Breaking Views
Reform in the public sector — Lim Sue Goan
SEPT 7 —  Let us start with two true stories. Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) counsel Datuk Abdul Razak Musa grabbed his own neck and demonstrated to the courtroom ...Read More
Threat to MyConsti: Rise, 100 Lawyers, rise — Amer Hamzah Arshad (loyarburok.com)
SEPT 7 — Last Sunday (September 5) evening when I heard the shocking news that an unknown 1 Malaysia Youth Graduands Club had lodged a police report against the much-loved ...Read More
Siapa sebenarnya menabur fitnah? — Berita Harian
7 SEPT — Ketika umat Islam sibuk dan meriah untuk menyambut kedatangan 1 Syawal, kerajaan Pulau Pinang pimpinan DAP begitu ghairah menuding jari kepada Umno, kononnya parti itu ...Read More
To tell a compelling story — Sakmongkol AK 47
SEPT 7 — I propose to move from discussing how racial differences can cause disunity and conflict. We all know we have our racist quotient. The objective is to contain these to ...Read More
Kenapa pertikai Artikel 153 selepas 53 tahun merdeka? — Nadzir Awang Ahmad
7 SEPT — Rakyat Malaysia tidak kira bangsa, agama mahupun keturunan seharusnya bersyukur dengan nikmat kemerdekaan yang kita kecapi hari ini. Tanggal 31 Ogos yang lalu, genaplah ...Read More
The cyber world — Lim Sue Goan
SEPT 6 — Should there be two different standards to deal with the real world and the cyber world? The cyber world is a totally different world where views can be expressed freely. ...Read More
Zero tolerance for racism or zero action? — Thomas Lee Seng Hock
SEPT 6 — It is nearly a month since the controversial racist remarks allegedly made by Johor school principal Siti Inshah Mansor on August 12 were highlighted in the media, but no ...Read More
Yang kita tak perasan — Loyar Muda
6 SEPT — Isu rasis semakin hangat dan menjadi bahan berita bagi setiap media. Tidak kira cetak atau elektronik, semua berlumba-lumba untuk meletakkan isu rasis sebagai santapan ...Read More
The nonsense has to stop — Lim Mun Fah
SEPT 6 — The situation is not right, as similar incidents keep taking place. Things that were supposed to be clear and distinguishable have become confusing. The confusion has ...Read More
Improve our schools, not tinker with examinations — M. Bakri Musa
SEPT 6 — In about two weeks nearly half a million Malaysian school children will be sitting for their UPSR, the national examination taken at the end of Year Six. Today there is ...Read More
What social contract? — Clive Kessler
SEPT 6 — “Najib warns against questioning ‘social contract’,” it is reported. This claim is plain and simple “historical revisionism”. To what “social contract” precisely is the ...Read More
Buang daerah atau negeri ‘penjenayah siber’ — Utusan Malaysia
6 SEPT — Ketika hati umat Melayu-Islam negara ini masih terluka dengan tindakan Wee Meng Cheng atau lebih dikenali Namewee yang mengulangi perbuatan biadapnya dengan menerbitkan ...Read More
Dealing with the Ridhuan Tees and Ibrahim Alis — Aston Paiva (loyarburok.com)
SEPT 6 —  “The government should also initiate legal action against irresponsible writers, like the controversial Mingguan Malaysia columnist Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah who ...Read More
Malaysia or Malaysaja? Part 2: Clarifying and reconciling the Constitution — Nurul Izzah Anwar
SEPT 6 — Since I wrote my August 31, 2010 article, titled “The Ultimate Malaysian Debate: Malaysia or Malaysaja?”, which called for a constructive engagement with Perkasa, and ...Read More
Malaysian Youths: Why must we care? — Loshana K. Shagar
SEPT 6 — I’ve always thought over a question: What’s worse than being ignorant? I am a firm believer that knowledge is power, so the answer was always “nothing,” until now. ...Read More
Krisis ciptaan lawan kukuhkan Pakatan Rakyat — Mohamed Zainal Abidin Hussin
5 SEPT — Riuh rendah 1 Malysia. PAS kini gadai maruah. Peristiwa Ahli Parlimen Sedang, Teo Nie Ching hadir di sebuah surau dalam kawasannya telah dijadikan isu besar. Ahli ...Read More
Cina DAP tak boleh masuk masjid, Cina MCA boleh… — Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man
5 SEPT — Negara jadi kecoh seminggu dua ini bilamana ada sorang dua Ahli Parlimen dari DAP masuk ke dalam ruang solat masjid dan surau di Selangor seolah-olah itulah tragedi ...Read More
Tackling racism in Malaysia — Sakmongkol AK47
SEPT 5 — For the past few days I have written several articles about racism in Malaysia. My objective is to see the extent of racism in our country. My report is, racism is ...Read More
A level playing field — Rajinder Puri
SEPT 5 — British media has uncovered how Pakistani cricket players in Britain are heavily involved in corrupt match-fixing. A high level Scotland Yard probe is on. Pakistan ...Read More
Dilema sebenar Taib Mahmud — Kadir Dikoh
5 SEPT — Datuk Amar Abang Johari Openg, kelihatan segak berbaju Melayu berwarna putih, dengan songket bercorak coklat. Tenaga dan kepetahannya berucap masih seperti 10 atau 15 ...Read More
