“We Malays are afraid, if we vote for the opposition, the Chinese will take over and the Malays will be finished” Sheriden Mahavera and Desmond Davidson, The Malaysian Insider On the eve of…

Zubaidah Abu Bakar, The Rakyat Post IT is understandable that the hullabaloo over Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim’s stepping down as Selangor Menteri Besar continues to make headlines in local…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim is adamant that his apparent unseating as Kuala Selangor division chief in the problem-riddled PKR polls won't affect his hold on the…

Free Malaysia Today BEIJING: When Chinese official Zhou Jianhua refused to tell Communist Party investigators he had received massive bribes, he says they beat him and forced him to drink…

Wong Chin Huat, The Malaysian Insider Where Malaysia is heading, with sensational news from Muslim-only Allah, Hudud for all, body-snatching, wedding gate-crashing, police defying the Common…

Raja Petra Kamarudin Rev Peter Young has just returned to the Lord. Goh Kiat Peng, another senior church leader, introduced me to Peter Young about six or seven years ago and I have admired the…

Will Selangor voters give Pakatan a third term? Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today There are two schools of thought regarding Selangor, in particular regarding whether Pakatan Rakyat can…

Ian McIntyre, The Ant Daily Treated water that flows into our homes is expected to cost more sometime in the future, like it or not. The scarcity of it, coupled with higher production costs…

Ahmad Mustapha Hassan, The Ant Daily The 1969 tragic incident or what is commonly referred to as May13 prompted the Umno/Alliance government to rethink its economic strategy. There was a need,…

He added that Pakatan had at least managed to stop the demonstrations which right-wing Malay groups had planned to carry out in front of churches over the Bible row. “Imagine if that had gone on,…

Khalid Ibrahim's fate hangs on a limb, but... Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today Two crucial events will happen tomorrow and a third is likely. Those who follow the news are already…

Anisah Shukry, The Malaysian Insider It has been almost half a year since PKR engineered the Kajang by-election for Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim’s eventual ouster, but the Selangor menteri…

Emmanuel Surendra, The Malaysian Insider The Bible has always generated doubt since its inception, with its defenders and sceptics debating just about everything under the sun. But such is the…

Justin Ong, Malay Mail Online Malaysia professes to be a multi-racial and multi-cultural federation with Islam as its religion, but there is a mounting movement to turn it simply into an…

Instead of demanding higher royalty, Sarawak and Sabah should perhaps form a partnership with Petronas to develop the states Firdausi Suffian, Free Malaysia Today In Malaysia, the politics…

Although it's possible to replace him through a no-confidence vote, that would be risky for PKR Free Malaysia Today Recently, law professor Shad Saleem Faruqi wrote an interesting article in…

Intervention saves PM Najib’s political standing Asia Sentinel Malaysia’s aging former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had to act earlier this week to save Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak…

The opposition is losing focus due to their fixation to capture Putrajaya Selana Tay, Free Malaysia Today This columnist conducted a survey recently in Kuala Lumpur (KL) between May 6 to…

As Malaysian voters vacillate between the programmes of Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat, much has been said, but little has been done, about establishing a genuine 'third' force' in Malaysian…

The Malaysian Insider A botched campaign strategy that focused more on urban areas in Teluk Intan was behind DAP candidate Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud's loss in the May 31 by-election, as the party…

Has Sultan Ibrahim of Johor’s succession of big money deals over the last six months caused the tide of public opinion to turn against Johor’s royal palace? KiniBiz examines the roots of the…

In the end, all that hue and cry was really over nothing Free Malaysia Today After a weekend of much ado, the Johor Housing and Real Property Board Bill 2014 finally became law on Monday.…

Jennifer Gomez, The Malaysian Insider Regardless of the amendments to the Johor housing enactment passed by the state assembly on Monday removing the sultan’s power in state administrative…

It was disastrous for Vietnam and it won’t work any better for KL  Phillip Bowring, Asia Sentinel China is winning the battle over ownership of the South China Sea. Blatant aggression is…

Shazwan Mustafa Kamal, Malay Mail Online Unresolved issues within Pakatan Rakyat (PR) such as PAS's renewed hudud bid and the mounting discontent in Selangor could leave the pact with just…

Sonia Ramachandran, The Ant Daily The hudud issue is a contentious and confusing one, with Malaysians arguing over whether their country is a secular state. Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF)…

Free Malaysia Today FMT was formed to provide readers with up-to-date news and critical political analysis, and has come to be regarded as a key source of unbiased and non-partisan information…

Gan Ping Sieu, The Malaysian Insider Non-Malay Muslim converts in the country should be allowed to embrace a religion of their choice, just as they had freely embraced Islam earlier.  This is…