Perak's Pakatan Rakyat 28 assemblymen will not comply with the notice for the March 30 state assembly meeting sent out by Datuk R. Ganesan as they do not recognise him as the state speaker.  read more...  

The Selangor Government, together with the Malaysian Bar Council, today launched the state-level campaign of MyConstitution on March 1 to create greater awareness on the Federal Constitution among the people of Selangor. read more...  

Lim Kit Siang has pledged support for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to remain as Parliamentary Opposition Leader and Pakatan Rakyat's (PR) choice for prime minister even if the number of PKR representatives falls below that of the DAP. read more...  

So far, the only people I can immediately recall who have resigned from a party with integrity, grace and dignity are Zaid Ibrahim and Chua Jui Meng. read more...  

The policy was to contest every single seat, parliament as well as state. Barisan Nasional must never be allowed to win a single seat uncontested. No menang tanpa tanding (walk over) for Barisan Nasional. They would be given a fight even in constituencies where Barisan Nasional can easily win without any effort.  read more...  

We ought to abandon the metaphor of the pie that is increasingly becoming synonymous with the race to meet the gains of material standards at the expense of the real issue - distributive and regulative justice. We ought to adopt a new form of justice that cuts across racial lines and one that looks at the poor in their eyes and into their souls.  read more...  

Seventy-six Malay non-governmental organisations yesterday joined forces to form a consultative council, Majlis Perundingan NGO Melayu (MPM), to defend Malays rights and Islam in the country.  read more...  

In exploring and demonstrating the idea that it is possible to have different reasons for justice, each of which would survive "critical scrutiny" but "yields divergent conclusions", Amartya Sen in his "The Idea of Justice" brought us a delightful tale of three kids with a flute.  read more...  

The prosecution of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is proceeding apace, but that doesn't mean international pressure is useless. Witness the government's reaction to recent international criticism.  read more...  

Some friends think my wife and I are foolish enough to return to Malaysia after having emigrated to Australia for six years. read more...  

Ousted MB of Perak, Dato' Seri Muhammad Nizar Jamaluddin, refuted claims by Dato' Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir that Pakatan Rakyat did not invite BN Aduns to sit on district and village action committees when it was in power.   read more...  

Businessman Lee Yee Tsong's passion for heritage "masterpieces" inspired him to invest more than RM1 million to transform the rundown century-old FMS Bar & Restaurant here. The 104-year-old restaurant in Jalan Sultan Idris Shah last opened its doors to customers in March 2008 and has been closed since.  read more...  

Some while ago a friend gave me a translated copy of the late Chinese essayist Bo Yang's speech —The Ugly Chinaman — delivered at the Iowa University in the US a quarter of a century ago.   read more...  

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim moved today to contain the fallout from squabbling among Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers by announcing the revival of plans to quickly set up a disciplinary panel for the opposition coalition.  read more...  

'If Najib really is the PM for all Malaysians, a man of the people and intends to sincerely help the Chinese community, why couldn't he hear out the predicament of the house owner's son's over his red identity card?'   read more...  

Ever since the general election in 2008, when the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) comprising PKR, PAS and DAP denied the Barisan Nasional (BN) its two-thirds parliamentary majority and successfully won power in five states, the BN has been on a relentless campaign to demonise PR leaders, to entice its elected representatives to jump ship and to create dissension among the coalition's ranks.  read more...  

Last week saw an unusual event in Australian politics: backbench members of Parliament from both sides took a foreign affairs initiative, independent of their party leaderships.  read more...  

If you were overly anxious of a deepening racial fault-line because of the rhetoric of the Perkasa's President, the person who got to be a MP of Pasir Mas on the back of PAS' hardwork and goodwill, and now calling himself ‘independent', I would like you to read the good write-up of the MI's columnist Shazwan Mustafa Kamal below.   read more...  

Dr Farish Noor's assessment of Perkasa as “a class issue… reflecting the anxieties of poor Malays who are scared of the globalization process” is not only off the mark but also plainly incorrect.  read more...  

