MCA is delusional if it thinks it can stroll in under a new leadership and redeem its four cabinet positions without fuss Pushparani Thilaganathan, FMT Hours after a news report hit the…

(TMI) - Police arrested the leader of a group protesting against price hikes as part of a probe into an alleged plot to overthrow the Government this New Year's Eve. Azan Safar, chairman of…

(Reuters) - Malaysian builder Gamuda Bhd has raised its offer to buy out co-investors in highway toll operator Kesas Holdings by 12% to RM980 million ringgit. The latest offer for the 70% of…

Court of Appeals president Md Raus Sharif said there was no reason to disturb finding of election court (FMT) - The Federal Court has dismissed the appeals over election petitions for four…

By Joseph J. Schatz, The Washington Post When it comes to human rights, few names carry quite as much weight as Aung San Suu Kyi’s. In more than two decades of facing down Burma’s former…

OHCHR, United Nations Human Rights “As it moves towards becoming a high-income country, Malaysia must ensure that growth is not achieved at the expense of the environment and the rights of…

by Foong Pek Yee, The Star A RADIO channel has used an advertisement featuring a woman’s voice lamenting on how difficult it is to make a living or “wan sik lan” in Cantonese. This is…

Trinna Leong, The Malaysian Insider Malaysia's centralised education system that controls recruitment and spending plans has contributed to schoolchildren performing badly, says a World Bank…

Eileen Ng, The Malaysian Insider A new leadership elected over the weekend could see MCA finally reviewing its decision against joining the Barisan Nasional (BN) Cabinet but analysts say…

(MM) - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today questioned the Malay community's preoccupation with the supernatural that he said were not part of Islam. This was apparent from the community's love affair…

(The Star) - The Federal Court here has granted an appeal by PKR candidate Madhi Hasan and voter Azmi Sulaiman for the Bagan Datoh election petition to be heard. The decision of the Apex Court on…

(The Huffington Post) - X Factor winner Sam Bailey has won the battle for this year's Christmas number one. The 36-year-old former prison officer sold twice as many copies of her single,…

(MM) - Umno leaders shot down today's Perkasa's threat to usurp the party as the main champions of Malay rights, saying the group had “overestimated” its strength and influence among the country's…

(TMT) - Political analysts are citing that MCA is unlikely to succeed with planned reforms to win back the Chinese community so long as Barisan Nasional (BN) Umno continues to succeed on communal…

V. Anbalagan, TMI Selangor DAP is confident that more Malays will join its rank and file as the party has displayed solid work and "walk the talk" that it stood for good governance in the…

(MM) - Two Malay-Muslim activist groups have demanded action against a Christian group for allegedly calling God in a non-Islamic context at a closed-door gathering in Klang yesterday, claiming…

(Malay Mail) - Putrajaya has warned transportation and logistics companies, as well as traders, against raising charges and the prices of goods amid the impending toll rate hike next year, the New…

(TMI) - With Indonesia preparing for elections in the new year, one underdog candidate is promoting himself in The United States as a president who would crack down on Islamist extremists. The…

(Harakah Daily) - Giving what he described as the ‘last call’ to MCA during the party’s annual general assembly last weekend, Prime Minister Najib Razak had called on the Chinese-based party to…

(TMI) - Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders took a swipe at Datuk Ahmad Maslan over the deputy finance minister's remark that the goods and services tax (GST) will cut prices of necessities and not vice…

(The Star) - Perkasa should take a different approach in defending Malay rights or risk being overtaken by negative perception of its struggle, warned Umno veteran Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.…

Lee Shi-Ian, TMI Instead of wailing, lamenting and demanding more Bumiputera participation in the economy, Malays should take a good look at themselves and ask why they have been left behind,…

Azril Annuar, fz.com Although it is high time for the government to finally rationalise its subsidies, it must still be done selectively so it will not unnecessarily burden the public. Gua…

Yiswaree Palansamy, TMI The opposition will "fail miserably and be left in despair" for spreading lies over the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) in 2015, says Deputy Finance…

Eileen Ng, TMI A property tycoon has suggested that money from sin taxes be used to help Chinese schools, as a way to fulfill MCA's annual requests to Putrajaya for more money to run the…

(Bernama) - PKR Wanita chief Zuraida Kamarudin has slammed Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng for labeling state opposition leader Jahara Hamid as racist grandmother. She said the sexist remark…

Awang Selamat trumps the police by using his intuition to determine that Pakatan Rakyat is organising the ‘Rally to Topple Government' Anisah Shukry, FMT While police remain stumped over the…

(NST) - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today announced that next year's subsidies will reach up to to RM42 billion while development expenditure will be RM49 billion. "Is there any other…

(MM) - Outgoing MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek today warned Barisan Nasional (BN) against succumbing to a two-race system that would entrench the rivalry between the Malay and Chinese…

The outgoing MCA president says that the government needs to adopt a need based affirmative action policy as the current system also helps the affluent bumiputras, instead of focusing on the poor.…