Dina Zaman

Who speaks for Islam in Malaysia?

NOV 11 — Some time ago I was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for a radio feature, and was...

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Brian Yap

So who’s the controversial one?

JULY 31 — Does it not strike anyone as strange that a filmmaker best known for making some of the...

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Chua Tee Yong

Nationalisation of toll operators not viable?

JULY 15 — There seems to be a misconception regarding my proposal to nationalise PLUS, the company which operates our...

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Tengku Razaleigh

A taste of what’s to come

OCT 11 – MCA is now leaderless. Both the President and Deputy President of MCA have been rejected by delegates...

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Fahmi Fadzil

Hari-hari Terakhir Seorang Mufti

DEC 10 - Semalam saya terbaca dalam sebuah laman web berita yang Mufti Perlis, Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin, telah...

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James Chin

Tony, where is your heart?

NOV 9 — Dear Tony (if I may, or Dear Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes) I have been meaning to write...

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Muaz Omar

Umno’s politics of engagement

NOV 21 — “If I were Chinese, I, too, would not support the MCA.” Those words will ring in the ear of every single MCA member for a long time...

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Joan Lau

Books that take you on a journey... literally

NOV 8 — Reading can take you places and I am not talking about sharing the adventures of the author as you turn the pages of a travelogue or memoir....

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K Anand

From hopeful to hopeless, this could be the week for Reds

NOV 21 — If there is one thing that Rafa Benitez has learnt over the past two years, it is...

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Khalid Jaafar

A national buffoonery

AUG 20 — "All great world-historic facts and personages appear twice. The first time as tragedy, the second time as...

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KF Seetoh

Gem of an eatery by a gem of a friend

FEB 14 — Each time I make a trip to KL, I am reminded of how lucky I am to have just that few handful of good pals (I am...

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Khoo Kay Peng

Penang needs an economic plan, not tigers

MARCH 27 — I am amused by the tiger talk in Penang. In actual fact, we need a forwarding-looking and...

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Yusseri Yusoff

A devil’s life

JULY 28 — We live in hard times. Hard times, indeed. What with the tanking economy and a political arena seemingly occupied by idiots[1] on one side and morons on...

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Wan Saiful Wan Jan

Dua puluh tahun robohnya Tembok Berlin – rayakan keranapan sosialisme!

Nov 8 — Pada 9 November 2009, genaplah dua puluh tahun runtuhnya Tembok Berlin. Tembok Berlin dibina atas arahan Parti Kesatuan Sosialis (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) yang memerintah Jerman Timur. Puak...

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Ahmad Zaki Zahid

Time to get down to work

JULY 28 — The days of hard-sell politics are over. Talk is cheap, and rhetoric, even cheaper. Empty slogans and clever but meaningless sound bites don’t matter much these days....

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Zaidel Baharudin

PAS dan negara Islam

NOV 18 — PAS merupakan parti pembangkang yang terbesar dalam arena politik Malaysia, walaupun mempunyai jumlah kerusi yang paling kurang di dalam Parlimen dan nampak seolah-olah terpinggir dari segi kepimpinan...

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Amin Iskandar

Dari rakyat untuk rakyat

NOV 9 — Malaysia kini berada didalam proses untuk mencapai kematangan politik dimana pertentangan diantara dua kuasa politik iaitu Barisan Nasional (BN) yang dicabar oleh Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Pertentangan diantara...

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Nathaniel Tan

Keadilan ala Pasar Gelap Malaysia

NOV 14 — Malaysia harus diisytiharkan sebagai “Shopping Desitination of the World.” Ternyata, apa pun boleh dibeli di sini —...

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Cheah Sin Ann

Jeremiah Mahadevan

On cow heads, Nina Simone and 15 Malaysia

OCT 12 — I remember being back in school, in my then-still-small hometown of Banting, seated alongside many other little sons and daughters of the land and being imparted with...

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Malik Imtiaz Sarwar

The Texture Of Justice

MAY 12 - It was to be expected. As news of the decision of the High Court in the matter of Nizar v Zambry filtered out, many were quick to...

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Hanipa Maidin

Nizar will win the appeal unless...

NOV 12 — “Show us any provision in the Perak Constitution empowering the Sultan of Perak to sack Nizar”. That was fundamentally the gist of the submission made by Datuk...

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Suhaimy Kamaruddin

What, me a banker?

NOV 13 — Someone recently suggested that I write a thorough analysis on the current economic situation, which I promptly dismissed with LOL and ROTFL. You can ask me about...

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Tunku Aziz

Najib does not disappoint

OCT 10 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak does not disappoint. He is true to his values whatever they might be. He upholds his principles with messianic zeal. His principles are...

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John Lee

This time, they got it right

NOV 21 — When I first read about the decision in Tan Boon Wah’s case, I almost teared up. I rarely get emotional over events in the news, but human...

