Back Obama has won the US presidential election, defeating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The incumbent president has captured at least 275 electoral votes - more than the majority of 270 required for victory in…

-Mariam Mokhtar, October 29, 2012. Without any surgical instruments, former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad has managed to create the Malay master-race. Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’, would have been proud of him.…

"MIC and Nadarajah must apologise to the Malaysian public for their misleading conduct" says M. Kula Segaran,  the Member of Parliament for Ipoh Barat and the DAP National Vice Chairman. His statement is reproduced below.…

[-Zakiah Koya, Petaling Jaya, December 12, 2010.] History textbooks are biased and littered with errors, claim two authors and academicians. Dr Ranjit Singh Malhi and Ng How Kuen, who writes history textbooks for Chinese schools,…

The Selangor government has directed the Selayang Town Council (MPS) to issue a stop work order against a developer who is planning a condominium project just adjacent to the famous Batu Caves Hindu temple. State…

Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim maintains that there is nothing wrong with him or other Pakatan Rakyat leaders travelling by jet. Speaking to roughly 200 residents of Desa Ayer Hitam Puchong today, the PKR de facto…

-Mariam Mokhtar, October 15, 2012. The Tunku once described himself as “the happiest prime minister” when he was interviewed in 1983, by Peter Hastings, the foreign editor of the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH). Today, as…

Local educationists have repeated the claim that the National Education Blueprint 2013-2025 does not reflect Malaysia’s multicultural society. As such, 25 groups forming the Coalition on Plan of Action for Malaysia (GBM) demanded that Putrajaya…

Cambodia’s former king Norodom Sihanouk, whose life mirrored the turbulent history of his nation where he remained a revered figure, died in Beijing today at the age of 89.Sihanouk, who had been a frequent visitor…

Suaram chairperson K Arumugam has claimed to be the latest to be stopped when attempting to travel overseas. According to him, he was stopped at the Immigration counter at the low-cost carrier terminal (LCCT) at…

J Gopinath, who was alleged to have insulted Islam on his Facebook page, is currently held under remand by the police. “He will be detained till Oct 1 pending investigations. We’ll refer the matter to…

Controversial Muslim preacher Zakir Naik from India  is scheduled to come to  Malaysia and expected to address several forums across the country, including in PWTC, from September 28 until Oct 7. DAP Member of Parliament…

The Malaysian Bar does not see anything wrong with foreign funding as long as it complies with the laws, said its president Lim Chee Wee. "Even the Bar receives foreign funding which is earmarked for…

-S.Thayaparan, September 23, 2012 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."- HL Mencken COMMENT Apparently by writing for Malaysiakini, I am part of a plot to destabilise the government. Truth be…

KUALA LUMPUR: Pay TV firm Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd has set an indicative price range for its US$1.5 billion listing and lined up 16 cornerstone investors for what could be the country’s third-biggest initial public…

  We, the undersigned national, regional and international human rights organizations express our strongest protest against the Malaysian government’s ongoing harassment of Malaysia’s leading human rights organization, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) through investigations, public vilification…

-S.Thayaparan, September 16, 2012. "The country was in peril; he was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them." - Joseph Heller (Catch-22) COMMENT The reality is that Umno failed…

-S. Thayaparan, September 13, 2012. "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paulo Freire COMMENT Not much apparently. I…