Boxing day thoughts

Art HarunCrime rate is down. Really? I was at a Christmas dinner and I met an acquaintance. His face was badly swollen and his lips were cut. His cheeks and chin were littered with fresh wounds…

Protect Rape Victims, NOT Rapists!

Have you ever wondered how and why the rich and powerful get away with crime? Google HERE provides 294,000 links to many sites that demonstrate much injustice seen all over the world. What is more…

Who’s Next in MCLM?

With Sreekant Pillai joining MCLM and together with Malik Imtiaz in the fold, the present Pakatan Rakyat government should take them into serious consideration to avoid the repetition of the…

Getting the MRT to work

By P. Gunasegaram, Managing Editor of The Star At a total cost of as much as RM50bil, we must get this right or pay very dearly FOR the construction sector and some companies, Christmas time has well…

Does Pak Lah Know Or Not?

By Another Brick In The Wall At one of the four weddings I attended yesterday, I bumped into one of the Political Secretary of former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Hurdles to overcome

By Lim Sue Goan, Malaysian Mirror I have exchanged views with a few people who are interested in politics recently and they believed that the next general election might be held in May or June next…

Conditions for a Workable 2 Party System

By batsman It seems that Malaysians like to copy the west blindly. For a 2 party system to work, it is not just necessary to have 2 opposing parties. If it were, Malaysia would have fit into such a…

Survey: Most Malaysians back Najib

By The Star Most Malaysians continue to back Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak despite a drop in his approval rating since May, according to the latest opinion poll released by the Merdeka…

Rais: 84pc understand 1 Malaysia

By Bernama Eighty-four per cent of Malaysians understand the 1 Malaysia concept, more than the 75 per cent targeted, Information, Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said…

TV chief entry to PMO fuels polls talk

By The Malaysian Insider Umno-linked Media Prima Bhd’s television chief Datuk Seri Ahmad Farid Ridzuan has been seconded to the Prime Minister’s Department effective January 1, fuelling speculation…

BN now mulls snap polls in Q2 2011

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani, The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 — The ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) is considering snap polls in the second quarter of 2011, contrary to speculation that the…