K. Siladass. - On 20th February 2012, Lim Kit Siang, now Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang, was celebrating his seventieth birthday at Pan Pacific Hotel in Penang. Among the celebrities were Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim,…
Government U turn on the April 2009 Cabinet…
-M.P. Kulasegaran, June 18, 2014. DAP MP for Puchong, Gobind Singh, had on June 11 via his parliamentary question asked the Prime Minister to state the steps and actions taken to resolve the issues of…
YOURSAY ‘In any other country, the IGP would…
IGP hammered left and right over middle path Tell The Truth: This is another act of lawlessness! It is becoming clear that Umno and the institutions that it controls are becoming a law unto themselves. Therefore…
Custody battles: IGP must carry out his duties…
-M. Kula Segaran, MP., June 12, 2014. It is widely reported in the media that the Inspector of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Bakar has said that children who are involved in custody battles will…
NATIONAL HARMONY AND OTHER FLUFFY BILLS
-Dr Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser June 11, 2014. The National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) has drafted a few Bills to be submitted to the government: The National Harmony Bill, National Unity Bill…
YOUR SAY ‘Our problem is not due to…
NUCC: Harmony Bill not anti-Islam and royalty Vijay47: Why is everybody getting so worked up with the National Harmony and Reconciliation Bill? It would be just another piece of paper that is not going to change…
IRF: No doubt Malaysia is a secular state…
The hudud issue is a contentious and confusing one, with Malaysians arguing over whether their country is a secular state. Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) chairman and director Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa is one who believes…
Why is the Cabinet decision banning unilateral conversions…
-M. Kulasegaran, Member of Parliament, June 7, 2014. Wanita MCA National Chairman Heng Seai Kie has today called on the government to amend the laws regarding unilateral conversion of minors. She said that while the…
YOURSAY ‘The Act should apply to all sectors…
Khairy sees red over 'non-bumi' job ad Commentable: I don't understand why Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin wants to make this a big issue. For someone who seems to have benefitted from an Oxford education,…
Public Officials Should Refrain from Using Defamation Law…
- Yap Swee Seng, Executive Director, Suaram. Suaram expresses grave concerns on the defamation suit of the prime minister Najib Razak against Malaysiakini for merely publishing readers’ comments, which are unfortunately deemed by the prime…
JAIS turns quiet wedding into a national embarrassment
-Dr. S. Ramakrishnan, June 6, 2014. The phrase said at weddings, “Let he who has anything against this couple coming together, speak now or forever hold his tongue” has been given a nasty and embarrassing…
After raiding funerals, now it’s weddings
YOURSAY ‘Why is Jais so powerful that even the MB cannot stop it? ’Jais told me to change religious status, says bride Turvy: I ask Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) this one question - would it have…
IGP Abused Power in Deporting of Tamil Refugees
Suaram strongly condemns the secret forced deportation of two refugees and one asylum seekers from Sri Lanka yesterday by the government and putting all three of them at risk at the hand of Sri Lankan…
முகைதின் யாசின் கண்டுபிடித்து விட்டார்: ‘Malay intellectualism goes back…
The Malays had an intellectual culture that did not merely take ideas from Indians and Arabs and old manuscripts can prove it, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said today. Speaking at the launch of…
An aging UMNO battles the new face of…
-Dr. S. Ramakrishnan, Former Senator, May 22, 2014. A year after the most intensely fought general elections in 2013, the Teluk Intan by-election this month represents a test whether the hitherto UMNO/BN’s policy of divisiveness…
Isma: Child of the NEP
-Dr. Lim Teck Ghee, May 20, 2014. 45 years after the New Economic Policy was introduced, the harvest of the NEP is being reaped. The NEP was supposed to have a 20 year time…
Focus-A E-Learning Project for Tamil school students
This project is a collaboration between Creative Dreams International and Tamil Foundation Malaysia. This E-Learning project is vital for our Tamil schools to move towards Tamil Foundation’s 5 year mission of achieving 80% passing…
Zaid: I’m a good Muslim; I’m against hudud
INTERVIEW For many Muslim conservatives, Zaid Ibrahim's vociferous opposition to hudud epitomises a bad Muslim and is an example of what their children should not be. However, Zaid begged to differ. The former minister…
MCA “Kiasu”
- M. Kula Segaran, DAP National Vice Chairman and MP for Ipoh Barat in Ipoh on Monday, May 12, 2014 MCA’s backing out of Bukit Gelugor by election proves the “kiasu ”attitude of MCA leadership. On…
‘Rulers can be dethroned for breaking Islamic law’
Not only hudud can be implemented on sultans and Malay rulers, constitutional expert Abdul Aziz Bari holds they can also be dethroned, if they do not comply with present Islamic laws or have committed…
‘No race in forms possible, if no vernacular…
Umno-owned newspaper Utusan Malaysia said it is prepared to back the abolition of the "race" column in government forms if vernacular schools are done away with.In a editorial piece by Awang Selamat, a pseudonym used by the…
Indira Gandhi: Appeal against High Court decision to…
On 2nd April 2009, Pathmanathan converted his three children from Hinduism into Islam at the religious department in Ipoh. At the material time in 2009, the three children were respectively only 13, 11 and…
Hudud, Islamic State and Malaysia’s future
-Neil Khor, May 2, 2014. COMMENT Come June 2014, some 56 years after independence, Malaysian parliamentarians will decide whether we are going to evolve into an Islamic State as a private members bill allowing the…
“Hail and Farewell”, Karpal
-M. Kulasegaran, April 27, 2014. Kawan kawan, The sudden passing of Saudara Karpal Singh has left me with a feeling of being bereft. I feel a void in the party, in my circle of mentor-friends, in the…