GE14: Last chance for change
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Tag Archives: UMNO
Extolling China, demonising Chinese
Last week, the Interdisciplinary Research and International Strategy Institute launched its latest publication, Pen’China’an Malaysia: Tergadaikah Tanah Kedaulatan Bangsa? [The …
Robert Kuok: from role model to bogeyman
In recent days, senior UMNO leaders have excoriated Robert Kuok, the Hong Kong-based Malaysian tycoon, over allegations by Raja Petra …
The civil service: loyalty & gratitude
Loyalty and gratitude are two words very much in use by UMNO leaders these days, especially when speaking to civil …
MCA: Praising China, attacking Mahathir
With little else to offer, MCA appears to have firmly hitched its wagon to the People’s Republic of China in …
When good men go to jail & scoundrels go free
“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals.” ~ Anonymous It was a …
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 …
The politics of bigotry & extremism
With elections around the corner, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang continues to rant and rave about all sorts of fake …
Defending the faith, defrauding the faithful
The recently concluded UMNO general assembly was, more than anything else, another reminder that the grand old party of Malaysian …
An Islamic state one neighbourhood at a time
A Muslim group is going around Damansara Flora, a mixed suburb of Kuala Lumpur, with a message to non-Muslims that …
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