ARCHIVES 2012

Pakatan must prove to the rakyat that it can tackle national misfortunes and produce a strategy to overcome grim election possibilities now, before the general election.

Awang Abdillah, FMT

Since the beginning of the Mahathir era until today, the Umno-led government has accumulated a trail of unresolved national misfortunes, by-products of long-term bad governance and gross abuses of power.

MCA chief Dr Chua Soi Lek said the party has no time for discussions on policies because the general election was around the corner. So MCA's AGM was all about bombarding its rivals.

Leven Woon, FMT

Opposition bashing and pre-election chest thumping took centre stage at the two-day MCA annual general assembly (AGM) which concluded yesterday evening.

In March early this year, a quarry at Kampung Lombong located next to Klang River collapsed due to weak buffer zone. The incident happened at night while the workers (mostly Indonesian) were still asleep, hence as the water rushed in from the river, it swallowed the entire quarry including the squatters and of course the machinery were all submerged hundreds of meters below.

Complete with quotes from old "Not the Nine'O'Clock News" scripts, comedian Rowan Atkinson explains why he supports Reform Section 5. (Full speech.)

The Star (after dictating what the readers should read) also wants to dictate what we should watch!

The Masked Reader

Should recipients of government scholarships be grateful? Grateful to whom?

Kee Thuan Chye 

I’m asking this because former minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil mentioned recently that PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli was a Petronas scholar and yet he appeared to be going against the people who had given him the scholarship. As the Petronas scholarship is a government scholarship, she implied he was being “ungrateful”.

The 16 MCA resolutions were completely silent about secularism, Islamic state or hudud. Two of its three political resolutions condemned Pakatan Rakyat and particularly the DAP for supposedly misleading the Chinese community about PAS and hudud. But of secularism, Islamic state and hudud itself there was not a word. 

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(Free Malaysia Today) - Some 30% of Sarawak's annual budget go into a government approved agencies 'trust fund', information to which no one has access too.

There is a kind of inchoate lack of will that characterises the Sabah opposition parties, it is as if it is not sincere. Much of its leadership is doing what it does, not because it sees a point to it, but because it does not have anything else to do. 

Selvaraja Somiah

Five Filipino members of the household staff of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak were barred from their flight at Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Tuesday after a confidential agent of the Bureau of Immigration reportedly suspected them of being job seekers planning to enter Malaysia as tourists.