Umno berpesta fitnah di bulan barakah — Mohamed Hanipa Maidin
5 SEPT — Cuba bayangkan jika Rasulullah s.a.w ditakdirkan Allah masih hidup di zaman ini. Tidakkah kita fikirkan bahawa Utusan dan Umno mungkin juga akan menemplak tindakan ...Read More
Keistimewaan Melayu adalah hak — Dr Shamrahayu Abd. Aziz
5 SEPT — Perkara 153 Perlembagaan Persekutuan mengiktiraf hak istimewa orang-orang Melayu. Ia hendaklah ditafsir menurut sejarah dan falsafah yang ada di sebalik kewujudannya. Ini ...Read More
Indahnya merdeka bertemu Ramadan — Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee
5 SEPT — Alangkah bahagianya jika hari merdeka bertemu Ramadan atau bulan puasa buat selama-lamanya. Melihat kepada sambutan merdeka ke 53 baru-baru ini, sejuk hati, cukup beradab ...Read More
No place for God? – Thomas Lee Seng Hock
SEPT 4 – Professor Stephen William Hawking, the author of the 1988 runaway world best seller A Brief History of Time, has declared the dreadful finality that there is no place for ...Read More
Revisiting the Bumiputera corporate equity issue — Lim Teck Ghee
SEPT 4 — More than five years have passed since the Asli corporate study report revealed that Bumiputera ownership of corporate equity in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange had ...Read More
Seeing the back of Musa: An answer to a prayer — Tunku Abdul Aziz
SEPT 4 — I hardly ever receive presents because, I suppose, I rarely ever give any. I do not even bother to celebrate my own birthday; it comes and goes completely unnoticed. When ...Read More
Surat terbuka kepada Datuk Ibrahim Ali — Loyar Muda
4 SEPT — Salam Ramadan saya ucapkan kepada Datuk. Moga Datuk mendapat rahmat dan kesejahteraan sepanjang bulan yang penuh mulia ini. Tujuan saya menulis pada petang Jumaat ...Read More
Hey boss, are you reading this? —  David Ngiau
SEPT 4 — Granted, we’ll always get disgruntled footballers taking potshots at their former clubs and bosses who they feel betrayed by after the closing of transfer windows — the ...Read More
Umno dan dilema neokonservatif — Muhamad Takiyuddin Ismail
4 SEPT — Sebagai parti yang dominan dalam sistem politik Malaysia, Umno merupakan sebuah rejim konservatif. Tetapi konservatif yang dimaksudkan di sini bukanlah dalam ertikata ...Read More
Sharing the Singapore model with the world —  Paul Gilfeather
SEPT 4 — While Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was paying tribute to architects Khoo Peng Beng and his wife Belinda Huang during his National Day Rally speech last Sunday, the ...Read More
Meritocracy according to Master M — Tay Tian Yan
SEPT 4 — Master M is more than a rightist spiritual leader, he also doubles up as a master of extreme rightist theories. He has recently come up with the theory that meritocracy ...Read More
Degree of decency in politics? — Zaharom Nain
SEPT 4 —  “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3-5). Truly decent Malaysians, like Aliran ...Read More
Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em — Tunku Abdul Aziz
SEPT 4 — What a charade. And what tragic depths of professional incompetence the recent resumption of the coroner’s inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock had demonstrated for ...Read More
Is the government spineless? — Sakmongkol AK47
SEPT 4 — It is, if it doesn’t handle Namewee the right way. There you are. The poster boy for the outrage against racism is a Muar Chinese by the name of Namewee. He is now the ...Read More
1 Malaysia: Moving beyond racial boundaries — Mathuraiveran Marimuthu
SEPT 3 — Fifty three years has past since our forefathers, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Tan Siew Sin and Tun VT Sambanthan fought for Independence. What was in their mind was to ensure ...Read More
Liong Sik puts government in tight spot — Clara Chooi
SEPT 3 — When Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik was hauled up to shoulder a chunk of the blame for the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal, his persecution was viewed as a whitewash to take ...Read More
James Puthucheary: A giant of the Merdeka Generation — Karim Raslan
SEPT 3 — As Malaysians celebrate Merdeka despite political and economic uncertainties, I find myself thinking about the late James Puthucheary. A giant of the Merdeka Generation — ...Read More
Jangan sempitkan makna Gerakan Reformasi — Norazimah Mohamad Nor
3 SEPT — Saya membaca penuh khusyuk biografi ringkas ala kempen yang di buat oleh Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad yang hari ini adalah Pengarah Komunikasi Parti Keadilan Rakyat dan juga Ahi ...Read More
Going to court over law — Mohd Aiman Ismail
SEPT 3 — I read with interest the “analysis” headlined “Are Malaysian GLC contracts worth the paper they are signed on?” which appears on Malaysian Insider today (Sept 3), which I ...Read More
The Teo Nie Ching incident: Lessons from the ground — Shazeera Ahmad Zawawi (loyarburok.com)
