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Category Archives: International Affairs

Will the coronavirus pandemic change the way we see ourselves as a nation?

March 20, 2020

The tough new measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic that were announced a few days ago have certainly brought home …

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Kuala Lumpur Islamic Summit: old ideas & new realities

December 25, 2019

The speeches and forums are over. The visitors have left. Malaysians, if they even bothered to follow the grandly named …

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Malaysia’s erratic foreign policy

November 29, 2019

Is Malaysia’s foreign policy becoming increasingly erratic under the administration of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad? That is a question …

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Comic books, politics and propaganda

October 22, 2019

What is it with us Malaysians? We seem to careen from one controversy to another in quick succession. Before we …

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Hypocrisy & hyperbole at the UN

October 1, 2019

Dozens of world leaders descended on New York last week for the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), …

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Is Pakatan Harapan serious about protecting human rights?

September 1, 2019

It is disturbing and disappointing that the government has once again deported an asylum seeker and his family without due …

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Zakir Naik: hypocrisy & double standards

June 18, 2019

Faced with the possibility of being served with an extradition order to return to India to face charges of money …

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The radicalization of Malaysia: A reply to MAPIM

May 9, 2019

En. Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid, president of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organization (Mapim), writing in response to my …

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Zakir Naik and the radicalization of Malaysia Baru

May 2, 2019

  According to news reports, the IGP warned that the police had “uncovered a plan by foreign militants to use …

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The Rome Statute & the threat to Malaysia’s constitutional democracy

April 11, 2019

Like many Malaysians, I am utterly dismayed, even disgusted, with the way Malaysia’s accession to the Rome Statute, the treaty …

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We will “be forever a sovereign democratic and independent state founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all nations.” – Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Proclamation of Independence speech, August 31st 1957

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty” ~ John Basil Barnhill

The Short Shrift

Is it about drink-driving or pushing a religious agenda?

The way some of our politicians are getting worked up about the whole drink-driving issue makes me wonder whether other agendas are driving the issue. Let’s get one thing straight: drink-driving (or driving while intoxicated) is just plain wrong. It endangers innocent lives and must never be tolerated. Many countries have very strict drink-driving laws […]

Crooks, the whole lot of them

The slew of accusations now being traded between former leaders about corruption, nepotism and malfeasance in office has, no doubt, confirmed what most Malaysians have long suspected: that their leaders are all corrupt and untrustworthy. They come around waving the flag and pretending to be great patriots but they are just opportunists out to enrich […]

Pigs in the house?

There was an interesting article in the media last September about the state of Malacca being invaded by pigs from across the Strait. Apparently, they were abandoning their habitat for greener pastures. Barely a month later, there was another newspaper headline that read “Question on pigs sparks off heated exchange at Melaka state assembly.” It […]

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