My response to Ng Kee Seng

Pakatan Rakyat controls 44 of the 56 seats in the Selangor State Assembly (Kajang included). You need only a simple majority or 29 votes. Hence 44 votes are way in excess of what you need. Just…

Teresa Kok is being hypocritical

FMT LETTER: From Huan Cheng Guan, via e-mail As a MP for Seputeh, Teresa Kok must realise that as an elected leader, she has the responsibility of upholding values and ethics that sow the seeds…

Paying for the sly innuendo

It is unbecoming of an MP to produce a video that is insensitive Narinder Singh, FMT Teresa Kok deserves a ‘slap’, no doubt about it, maybe not physically but definitely on her bloated ego.…

When it is not well researched

But that is just it. That is not an Islamic law or Sharia law. That is a civil law. And while Islamic or Sharia law would only apply to Muslims, civil law applies to everyone, non-Muslims…

Playing the survival game

Is the Kajang by-election really about the 14th general election or is it about the political survival of one man? Joceline Tan, The Star RAFIZI Ramli has had a spectacular couple of years…

Tweeting it out in PKR?

A very recent exchange on the popular social media Twitter between Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s activist Nathaniel Tan and the party’s strategy director Rafizi Ramli had led to the latter challenging…

Is this going to be DAP’s PKFZ?

I still have not decided whether there are any shenanigans involved in the multi-billion Ringgit Penang Undersea Tunnel project being implemented by the Penang State Government. However, the news…

No sex please…. We are PKR

Another Brick in the Wall "No Sex Please ... We are British" was a 1970s play about a Bank Manager with a young wife who send for a mail order of Scandanivanian glassware. However, he ended…

Resignation letter

Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew The CNY holidays were over and people started to get back to work. So did the by-election war in Kajang. With the dates announced, the flame of war was officially…

The Kajang move: A political solution?

That is what politics is about. And the ability (or lack thereof) to do so will make or break Anwar, as the man seeks to build a strong case to take over Putrajaya.  Nicholas Chan When…

Let the Malaysians eat cake?

However, there is a growing trust deficit with the administration and a gap in communicating government policies to the people. The necessity for hard decisions has not been explained fully or…

No need to apologise

Anwar then summoned Azmin who admitted that he had, in fact, received the ‘election contribution’, which he did not declare not because he wanted to sailang the money but because it was illegal…

Beritahu Kami, Apa Sebenarnya?

Empire Strikes Back Datuk Seri Panglima Salleh Said Keruak Timbalan Ketua Umno Sabah Langkah mengosongkan kerusi DUN Kajang supaya pilihan raya boleh diadakan telah mencetuskan perdebatan…

An Open Letter to Anwar Ibrahim

FMT LETTER: From A Kajang voter, via e-mail I have followed the Kajang Saga, and your part in it, with a heavy dose of mixed feelings. You have consistently made the point that your move is…

So you think you know democracy

And that, Jacqueline Ann Surin, is my response to your lament regarding whether Malaysia is still a democratic country if Christians are not allowed to use the Allah word (not that I think…

Malaysia’s Anwar Takes a New Dare

Ousting a popular chief minister in his own party risks trouble but repositions him nationally That has been a source of frustration for the DAP and PKR who want contracts where they can, all…