PRK Kajang dan “Cult Politics”

A Kadir Jasin MUTAKHIR - PAKATAN Rakyat, melalui Parti Keadilan Rakyat, mengekalkan kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri  Kajang apabila Presiden PKR, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, mengalahkan calon…

Malaysia Agreement: One-way street

The partnership and politics that helped in the formation of the country needs to be reappraised after several wrong turns   The Borneo Insider KUCHING: James Masing is among many in Sarawak…

A different paradigm

Malik Imtiaz Sarwar I have been finding writing my monthly opinion piece an increasingly challenging task over the last year. It is not for a lack of material; this country is a veritable…

Where art thou, Najib?

Ex-Convent Girl In our 56 years since independence we have seen some pretty interesting characters presiding over our nation as Prime Minister. The most notorious must surely be Dr Mahathir…

Anwar, how do you sleep at night?

Ex-Convent Girl So Pakatan supporters are once again crying foul over the recent guilty verdict that will put you behind bars. So they slam the judiciary (once again!) for corrupt practices.…

The Kajang farce

Hafiz Noor Shams, The Malay Mail I am not particularly warm to the Kajang move but it had its significance. I write in the past tense because Anwar Ibrahim is not in the equation anymore after…

The race against race

Mohsin Abdullah, Fz.com SO, TAN SRI Joseph Kurup did not use the word “race” when campaigning for BN in Kajang a few days ago as reported by Malaysiakini. According to Malaysiakini, the…

Day of reckoning for Kajang folk

The political drama over this Sunday’s by-election is about to come to the moment of truth as Kajang voters prepare to elect their new wakil rakyat. Joceline Tan, The Star DATUK…

Selangor’s three woes

Problems should be ironed out immediately by the Pakatan Rakyat state government in Selangor if they want to continue governing. Otherwise, who knows what will happen in GE14? Selena Tay, FMT…

Memang dasar Anwar penipu

Empire Strikes Back Bohong, bohong, bohong, pusingan-U. Ini senario biasa bila bercakap mengenai Ketua Pembangkang di Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim. Bila kerajaan yang kena hentam dengan media asing…

Losing the perception game

Salleh Said Keruak Politics is a game of perception and since the 1980s Malaysia has been a victim of bad publicity. For 30 years Malaysia and the Barisan Nasional-led Malaysian government has…

Stop talking in riddles

I am so clear that it can sometimes hurt. If I think that religion is nonsense I will say that religion is nonsense. And if I want you to shove your so-called holy book up your you know where I…

Malaysia bashing is on overdrive!

KijangMas Perkasa The Western Media, including CNN, BBC, ABC, CBS and NBC, have been broadcasting again and again, almost in loop tape fashion, the near riot in the MH370 media briefing room…

It has politics written all over it

Lim Mun Fah, Sin Chew Daily Almost a hundred vessels and aircraft from 26 nations launched the largest ever SAR mission for a missing plane in human history, encompassing millions of square…

What change?

And this is why I must whack both the government and the opposition because both sides are equally disrespectful about civil liberties. I don’t care who gets to form the government. That is not my…

MH370′s Spirit Doctor

Animism is alive and well in Southeast Asia Murray Hunter, Asia Sentinel  The visit of 'Raja Bomoh Sedunia' to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) last week to assist in the search for…

Rumour-mongers and the social media

Khaw Veon Szu, fz.com MORE than 100 years ago, American author Mark Twain claimed: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” If Mark Twain were…

Media grasping at straws

June H.L. Wong, The Star WHEN a French journalist raises questions about family ties between the Prime Minister and his Defence and Acting Transport Minister, you know the foreign media is…