GE15 campaign notes: Who scares you less?
The campaign has begun in earnest. Flags have sprouted all over the city like ‘lalang’. Everywhere ‘ceramahs’ are in full …
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Its not the public but the politicians that need to be educated
Commenting on the recent Timah whiskey controversy, former deputy Dewan Rakyat speaker Azalina Othman Said opined in Parliament that the …
Is Malaysia a failed state?
Daniel Moss clearly struck a raw nerve when he suggested in an opinion piece that Malaysia is stumbling towards failed …
The Ketuanan Melayu agenda & the end of national unity
[Part One of a three-part series on the current political situation in Malaysia] May 9th will mark two years since …
We were Malaysians once
My friend Harry Lau passed away a few days ago. We grew up in Bukit Mertajam and, for more than …
In season of mistrust some hope for the nation
It was quite an extraordinary sight that we were treated to last week – no less than seven Pakatan Harapan …
This Malaysia Day let’s boycott hate and fear
There’s no escaping the fact that we are now a nation deeply divided, full of suspicion and fear, instinctively reacting …
Part 7: Rethinking race
In many ways, we are several different people groups living together in the same space, coming together when we must …
Part 6: Divided we stand
Deng Xiaoping once remarked to a visiting Malaysian delegation that if China could find a way to unleash the natural …
The closing of the Malay mind
In his 1987 book, ‘The closing of the American mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the …
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