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Leslie Lau

Good ol’ days? It’s never been this good

SEPT 24 — I spent a few useless hours this week listening to old television theme songs on Youtube. And listening to the old tunes — from “Rockford Files”, “Magnum...

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Liew Chin Tong

Middle ground is battle ground

SEPT 27 — Going by our newspapers, Malaysia seems to be on the path of polarisation, politically or otherwise. But a 10 per cent vote swing either way will finish...

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Shebby Singh

Only two games in, fans are baying for blood

AUG 21 — I thought I should wait till the mid-week fixtures were out of the way before sharing my opinion on what has been an outstanding start to the...

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Wan Hamidi Hamid

Never mind punk rock, here’s the Buzzcocks

NOV 10 — I did not cry although I wanted to. I know it probably means nothing to many of you out there but it was a memorable night for...

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Zulkifli Sulong

Pegawai kerajaan dan kerajaan

OKT 1 — “Tahu tak, kerajaan negeri Kelantan yang ada ini dapat bertahan hampir 20 tahun kini kerana telah menubuhkan...

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Ziad Razak

Professor Obama teaches Reform 101

SEPT 28 — By the end of this year, US President Barack Obama would either be seen as a legislative...

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Aidil Rusli

The art of letting go

NOV 16 — Some bands mean more to people than others. By more, I mean that some bands have this...

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Justin Ong

You got robbed because you don’t love cops

NOV 15 — Why do our politicians say the darnedest things? For instance, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein was...

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Nizam Bashir

When bells peal and muezzins call

OCT 21 — When a Malay wedding is over in some kampungs in Malacca, the custom is to welcome the...

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Andy West

‘Hansen v Hughes: Part 2’ as Reds host City

NOV 21 — Alan Hansen: former Liverpool defender and captain, now television pundit. Mark Hughes: former Manchester United striker, now...

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Hafidz Baharom

Schools, sex and race politics

NOV 11 — I went to primary school at the dawn of the 90s. In fact, it was 1990. I...

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Sazlin Daud

Teaching English to future Muslim visionaries

NOV 14 — Six months into our Cairo sojourn, I had offered my time to conduct pro bono English language...

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Angela K

Progressing from Noah’s Ark to a shoebox

NOV 6 — Some years ago, I unintentionally offended someone by referring to her property as a “flat.” She snapped...

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Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad

Overcoming our democratic deficit

NOV 7 — I am currently in Britain meeting Malaysians and talking to them about politics. I was also recently...

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Nur Jazlan

Najib’s Umno: is it really back to basics?

OCT 19 — Umno must return to its roots to be an all-inclusive party. That was the main theme of...

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Hafiz Noor Shams

A return to basics

NOV 17 — One simply cannot underestimate the power of education in shaping society. It has an awesome capability in...

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Hsu Dar Ren

PKFZ now! National interest first!

NOV 4 — In the triple jump, a jumper has to accelerate, hop, step and jump. The step must not...

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Khalid Samad

Persoalan kuil Seksyen 19 dan tindakan Pewaris

OGOS 30 — (Artikel ini diterbitkan pertama kali pada Jan 10, 2009) Kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) telah meninggalkan banyak perkara...

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Shannon Teoh

The rules of the game are for...

NOV 18 — For Liverpool, perhaps the most significant loss against Birmingham was not the two points, but the moral...

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Ooi Kee Beng

What Najib seeks is 1BN

Nov 8 — It may be saying too much to claim that Malaysia’s major political parties are self-destructing. But they...

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Jerome Martin

The Apprentice: MCA

Nov 21 — In last week’s episode of The Apprentice: MCA, things got even worse for the Third Force as...

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Vazeer Alam

A dearth of death inquests

JAN 26 – Custodial death often brings with it an air of suspicion. The suspicion may be real or misplaced;...

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Alice Nah

A happy childhood, free to dream

NOV 20 — Children embody our hopes. We seek for them brighter futures than we visualise for ourselves. Mothers and...

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Ambiga Sreenevasan

Towards a golden age of discourse

OCT 17 — Fair but robust criticism of legal judgments and laws is a wholly acceptable practice. In every democratic State it is a frequent occurrence. It is what makes...

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Yusuf Martin

1 Merdeka

SEPT 2 — This week was an anniversary week, a week of remembrances and of forgetting. It was a rainy week, one in which Malaysians should have been proudly united...

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Zan Azlee

I want my YouTube!

OCT 18 – I’m sure you’ve heard the news – one billion customers served! Just like that popular fast food franchise company that has a clown as its number one...

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Praba Ganesan

Najib and shadows

NOV 19 — Despite the deep political divides in the country being perfect for Machiavellian rule (Don’t you wish you...

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