…