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Corrupt leaders pushing nation to the brink

October 22, 2020

Kudos to Akhbar Satar, the former president of Transparency International Malaysia, for once again calling out our politicians for their …

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BOOK RELEASE: DIPLOMATICALLY SPEAKING by Dennis Ignatius

May 1, 2018

I am happy to announce that my book Diplomatically Speaking: Dispatches from the Best Democracy We Never Had is now available at …

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Becoming Hannah

May 19, 2017

Once again, Christians are in the spotlight following allegations that they are trying to confuse Muslims, undermine their faith and …

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Indonesia’s wrong turn

April 23, 2017

After a hotly contested and highly divisive campaign, former minister Anies Baswedan has apparently won the contest for the governorship …

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China’s growing domestic involvement

March 4, 2017

Even the most casual observer of our nation’s politics will not fail to notice the growing influence of China in …

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The silence of our friends

June 7, 2012

Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman’s recent visit to Malaysia did more harm than good. According to local media reports, …

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Chin Peng: A place to die

October 27, 2011

Diplomatically Speaking By Dennis Ignatius RECENT reports indicate that Chin Peng, the erstwhile leader of the now defunct Communist Party of …

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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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Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can ~ John Wesley

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

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