Faced with mounting criticism over Pakatan Rakyat's candidate choices, its de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has eaten humble pie and apologised for making a string of poor decisions in selecting certain candidates in the last general elections.   read more...  

The tearing down of a poster to welcome Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to a grand Chinese New Year do here on Feb 20 has been described as an attempt to politicise the event.
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It is beginning to appear that two-year of experiment with a viable opposition in Malaysia is just about over. Malaysian Insider, a Kuala Lumpur-based online news site reported last week that as many as 10 members of Pakatan Rakyat, the unwieldy coalition led by Anwar Ibrahim, could be about to defect.   read more...  

There was this little duck that enjoyed paddling in the small pond below the hill. In the middle of the pond was a tiny island. One day it rained and rained. It rained for days and the pond soon started filling up and the tiny island got smaller and smaller. But the duck did not mind the rain because it liked water.  read more...  

Any indication that Malaysia's courts were becoming independent of the government disappeared from view again Tuesday when the five-member Federal Court ruled that United Malays National Organization stalwart Zambry Abdul Kadir is the rightful chief minister of the state of Perak, the country's second biggest and one of its richest.  read more...  

The Barisan Nasional has won the legal battle to keep Perak but the political battle for the hearts and minds of the people has just started — and it remains an uphill battle for BN.  read more...  

The Federal Court today may have denied Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin his Perak mentri besar's post but its just-released collective written judgment is apparently riddled with contradictions, a retired judge said. read more...  

Malaysians must face new global realities and accept increased competition and removal of subsidies, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today. read more...  

Three men pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to causing mischief by fire at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Convent and the All Saints Church on Jan 10. read more...  

Anniversaries, for better or worse, count for something. They are a part of the human habit of ritualizing and inscribing significant events or experiences into our personal or collective memories. February 6th is no different. read more...  

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah called Malaysia a democracy which only existed in name only, and said that reforms could not be expected from the incumbents in power, in an apparent attack against Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN).  read more...  

About 20 per cent of companies and statutory bodies did not contribute to the Social Security Organisation (Socso) in 2009, chief executive K. Selvarajah said. read more...  

45 police reports have been made against Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's former special officer, Nasir Safar. So the police have no choice but to ‘record his statement'.  read more...  

DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd is set to invest RM100 million in an effort to broaden its Turbo3G network and mobile Internet services in Perak and Sarawak over the next three years. read more...  

Polis Melaka akan memanggil bekas pegawai khas kepada Perdana Menteri, Datuk Nasir Safar bagi melengkapkan siasatan kes berikutan kenyataan beliau yang dikatakan berbaur perkauman. read more...  

Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin has accused Barisan Nasional of planning yet another “coup d'état” if the Federal Court rules in his favour next week and reinstalls him as Perak mentri besar.  read more...  

Of all the Perak Pakatan Rakyat lawmakers, it is Tronoh assemblyman V. Sivakumar whose life has changed most drastically after Feb 6, 2009. read more...  

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Politik mula bergolak di negeri Perak berikutan desas-desus pembubaran Dewan Undangan Negeri sejak kebelakangan ini.  Pada hakikatnya, khabar angin ini tersebar sejak rampasan kuasa pada 6 Februari 2009.  Tetapi, pengalaman lalu yang berakhir dengan "satu lagi pembohongan", telah menghakis harapan orang ramai.  Namun, kemungkinan khabar angin ini menjadi kenyataan amat tinggi untuk kali ini.  read more...  

Dr Mahathir Mohamad has recently been giving distorted history lessons on minority populations. read more...  

Napoleon did it. Hitler did it. They both fought on two fronts at the same time -- the Eastern Front and the Western Front. And both paid dearly for their folly. Hitler had to commit suicide in his bunker while Napoleon died from arsenic poisoning while sleeping in his bunk.  read more...  

Is the Opposition coalition crumbling like a cookie? Is the door for real, relevant and radical change slowly closing in on us?  read more...  

DAP chairperson Karpal Singh is not one to shy from criticising his own political comrades and allies. For him, principles come first. read more...