SEPT 3 — I visited Hyderabad in 2005 to observe the impact of communal riots in Shah Ali Banda on the local society. During the visit, I learned two important lessons on community ...Read More
Hahaha… hard facts MSM — Jahabar Sadiq
SEPT 3 — Last night, Datuk Seri Najib Razak told the public to trust the mainstream media and not the alternative media which are based on half truths. This morning, I woke up to ...Read More
Namewee, O Namewee, when will you ever learn? — Lim Sue Goan
SEPT 3 — Rapper Wee Meng Chee or better known as Namewee is wrong this time as he has certainly done something inappropriate. Many people supported him in the national anthem ...Read More
Namewee and Siti Inshah, an evil combination — Tay Tian Yan
SEPT 3 — I watched Namewee’s “Nah!!!” Let me start by saying that I loved the beginning part: Come on, give me some kick! Come on! Yes! Interesting, huh! This shows that he is a ...Read More
Bahas kaum tak semestinya buruk — Kunta Kinte
3 SEPT — Di negara kita Malaysia ini, kita tak boleh buat apa-apa pun dengan tidak dirancang betul-betul. Bukan apa, walau apa pun yang kita buat, tindak balas mesti ...Read More
Tanggungjawab semua umat Islam tangkis propaganda Islam fobia — Berita Harian
3 SEPT — Pebagai anggota Pertubuhan Persidangan Islam (OIC), kita dapat berbangga kerana Malaysia sering menjadi model negara yang disegani kerana kestabilan politik dan ekonomi, ...Read More
Reflections on housing a nation — Mah Bow Tan
SEPT 3 — My earliest childhood memories are of growing up in an attap hut that was part of a kampung somewhere in Hougang. We drew water from a well and ate by the light of a ...Read More
Having enough of Tony Blair — Paul Gilfeather
SEPT 3 — When the usually mild-mannered former Tory minister Geoffrey Howe once snapped and issued a bollocking, the recipient said it was like being “mauled by a dead sheep”. I ...Read More
In defence of freedom of expression — June Yap
SEPT 3 — The subject of censorship in Singapore is perceived to be a sensitive one, perhaps due to our having been indoctrinated to take it for granted. Yet, recent incidents of ...Read More
Racial unity: Where we fail – N.G. Vinod (loyarburok.com)
SEPT 2 – The current call by our Prime Minister for 1 Malaysia is facing hiccups from its management and not forgetting the public whom are looking at it as something new. It is ...Read More
Mufti yang berani terjun ke dalam api neraka — Faizal Riduan
2 SEPT — Tajuk tanpa prangka ini bukan datang dari saya tetapi saya ambil dari kenyataan Mufti Perlis, Sahibus Samahah Dr Juanda Jaya sendiri, “Orang yang berani berfatwa adalah ...Read More
Pragmatism and harmony — Lim Mun Fah
SEPT 2 — When the 53th National Day celebration is clouded by racial and religious issues, it is time we should take a serious look and reflect on the country’s harmony and ...Read More
Before and after stepping inside the surau — Tay Tian Yan
SEPT 2 — Can a non-Muslim step inside a surau? We are not in any capacity to argue about this thing here. We should leave it to the wise religious clerics. Should Teo Nie Ching ...Read More
Saluran bantuan masjid daripada bukan Islam — Utusan Malaysia
2 SEPT — Mengapa wujud pula kelonggaran kepada orang bukan Islam di negara ini dibenarkan memasuki ruang solat tanpa disyaratkan menutup aurat seperti dilakukan oleh Ahli Parlimen ...Read More
Is it wise to take away daily lunch breaks? — Conrad Raj
SEPT 2 — One of the traits of Singaporeans is their love of food. So when the Singapore Exchange recently floated a proposal to do away with the daily hour-and-a-half lunch break, ...Read More
Terima kasih Musa dan Ismail selamat meneruskan kecemerlangan PDRM — Utusan Malaysia
2 SEPT — Cadangan Kementerian Dalam Negeri melantik Tan Sri Ismail Omar sebagai Ketua Polis Negara yang baru berkuat kuasa 13 September depan menamatkan spekulasi serta khabar ...Read More
Komitmen Musa terhadap negara kebanggaan PDRM — Ridzuan Yop
2 SEPT — Selepas berkhidmat dan menabur bakti dalam pasukan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) selama 41 tahun dan menjawat jawatan sebagai Ketua Polis Negara (KPN), selama lima tahun ...Read More
Don’t praise the new IGP yet! – The Malaysian Insider
SEPT 1 – This morning, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan went to office and did not know if September 12 was really to be his last day of work, after two yearly ...Read More
Tahniah guru bebas politik – Subky Latif
1 SEPT – Apa pun kaum guru wajar diberi tahniah kerana hendak diberi semula hak bebas berpolitik seperti yang dijamin oleh perlembagaan negara. Asalnya kaum guru itu dilahirkan ...Read More
Isu masjid: Usaha musuh Pakatan gagal – Abd Shukur Harun
1 SEPT – Usaha beberapa ulama dan para pemimpin PAS mengemukakan hujah Al-Quran dan Sunnah yang mengharuskan orang bukan Islam memasuki masjid, setelah mendapat izin pihak ...Read More
Right or wrong is the only criterion — Sakmongkol AK47
SEPT 1 — A group of teenagers in western New York have been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during evening prayers for Ramadan, ...Read More
