Ti Lian Ker This is not a coincidence. It Is a warning. It is not coincidental that BN chairman Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi warned component parties “not to regret leaving BN because they will not be accepted back” when officiating the Indian Progressive Front (IPF) general assembly today. While this warning was purportedly aimed at…
BY: S HARIKRISHNAN Last night (Dec 16) MIC held a pomp event at a leading venue in the federal capital to celebrate party president Tan Sri SA. Vigneswaran’s 60th birthday celebration. The bow-tie event was attended by more than 1,500 party leaders, businessmen, friends and other well-wishers of the president with singers from India as…
JAMES CHAI The truth is that no matter how hard its local state representatives worked, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) could not have averted the total wipeout in the recent Sabah state election. Most analysts have pointed to a “Sabah for Sabahans” sentiment to explain why the East Malaysia state resoundingly voted for local parties….
HEMA SUBRAMANIAM In conjunction with World Human Rights Day, I write not only as a citizen, but as a witness and survivor of the same cyberbullying and online abuse incident involving the late influencer Esha, and as someone deeply alarmed by the total failure to protect victims of digital violence in Malaysia. Over the past…
JAMES CHIN Analysts, party leaders, political influencers, and every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a phone and a social media account, have performed their own autopsy on Sabah election results. That state election, which concluded last week, saw an almost wipe-out for peninsula-based parties. Pakatan Harapan (PH) only managed to secure one seat through PKR,…
S SHASHI KUMAR It has been three years since the current Pakatan Harapan coalition government, led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, came into power. Yet Malaysians remain disappointed, dissatisfied, and increasingly betrayed by the unfulfilled promises and hopes raised during GE15. While the Prime Minister continues traveling abroad to speak about humanity, women’s…
Datuk Seri Ti Lian Ker I have just been asked by ASTRO to comment on UMNO supreme council member Datuk Dr Puad Zarkashi stating that the so-called Barisan Nasional (BN) big brother will continue to working with DAP in the next general election. The Johor state assembly speaker went on to remark that MCA can…
One wonders whether Umno understands the idea of a political coalition. Yesterday the MCA declared that it would pull out of the BN coalition if the coalition continues backing Pakatan Harapan once the current term ends. MCA is not the first. MIC has already passed a resolution to quit the BN. BN is made up…
LIM GUAN ENG Some people believe that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar has not done enough. We have heard the people’s voices and will take their views seriously. We will convey this feedback to the Prime Minister and urge the government to fulfil its promises as soon as possible — to do enough, and do…
Galvin Lee Kuan Sian Malaysia and the United States signed an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) during the 47th ASEAN Summit, a bilateral pact that formalises market-access terms and signals closer technical cooperation between two long-standing partners [1]. For a country that relies heavily on trade, the practical question is simple: what does this mean…
