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Our shameful response to genocide against the Rohingya

May 1, 2020

Many have been deeply shocked and saddened by the response to the latest wave of Rohingya refugees to arrive at …

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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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Which man will Muhyiddin be?

March 8, 2020

He can be the great leader few expect him to be or he can be the duplicitous politician many think …

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Is clean government an impossible dream?

March 6, 2020

As Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin begins the arduous process of trying to form a cabinet, one theme that keeps coming …

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A day of infamy

February 28, 2020

Sunday, 23rd February 2020 will long be remembered as our Pearl Harbour, a day of infamy like no other in …

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End the LTTE farce now

February 11, 2020

While major issues like the coronavirus understandably grabs a lot of attention, an issue of no less importance, one that …

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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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What the influenza epidemic says about government priorities

January 15, 2020

  Our nation is now in the throes of an increasingly serious influenza epidemic. In early December last year, the …

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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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Haram to be Malaysian?

October 13, 2019

PAS president Hadi Awang, discussing his involvement in the recently concluded Kongres Maruah Melayu (KMM) – by all counts, an …

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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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