Holy mother c***! — Art Harun
SEPT 1 — I have written about how Tenaga Nasional Berhad or some people in TNB could not see the light from the bright. Please see my article titled No joke please, we are ...Read More
Okay, forget meritocracy, but what about professionalism? — Ooi Kee Beng
SEPT 1 — Malaysia’s former prime minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, has been making a name for himself as a blogger after he retired in 2003. Perhaps because the man’s main ...Read More
Behind the Chinese school controversy — Ong Tee Keat
SEPT 1 — The dire need for a new Chinese primary school in any community is sure to attract support and will hog the limelight as far as the Chinese community is concerned. ...Read More
When luxury brands outsource, should they tell? — Tan Soo Jiuan
SEPT 1 — Italy’s Parliament has passed a law that imposes, among other things, the requirement that Italian manufacturers be able to prove that their products were primarily made ...Read More
Is low-wage China disappearing? — Fan Gang
SEPT 1 — Reports about labour shortages, wage disputes and wage increases for migrant workers in China have abounded of late. They naturally raised concerns, or expectations, that ...Read More
Tolak, elak provokasi jumud bagi pastikan keutuhan perpaduan — Berita Harian
1 SEPT — Ungkapa Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengenai Malaysia sebagai tanah tumpah darah kita sehingga kita disemadikan, membawa pengertian sangat mendalam untuk direnung dan dihayati ...Read More
Ibrahim Ali patut berdialog — Zaid Ibrahim
1 SEPT — YB muda Nurul Izzah Anwar harus dipuji untuk mempelawa Perkasa berdialog bersamanya mengenai apakah yang menjadi kebimbangan Perkasa. Beliau bertanya apa punca atau ...Read More
Foreign labourers and immigrants — Lim Mun Fah
SEPT 1 — There is a universal law for the success of companies and countries, namely the appropriate use of manpower. Today, Singapore is one country that knows best how to select ...Read More
Provokasi berbaur perkauman — Muhammad Afifi Abdul Razak
1 SEPT — Sejak akhir-akhir ini, beberapa tindakan provokasi berbaur perkauman dan agama oleh segelintir pihak di Malaysia telah dilaporkan oleh kebanyakan akhbar perdana tempatan. ...Read More
Don’t ask — Sakmongkol AK47
SEPT 1 — I saw a posting on The Malaysian Insider re-quoting the speech John F. Kennedy made in 1961. I thought it would be mentally stimulating to place what was written in a ...Read More
Semua kaum kena ikhlas kongsi aspirasi nasional — Teo Kok Seong
1 SEPT — Perasaan perkauman dalam apa jua bentuk terhadap mana-mana kaum, lebih-lebih lagi dalam konteks 1 Malaysia yang menganjurkan perpaduan utuh, adalah tidak wajar sama ...Read More
Merdeka Day — Lim Sue Goan
AUG 31 — Many racial and religious turmoils have taken place recently, causing the National Day atmosphere to be not peaceful. Is it an aftermath of the 2008 political tsunami or ...Read More
53 years on, cautious optimism despite rising racism — Dr David KL Quek
AUG 31 – This year, I became a senior citizen. I could now withdraw my EPF and I qualify for some discounts for travel and surprisingly even for some buffet meals at some ...Read More
The meaning of Merdeka – Azira Aziz (loyarburok.com)
AUG 31 – Merdeka to me was family day. My parents would bundle me up (as both my siblings were in boarding school) and the three of us would head to Dataran Merdeka incredibly ...Read More
Let Penang be a beacon of hope for Merdeka — Lim Guan Eng
AUG 31 — As we celebrate our 53rd Merdeka, the country appears more divided than ever by racial, religious and even personal hatred. Fomenting racial and religious intolerance and ...Read More
Merdeka 53: Membudayakan demokrasi — Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin
31 OGOS — Tahun ini, ulang tahun kemerdekaan negara Malaysia melangkah ke angka 53. Pastinya pada usia kemerdekaan sebegini, sewajarnya Malaysia telah digarap menjadi sebuah ...Read More
Traitors: A trademark and tradition of Umno! — Martin Jalleh
AUG 31 — The Umno-dominated government stubbornly sticks to the same old tricks to try to sink the Opposition. One such stale attempt is to label as “traitors” those who refuse to ...Read More
The ultimate Malaysian debate: Malaysia or Malaysaja? — Nurul Izzah Anwar
AUG 31 — Perkasa claims to defend Malay rights in a multi racial Malaysia. And these Malay rights are inalienable, non-negotiable and permanent. Those that disagree with their ...Read More
Merdeka! — Tunku Abdul Rahman
AUG 31, 1957 — Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Highnesses, Your Excellencies, People of Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. I am indeed proud that on this, the greatest day in ...Read More
Great leaders are colour-blind — Tay Tian Yan
AUG 30 — The “Invictus” is a biographical drama film about the story of South African President Nelson Mandela and the racial issues in South Africa. Rugby was viewed as a game ...Read More
