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,…
Threats, Racism and Lies: A Regime Hanging on…
- Charles Santiago, Member of Parliament, June 29, 2012. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr said, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity". I wonder what ruling…
MIC youth upset with Thaipusam remark of PAS…
-Senator Dr. S. Ramakrishnan, June 25, 2012. PAS vice president Salahuddin Ayub has denied uttering derogatory words on Thaipusam festival or Hindu religion which MIC youth took offence with. He had said that mass gathering…
Documents: Dr M ‘consented’ to Scorpene misdeeds
-John Berthelsen, Asia Sentinel, June 25, 2012. A two-decade campaign by the French state-owned defense giant DCN and its subsidiaries to sell submarines to the Malaysian Ministry of Defence has resulted in a long…
Malaysia Mentioned 3 Times at UN Human Rights…
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Assembly and Association, Maina Kiai’s reporting session resumed today where he mentioned Malaysia on numerous occasions in his closing speech. Maina Kiai affirmed his intention to continue constructive dialogue and…
Mother tongue schools: Blueprint for integration
-Dr.Kua Kia Soong, June 22, 2012. COMMENT Having been part of the mother tongue education movement for most of my adult life, allow me to offer a blueprint for national integration which should be a…
Sue KL mayor instead, says Suaram
PETALING JAYA: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) should sue Kuala Lumpur Mayor Ahmad Fuad Ismail instead of Bersih leader S Ambiga for alleged losses incurred during the April 28 rally for clean and fair elections.…
Deaths in custody – the hurt lock-up
-S.Thayaparan, June 16, 2012. "Jail's no home for the truth." - Carandiru COMMENT Three years is not a long time. Here in Malaysia, it's just a year short of how long a regime can legitimately…
Irshad Manji’s books: Is our faith so fragile?
-Sarajun Hoda Abdul Hassan, June 15,2012. IrshadManji, an Ugandan-born Canadian author who claims she is a faithful Muslim, was in Malaysia recently to launch ‘Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta', the Malay translation of her book ‘Allah,…
It is not RM180 million, it is change…
Prime Minister Najib’s comment at the MIEC Forum last sunday that the Indian business will be eligible for RM 180 million by various mechanism through MIEC clearly does not address other substantive issues affecting the…
The great Umno man’s burden
-S. Thayaparan, June 11, 2012 Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. - Andrew Jackson COMMENT When…
How Malaysia’s Leader Is Damaging His Reformist Reputation
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak appears determined to give himself a political black eye. On June 13, government prosecutors will haul into court 10 leaders of Bersih, a coalition of civil society groups campaigning to…
Ananda Krishnan hires CIMB to advise on pay-TV…
Malaysian tycoon Ananda Krishnan has mandated CIMB Investment Bank to advise him on the initial public offering (IPO) of Astro All Asia Networks Plc in a deal expected to raise around US$1 billion (RM3.17 billion)…
500,000 visitors expected at Global Indian Festival
The 10th Global Indian Festival (GIF) which started on June 6, 2012 was officially launched today by Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob in Kuala Lumpur. GIF has successfully grown both in…
First French submarines, now Australian banknotes
-DEAN JOHNS COMMENT BN's politicians and cronies have been on a national and international corruption spree for decades. So it's nice to see signs that, despite current Prime Minister Najib Razak's expensive efforts to portray…
9 YEARS WAITING FOR JUSTICE – death in…
On 12 May 2003, a young healthy teenager, Ulaganathan a/l Muniandy, aged 19, was picked up by cops under the Penal Code Section 302 and was later charged under the Emergency Ordinance (EO). He was…
German Businessman ok, but not stateless Indians
- Senator S. Ramakrishnan, June 5, 2012. In was reported in the media that the prime minister offered permanent residence status to a German businessman on the spot upon request. The German lived in Malaysia…
Kit Sinag: Hisham, your duty is not to…
Press statement by Lim Kit Sinag, June 6, 2012. Priority duty of Hishammuddin as Home Minister is to give full support to Suhakam inquiry into Bersih 3.0 rally and dissolve the Hanif Panel instead of…
How public lands get stolen
-KJ JOHN, June 5, 2012. In 1985, I bought a house from SPPK Sdn Bhd located at Lot PT16589, mukim of Damansara, district of Petaling Jaya. At that time, we had sought the views of a…
DAP Forum: Malaysian Indians lagging behind
A forum to discuss the social and economical problems faced by Indians in Johor was organised by Johor DAP Gelang Patah branch on May 26, 2012. Around hundred over local Malaysian Indians participated in the…
I’ve ‘very little’ knowledge of Project IC, says…
-S Pathmawathy, June 4, 2012 Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today skirted the issue of citizenship being given to illegal immigrants in the 1990s, asserting that he had “very little” knowledge on the matter.…
PM told to explain Terasasi’s role in Scorpene…
-Nigel Aw, June 3, 2012. The government must explain the role of Terasasi (Hong Kong) Sdn Bhd that has allegedly sold Malaysian state secrets to a French company in the RM4 billion Scorpene deal, said…
Umno Youth ‘disturbed’ my family, says Azmin Ali
PKR deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali accused Umno Youth members of harassing his family at their Ampang home last night, after anti-graft officials were directed to reopen a RN30 million corruption probe on him. "The…
Questionable foreign-born citizens in voters roll
-ONG KIAN MING, June 2, 2012. COMMENT The Election Commission (EC) produced a booklet entitled ‘The Truth Behind the Accusations and Lies towards the Election Commission' on its website. In this booklet, the EC…