Will racism kill Malaysia’s reform agenda?
As former law minister Nazri Aziz’s racist outburst in Semenyih continues to reverberate across the political landscape, the way racism …
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Nazri’s assault on national unity
Just when we think we’ve heard it all, someone finds a way to take racism and bigotry to a whole new …
Hadi’s pain, Mahathir’s gain
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang is a desperate man. Revelations that PAS secretly accepted millions of ringgit from UMNO in …
Najib: Still the man
A recent headline from the Cameron Highlands by-election read, “For FELDA settlers in Cameron Highlands, Najib still the man.” Najib …
Hadi: the voice of hypocrisy
At a party-political campaign meeting in Cameron Highlands in support of the UMNO candidate, PAS president Hadi Awang insisted that …
The offence of the cross
Yet another brouhaha about a cross made headlines last week. A series of lights in a new residential apartment block …
PPBM: Passion or Profit?
PPBM vice-president Rashid Rahman’s call for contracts to be given to PPBM division chiefs and the enthusiastic response it elicited …
Hope & hate in the season of goodwill
Christmas is a special time of year for many Malaysians. For Christians, Christmas is, of course, much more than coloured …
The Malay Dilemma Revisited
In what may well be a prelude to a significant policy shift, Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has taken to …
Mahathir and the ICERD affair
Saturday’s anti-ICERD demonstration has given rise to many questions. Why was the government so unprepared to defend one of its …