The Mahathir prediction – Thomas Lee Seng Hock
AUG 30 – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has predicted that racial tension would escalate if the New Economic Policy (NEP) type of policies is removed in favour of open policies which ...Read More
Apology and forgiveness — Lim Sue Goan
AUG 30 — Many people have apologised recently, including young Malaysian Yong Vui Kong, who has been convicted and sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Singapore, three ...Read More
Common Malayan characteristic — Tunku Abdul Rahman
AUG 30, 1957 — I am very glad that an Historical Exhibition has been included in our Merdeka programme and, as you have said, I am keenly interested in the work which the Malayan ...Read More
Beyond the rituals of Ramadan — M.Bakri Musa
AUG 30 — Involved as we are in the many rituals of Ramadan (beyond the integral daytime fasting), it is not surprising that we fail to appreciate much less live the true spirit of ...Read More
Leadership and Malay self respect — Sakmongkol AK47
AUG 30 — I am trying to rationalise some people's fixation with the NEP. I am certain that Ibrahim Ali isn't that stupid to know that the NEP has officially ended in 1990. Yet he ...Read More
Membangsatkan nama Islam — Syahredzan Johan (www.loyarburok.com)
AUG 30 — Malaysia sering diiktiraf di persada dunia sebagai negera majoriti Muslim yang moderat dan toleran. Malangya, kita tidak dapat lagi berbangga dengan kenalan ini. Saban ...Read More
Bukan muslim, masjid dan mainan politik — Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin
30 OGOS: Saya amat bimbang apabila isu-isu agama dipolitikkan. Islam cuba ditafsirkan menurut kepentingan politik masing-masing. Hukum-hakam syarak menjadi mangsa. Permainan ...Read More
Bila bukan Islam dipuji, sesama Muslim dicaci! — Fathul Bari Mat Jahya
30 OGOS — Kita tidak nafikan bahawa ilmuwan Islam berselisih pandangan tentang hokum bukan Muslim masuk ke masjid. Ada yang membenarkan secara mutlak. Ada juga yang melarangnya ...Read More
Kecelaruan fikiran politik Nik Aziz — Zulkiflee Bakar
30 OGOS — Apabila Mursyidul Am PAS, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, kelmarin mempertahankan tindakan Ahli Parlimen Serdang, Teo Nie Ching menyampaikan sumbangan dan tazkirah di ...Read More
The Singapore Spirit is what will keep us thriving — Eugene KB Tan
AUG 30 — The backdrop to yesterday’s National Day Rally was vastly different from last year’s. The economy is expected to grow between 13 and 15 per cent this year compared to the ...Read More
Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka!!! — Gayatri Unsworth
AUG 30 — We celebrate Merdeka tomorrow. And what do we have to show for it? Racist educators, intolerant politicians, bigoted pressure groups, xenophobic newspapers, crimes of ...Read More
Faeces ‘diplomacy’ needs to be flushed — Armando Siahaan
AUG 29 — Having a movement has taken on a totally new meaning in this country thanks to some nincompoops who see the brown-coloured end product of the bodily function as a viable ...Read More
Toll-free National Day — Gobind Singh Deo
AUG 29 — I refer to the announcement by the works minister that August 31 will see a toll-free day for motorists using the LDP expressway between Puchong and Damansara. This is a ...Read More
Datuk Saifudin Abdullah, we need more leaders like you — Ruzaimi Ramli
AUG 29 — Okay. First and foremost, this article is not written to “bodek” Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, it is just to “celebrate” his bravery and pragmatism in defending the rights of ...Read More
Apabila susu dibalas tuba — Ku Seman Ku Hussain
29 OGOS — “TAHNIAH” diucapkan di atas sikap berlembut kerajaan memaafkan seorang pelajar yang biadab menghasilkan video Negarakuku tiga tahun lalu. Video Negarakuku bukan saja ...Read More
Isu bukan Islam masuk masjid — Dr Muhd Nur Manuty
29 OGOS — Bagaikan menahan lukah di pergentingan, UMNO dan para kuncunya tidak habis-habis menerkam apa jua kesempatan dan isu sebagai modal mempertahan survival politik perkauman ...Read More
An evolutionary perspective on Indonesia’s religious conflict — Dyna Rochmyaningsih
AUG 29 — In spite of our happiness in the fasting month of Ramadan, we — Indonesian Muslims – know that religious conflict has happened — and continues to happen — in our country: ...Read More
Media accountability — Jayathi Ghosh
AUG 29 — There is a need to think of new, creative ways to make sure that our media are accountable to the general public, including those without any political voice. The ...Read More
The nazification of the USA — Paul Craig Roberts
AUG 29 — Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce an important article, “Obama’s US ...Read More
Merdekakan pemikiran perkauman — Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee
29 OGOS — Menjelang hari kemerdekaan negara, saya selalu teringat tiga orang pegawai British yang banyak berjasa kepada Tanah Melayu iaitu R.O. Winstedt, George Maxwell dan Frank ...Read More

