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,…
To Agong to Save Indians Recognize Hindraf Makkal…
A Petition to Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah By HINDRAF MAKKAL SAKTHI To Uphold The Rights and Legitimate Interests of the Indian Community in Malaysia. Your Royal Highness, We…
We must have ‘nambikei’, Najib tells Indians
- Hazlan Zakaria, Feb 7, 2012. If they want more for themselves, Indians must have ‘nambikei’, or “trust and belief” in the government, said Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. “We need a partnership…
Honourable Leadership?
Perak sultan calls for return to 'honourable leadership'. Poverty of the ummah (community) will become worse if the leaders are more concerned with building wealth for themselves and their own families and cliques, said the…
Indians have been too trusting for too long
- P. Dev Anand Pillai. It looks like the BN is learning from the opposition whose leaders have now become very comfortable with the usage of Mandarin and Tamil in their speeches to…
Nube: Maybank’s union busting action ‘evil’
Maybank Berhad, a government linked company, has again incurred the wrath of unionists for allegedly rejecting their leave application to prepare for a strike. National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) general secretary J…
Unionists protest Maybank’s sacking of two officials
-Susan Loone, Feb 3, 2012. More than 50 unionists held a colourful and noisy protest along Farquhar Street today to condemn the dismissal of two National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) leaders for participating in…
Rama or Ravana: Time to decide
-Senator Dr. S. Ramakrishan, Jan 30, 2012. UMNO, the dominant party of BN, has long treated the non Malays and non Muslims as second class citizen. With the mass influx of Muslim foreign workers the…
Happy birthday, Yong Vui Kong
- Ngeow Chow Ying, Jan 19, 2012 Today (19 Jan 2012) is Yong Vui Kong's 24th birthday. Last year, we marked Vui Kong's 23rd birthday not knowing if he would live to celebrate another. However,…
After 54 years, should Indian Malaysians still keep…
- Senator Dr.S.Ramakrishnan. Each time the prime minister is hard pressed by some scandal or allegation by Pakatan Rakyat, some offers are promised for the Indian community. Last week, Najib announced that G. Palanivel is…
Why Brother Jib can’t be trusted
-Josh Hong, Jan 20, 2012 Those who follow current affairs religiously must have heard of the famous saying of US Senator Hiram Johnson that ‘truth is the first casualty of war'. Given that…
Six New Tamil schools!
- M. Kulasegaran, MP Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced while attending the SRJK (Tamil) Kinanara Tamil school that a blueprint on how to take Tamil schools forward need to be formulated. We welcome this new…
Alternative Source of Hope for Tamil Schools
[- Jiwi Kathaiah] Some 54 years ago, the shouts of the Sanskrit word “MERDEKA” announced the birth of this Swarnabumi Malaya as an independent nation. Ever since, the schools teaching the languages of the two…
Rowdy mob attacked ABU / Hindraf ceramah!
The inaugural HINDRAF and ABU forum planned at Dewan Orang Ramai MBSA, titled "Tamatkan Rejim UMNO/BN" was violently disrupted by a gang of youths on motorcycles. The event started at 9.20 pm, and within minutes…
MTUC to go to ILO, if the “father…
-Jiwi Kathaiah, Jan 19, 2012 In its feud with the government over the issue of the amendments to the Employment Act 1955 (EA) that the government had passed in December last year the Malaysian Trades…
Khoo Kay Kim: History the mother of all…
A moderate civilisation will not be realised if history becomes an unfavourable subject neglected by students, historian Prof Emeritus Dr Khoo Kay Kim said today. Saying that history is the mother of all…
1Malaysia a marketing tool of race based parties?
- Senator S. Ramakrishnan, Jan 20, 2012. The 1Malaysia foundation, an independent NGO, seems to be busy organizing dinners all over Malaysia to gather people to meet BN leaders at a cost of between RM…
Najib endorsed threats against me, says Ambiga
[- S.Pathmavathy, Jan 18, 2012] Bersih 2.0 chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan has accused the prime minister of "endorsing" threats against her in the run-up to the public rally for electoral reform on July 9 last year.…
India gives Mahathir a lesson on true democracy
-Amused, 16 Janauary, 2012. Last month, Dr Mahathir gave a speech in India which stirred one Indian activist to retort in an open letter to the doctor, titled ‘Dr M, in India we…
Kg Medan victims: Will they ever get justice?
Justice was done to the former Lord President Salleh Abas and two of his fellow judges after their unceremonious sacking by the then Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1988. However, till this day, justice…
Anwar’s acquittal marks a new chapter, Lim Teck…
-December 10, 2012 With the acquittal by the High Court of the sodomy charge against the de facto Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, a key page in the country’s political history has been turned. Immediate winners…
IS RAJA PETRA COLLUDING WITH UMNO?
My feelings of disappointment and rage upon seeing the latest RPK collusion with the UMNO press to denigrate Anwar and Pakatan Rakyat were quickly tempered by my wife’s daily email supplement to me: Today’s Contemplation:…
Polls reform a farce without free and fair…
COMMENT Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim’s call for free and fair media coverage for the coming election strikes at the core of the fundamental flaws that have made elections in Malaysia a mockery of democracy. This…
IS THE BN SERIOUS ABOUT RACE RELATIONS?
One wonders if the BN government is capable of reform. Soon after the Prime Minister’s promises of reform on Independence Day recently, we have seen the new ISA arrests and the new Peaceful Assembly Bill.…