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The Coronavirus pandemic & the beginning of the new Chinese century

March 31, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic, the first major global pandemic of modern times, has brought the world to a standstill. Some half …

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Government must act decisively to contain the coronavirus

January 29, 2020

Kudos to President Xi Jinping for acting decisively to counter the spread of the increasingly deadly coronavirus by suspending all …

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Fraying ethnic relations affecting foreign policy consensus

December 28, 2019

A series of recent controversial foreign policy statements by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has exposed the increasingly deep divisions …

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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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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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Rethinking ECRL

September 11, 2019

In the wake of explosive testimony from Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin,a key aide to former prime minister Najib Tun Razak, detailing …

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ECRL: time to cut our losses and move on

February 4, 2019

  The East Coast Railway Link (ECRL), one of Najib’s toxic legacies, is an issue that just won’t seem to …

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The trouble with having a PM-in-waiting

October 23, 2018

As Anwar Ibrahim settles into his role as prime minister-in-waiting, the question of what’s a PM-in-waiting supposed to do while …

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Part 9: China & Malaysia – The Challenges Ahead

September 27, 2018

China’s dark side Of course, China is far from perfect. Indeed, there is a dark and sinister side to the …

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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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