Opinion

Shebby Singh

This is why Wayne needs Rooney

SEPT 7 — Indeed, stick Wayne Rooney up front alone and you get a sulking, angry bear with a sore head. He gets frustrated easily because nobody ...
Amin Iskandar

Aidilfitri dan arwah atuk

7 SEPT — Setiap kali menjelang Aidilfitri, saya pasti akan teringatkan arwah atuk. Sewaktu beliau masih hidup, suasana Hari Raya akan menjadi begitu ...
Colin Boyd Shafer

Baby dumping: Blame someone before someone blames you!

SEPT 7 — I am not an avid “Family Guy” viewer, but a good friend of mine is. The other day we were discussing how the show was recently un-banned in ...

 

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Aidil Rusli
The season finally begins

SEPT 4 — As I write this, the transfer window for English Premier League clubs has just closed, and fans all over the world are getting excited over the last-minute deals that’s ...

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Amin Iskandar
Aidilfitri dan arwah atuk

7 SEPT — Setiap kali menjelang Aidilfitri, saya pasti akan teringatkan arwah atuk. Sewaktu beliau masih hidup, suasana Hari Raya akan menjadi begitu meriah kerana karisma beliau ...

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Andy West
Why clubs despise international football

SEPT 5 — The knee injury suffered by Michael Dawson during England’s 4-0 victory over Bulgaria on Friday night offers another latest illustration of why so many Premier League ...

