A case for another Felda chairman
Isa: Runs FGV like a political partyIsa Samad, the former Menteri Besar of Negri Sembilan who was found guilty of money politics in Umno, is chairman of both Federal Land Development Authority, or...
View ArticleA brother in IJN and a mega, mega project
Main lobby wall, IJNSome people want people to remember Dr Mahathir Mohamad for his "mega" projects. Well, our ex Prime Minister is also responsible for building the National Institute of Heart or...
View ArticleWarnborough, revisited (possibly with a lawyer letter)
A "proud graduate" of Warnborough College, Ireland is threatening a lawsuit against a top English-language Malaysian daily for describing his varsity as unaccredited. I was told that the Phd holder, a...
View ArticleIn Malaysia, sloppy trade unions don't get busted ... they get voted out!
Malaysia Airlines flight attendants ditch in-house union for new national body. Trade unionists used to be a militant lot. The predecessor to the MAS Employees Union (Maseu) used to be feared by both...
View ArticleSingapore would have whacked them nicely ...
Here in Malaysia we have baskets of apologists for this "takde akal" couple. If they had tried the same stunt in Singapore they would have been whacked nicely, even though Malay-Muslims form the...
View ArticleBetween PAS and Mat Said ...
The mom of a friend from Kuala Lumpur is back in Terengganu for today's Kuala Besut by-election. The friend said she isn't sure how mom will be voting this time. "It's a choice between PAS and (Menteri...
View ArticleThe minority bigots (or bigot minority) who threaten our harmony
Folks who have kicked a racial fuss over the Sg Buloh primary school's changing room canteen ought to be ashamed of themselves. Them and their damned narrow-minded politicians and hate-mongering media...
View ArticleThis is justice?
The Star's Page 1 todayThe Star front-paged two court cases today. The main headline Conversion quashed is on Big Court Case No 1, where a High Court in Perak decided that the conversion to Islam of...
View ArticleDrive safe, make sure you - and others - reach kampung for Raya
On road or on rail, in Malaysia or in Spain, speed kills and it kills a lot of people. In the Spanish train crash, at least 78 people died horribly. Forensic experts had to carry out DNA tests on body...
View ArticleTanda Putera vs the New Village
When local production the New Village reaches the cinemas, I will probably go and watch it. Y'see, I'm a fan of Chinese movies, from Bruce Lee to Fu Sheng, Jacky Chan to Ip Man. if it's true, as they...
View ArticleCrime busters, unite!
An article in the Star today:Crime busters will not be intimidated, says MarahPETALING JAYA: Those attempting to silence individuals dedicated towards crime busting such as MyWatch chairman R. Sri...
View ArticleFrom Najib's Chinese Tsunami to Dr Mahathir's Chinese Dilemma
Chinese tsunami, Chinese dilemmaDr Mahathir Mohamad's thought-provoking piece The Chinese Dilemma has sparked quite a debate. Despite the fact that the piece is actually a tribute to the power "kongsi"...
View Article"Hired killers are Sanjeevan's friends: IGP. Seriously, FMT?
Screenshot 5.30am, 31/7/13: Despite a clarification, FMT's report staysI was taken aback to get a tweet just after buka puasa yesterday about Free Malaysia Today's scoop: the Inspector-General of...
View ArticleMalaysia, "Where death is cheap and staying alive costly
A Malaysian visitor to Singapore snapped this pic at a busy interchange:We know the Singaporeans are kiasus but surely there's a line of decency that good neighbors don't cross. You don't, for example,...
View Article"I am not anti-Government ..."
"... not even anti-Mohd Najib". Those who know A. Kadir Jasin well would frown upon even the hint of a suggestion that the former Group Editor-in-Chief of NSTP is capable of being anti-government....
View ArticleSo, Guan Eng thinks daddy is more fit to be DPM
Lim Guan Eng's father would have been Deputy Prime Minister today, in charge also of the powerful Home Ministry, if Pakatan had won the general elections in May. That was the promise of the New Dawn...
View Article"Unbecoming and irresponsible"
My original posting h e r eThe Singapore Foreign Ministry's director of public affairs Teo Lay Cheng wrote in a letter to The New Paper' that "the sensational headline was unbecoming and...
View ArticleAidilfitry and a bizarre Awakening
With updates on the somewhat even more bizarre move to have the book launched by Anwar Ibrahim's ... ORIGINAL POSTING:To all my Dear Readers:Selamat Hari Raya,Maaf Zahir & Batin A blessed Ramadan,...
View ArticleA joint taskforce to gun down the gunmen
“Gang 18 is made up mostly of Chinese and Indians, while 36, once active in Malay-majority areas such as Ampangan and Senawang is now dominated by Indians," he said. - Most shootings tied to gangland...
View ArticleAwakening KL launch postponed "so as not to promote further misunderstandings"
"Given the politicisation of the (book) in media reports and in an effort not to promote further misunderstandings, the official launch in Kuala Lumpur will be postponed ... We call on the media and...
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