ARCHIVES 2011

When taxpayer's money are at stake, Perak MCA leader Tan Chin Meng says Pakatan will impose another gag order.

(Free Malaysia Today) - The gag order imposed by DAP on its internal squabbles reveals the party’s hypocrisy, said Perak MCA secretary Tan Chin Meng.

An economic programme that fails to substantially improve the income of the majority while actually increasing the number of the poorest citizens is scandalous, says Anwar Ibrahim.

(Free Malaysia Today) - Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim shrugged off the Najib administration’s criticism of his income gap forecast.

(Malaysian Digest) - PKR leader Badrul Hisham Shahrin who was detained by police yesterday over allegedly seditious posts on what he claims is a “fake” Twitter account suspects that the act was the work of his adversaries from within the party.

A pro-Umno blogger predicts doomsday for the opposition party if Azmin Ali becomes the president.

(Free Malaysia Today) - PKR will be doomed once its deputy president Azmin Ali takes over the top post, predicted pro-Umno blogger Anuar Mohd Nor.

Contrary to Umno’s wishful thinking, the opposition pact is much more than just a marriage of convenience

The BN cannot win even a single Chinese-majority seat. Only the opposition matters in such seats, and doubly so if Indian and Chinese voters are treated as one voting block. DAP can easily end up as the party with the largest number of seats in Parliament.

Joe Fernandez, Free Malaysia Today

(The Star) - Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has ordered his office to probe allegations that one of his aides received bribes.

(The Malaysian Insider) - DAP has approached several Malay figures including at least two Umno veterans in a bid to reverse eroding support from the community after repeated accusations of being anti-Malay from the ruling party.

In this last week of 2011, we will be re-publishing selected stories carried in FMT throughout this year. We find that these stories still remain relevant in the present context.

Critics accuse the Umno-led regime of spending millions of ringgit on decorative rhetoric and ceremonial reforms without making any real effort towards substantive institutional changes that would bring about compliance with democratic principles and respect for human rights and needs.

Stanley Koh, Free Malaysia Today

In our political system, the government, federal or state, may dissolve the state assemblies or Parliament at any time to allow it  to go back to the voters and put its fate in the hands of the people it claims to represent. One calls elections when it is beneficial or advantageous to do so. This is true for both state governments and Federal Government.

By Zainul Arifin Md Isa, New Straits Times

Perceiving himself as 'important' PAS' Hasan Ali is an 'accident waiting to happen' because he has always done things with the hope of catching Umno's eye.

He does not understand that there is a fine line between holding on to your principles because you genuinely believe in the rightness of your cause and the holding on to your ‘principles’ because it serves your vested interest to do so.

CT Ali, Free Malaysia Today