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Anita Anandarajah
The mad dash to school

SEPT 5 — The lazy hazy days of summer will come to an end soon and there is no surer sign than the start of the new academic year.

The last three months have been quiet here as ...

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Art Harun
Eh, Tun dah lupa?

AUG 25 — Every year, during the first two or three days of fasting, I suffer from headaches. That is because my blood sugar level drops. Thank God this will go away after the ...

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Baradan Kuppusamy
The impartiality of judges

FEB 26 — Judicial Commissioner Mohamad Ariff Yusof should not have recused himself from hearing the judicial review case filed by Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin ...

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Chua Tee Yong
Nationalisation of toll operators not viable?

JULY 15 — There seems to be a misconception regarding my proposal to nationalise PLUS, the company which operates our highways. I had proposed that Khazanah acquire the ...

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Dina Zaman
Diversity in a surau

AUG 25 — The women’s surau in our office building is tucked away in a carpark and near the management office. It’s small and clean, and functions well as a place for prayers.  ...

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Dzulkefly Ahmad
Patriotism revisited

SEPT 4 — I did not want to write anything on the 53rd Merdeka Day this year. For the more discerning sections of the rakyat, the spate of events that preceded it spoke for ...

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Fahmi Fadzil
Siti dan saya
SEPT 9 — Dalam masa-masa yang bercelaru seperti ini, sewaktu Umno dan Barisan Nasional kelihatan seperti kehilangan arah tuju dan rakyat Malaysia merasai bahang akibatnya, saya ...Read More
Hafidz Baharom
Students, gnōthi seauton!

AUG 29 — A recent buka puasa discussion ended with me being branded as too naïve in my argument that tertiary students should be granted the freedom of political speech and ...

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Hanipa Maidin
When Umno forgot to ‘kidnap’ the speaker

FEB 28 — One tends to make a mistake when doing something in a hurry. That was what happened to Umno. The unholy haste to topple the PR government in Perak has now landed the ...

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Hsu Dar Ren
Within the Four Seas, all men are brothers!

AUG 23 — My late parents were both teachers. My father was the headmaster of a school in Perak for 26 years.

My mum and family moved to Penang when I was five years old and she ...

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Idlan Zakaria
Lessons on… and off… the bike

AUG 30 — I’ve taken to taking the bus to work during Ramadan, because it’s a three-mile less-than-flat ride each way and I need to conserve some energy to help me last these ...

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Ioannis Gatsiounis
Proceed with the Ground Zero mosque

AUG 19 — A mosque and community centre planned two blocks from the 9/11 attacks in lower Manhattan is one giant step closer to becoming a reality, after New York City’s Landmarks ...

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James Chin
Nothing to cheer about

AUG 3 — Why are people so excited about the arrest of Tun Ling Liong Sik? It is almost certain that the former MCA president will be found “not guilty” or will end up with a small ...

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Jeremiah Mahadevan
A more religious brand of secularism

NOV 27 — Religion is a problem for PKR. The recent bouts of infighting over Kulim MP Zulkifli Noordin's claims that Malaysia is an Islamic state seem to indicate a party ...

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Jerome Martin
Japan-Malaysia ties in jeopardy over whaling

JULY 26 — The samurai are sharpening their swords, the pahlawans their pedangs and the ninjas their nunchuks (well, polishing anyway) as a literally huge diplomatic squabble ...

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Joan Lau
Who’s really responsible?

MAY 16 — What a week it’s been; violence escalated in Bangkok, David Cameron became the prime minister of Britain, the political big guns — from both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan ...

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John Lee
Freedom 53 years later…

AUG 31 — Every year I find it difficult to write about Merdeka. Almost exactly a month ago, I attended a candlelight vigil in Petaling Jaya, commemorating the 50th anniversary of ...

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Jonson Chong
Merdeka Day resolution

AUG 31 — A friend asked me some probing questions about “the realities of celebrating Merdeka Day.” As you can tell from the following questions, she’s a funny girl:

“Does ...

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K. Anand
Finishing with a bang

 

MAY 9 — So here we are, on the last day of the English Premier League season. Most of us had it all marked in our calendar back in August as the day by when we hoped our team ...

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Khalid Jaafar
A national buffoonery

AUG 20 — "All great world-historic facts and personages appear twice. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." So Marx wrote in the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

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Khalid Samad
Persoalan kuil Seksyen 19 dan tindakan Pewaris
OGOS 30 — (Artikel ini diterbitkan pertama kali pada Jan 10, 2009)

Kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) telah meninggalkan banyak perkara yang perlu diperbetulkan oleh kerajaan ...

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Lee Wei Lian
Pudu Jail demolition a slap in KL’s hopeful face

JUNE 26 — In yet another all too familiar Malaysian contradiction, no sooner was it announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak that KL would be made a vibrant world-class ...

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Leslie Lau
Good ol’ days? It’s never been this good

SEPT 24 — I spent a few useless hours this week listening to old television theme songs on Youtube. And listening to the old tunes — from “Rockford Files”, “Magnum PI”, “The Mary ...

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Lim Ka Ea
Talk to the phone!

AUG 26 — Those who know me will also know this: I don’t like talking on the phone and sometimes I even forget to bring my mobile phone with me. They will also know that I own a ...

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Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
Assault on Legislature, Constitution dead
By Malik Imtiaz Sarwar

MARCH 7 — Discussing the Perak situation with specificity is, by this stage, a difficult thing to do. So much has happened so quickly. Nuanced actions ...

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Mei Chern
Suggestions for 1 Malaysia

JAN 22 — The recent controversy over the “A” word, and the inability of the authorities to resolve it from the start has further damaged the credibility of the 1 Malaysia ...

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Nathaniel Tan
Namewee: How to drown discord with harmony

SEPT 3 — Namewee, Siti Inshah, Ibrahim Ali are names that seem to be on everyone’s lips.

We all seem to be caught up about who should be punished, who should be taken to court, ...

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Reuben Miranda
The journey begins

SEPT 3 — Gordon Ramsay. Anthony Bourdain. Marco Pierre White. I am sure that these names are familiar to many of you. Now, how about these: Jason Adams, Sarah Ingless, Ainya ...

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Sazlin Daud
And finally growing roots

MARCH 23 — The past few months have had me completely overwhelmed with repairs, renovation work (and nightmares) for our new house.

As I sit in my dining room surrounded by stacks ...

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Shamini
Put a cap on AIDS

SEPT 4 — I stepped into the home of the oldest transgender in the village, and was nervous.

I didn’t want Mak Lah — a leader among the transsexuals and female sex workers who had ...

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Shebby Singh
This is why Wayne needs Rooney

SEPT 7 — Indeed, stick Wayne Rooney up front alone and you get a sulking, angry bear with a sore head. He gets frustrated easily because nobody understands or sees his movement, ...

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Suflan Shamsuddin
Why Khairy’s election analysis is worrying

APRIL 28 — Yesterday, an article by Khairy Jamaludin (Thoughts on Hulu Selangor) setting out his thoughts on the recent by-election was posted in The Malaysian Insider.

It left ...

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Syafique Shuib
United citizens of Malaysia

JULY 14 — Everyone seems to be talking about 1 Malaysia recently. Great, another agenda pushing towards national unity.

Haven’t we all heard of this many times? If you know ...

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Tasneem
Torn between right and wrong

SEPT 4 — Yesterday, I confiscated some firecrackers from my students. Apparently, they had bought it from one of the school van operators who also had a small, obviously illegal ...

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Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
Petronas governance, oil and talent

JUNE 29 — There are reports of a supposed tussle of wills between the prime minister and the board of Petronas over his choice of a non-executive, independent director for the ...

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Tunku Aziz
The cost of Malaysia-US relations

APRIL 17 — And so it has finally happened. What a great honour for Malaysia. Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the prime minister of 1 Malaysia fame, was thrown a few crumbs, a few brief ...

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Wan Hamidi Hamid
Rapture of the Deep

MAY 19 — Deep Purple performed Malaysia in 1982, 1999 and 2001, and I missed all the shows. When they were here again last Sunday night, it was an opportunity not to be missed. ...

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Yusuf Martin
1 Merdeka
SEPT 2 — This week was an anniversary week, a week of remembrances and of forgetting. It was a rainy week, one in which Malaysians should have been proudly united in their ...Read More
Zaki Zahid
Time to get down to work

JULY 28 — The days of hard-sell politics are over. Talk is cheap, and rhetoric, even cheaper. Empty slogans and clever but meaningless sound bites don’t matter much these ...

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Ziad Razak
Sealing the deal

MAY 10 – As I write this, the three main parties which won most seats in the recent UK general election — the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats — are locked in ...

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Zubin Mohamad
Adventures in textile collecting

AUG 24 — I was very excited when the National Textile Museum contacted me to give a talk on textile collection. I had given a few talks on textiles before, first at the World ...

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