VMY logo, Siti Hasmah and police bruuuutality
Two things riled us up over the weekend: the Visit Malaysia Year logo for 2020 and the so-called interrogation of Dr Siti Hasmah Ali, the wife of the former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, over some...
View ArticleThe story behind the Indira Ghandi's story
I usually stay away from controversial issues concerning religion, be it mine, yours, or theirs. Because I believe in most cases such controversies are created, manufactured, concocted to divide us, to...
View ArticleFelda's negotiators and Lurah Bilut 2.0
You can make fun of Shahrir Samad and the "lost" Jalan Semarak land all you want but doubt the Felda chairman's resolve at your own peril. He has said (after getting back the lost land) he wanted a...
View ArticleEx-IGP's son to lodge police report against Mahathir for threats
The Mole columnist* Abdul Rahmat Omar is lodging a police report against the handler of the Facebook account Mahathir The Legend for defamation and threats to cause bodily harm. Social media owners in...
View ArticleWar against Fake news: Why we need to win it together
Msia and Spore join nations around the globe in the war against FAKE newsSome Opposition politicians have accused the Government of wanting to use a proposed new law against fake news to silence...
View ArticleTabung Haji's hibah: Why it's a gift of love
Generally, Tabung Haji depositorsare appreciative of the 2017 hibah announced by Tabung Haji yesterday. But as usual, it is the smallest who makes the biggest noise. If they can hush for just a minute...
View ArticleWhy GE14 won't be called before May
“The three months probe will start today ... Only after the review is completed will Felda be able to take disciplinary actions." - Shahrir Samad Thanks to Shahrir Samad, the Felda chairman, many will...
View ArticleCould Nur Aina Nabihah have been saved?
"Police had questioned the father in June last year after the victim's biological mother lodged a report after finding swellings on her body."Police referred the case to the deputy public prosecutor...
View ArticleSo Guan Eng and the DAP don't need the Malay votes
Updates: 4.20pmGuan Eng's tunnel vision: If t h i s is true,Dr M and Junior can't represent Malay voters lahOrignial article:21 FebGuan Eng's tunnel vision about multiracial politics In MCA leaders...
View ArticleThe truth about the Corruption Perception Index
"There is no truth. There is only perception." - Gustave FlaubertThe MACC chief (right) with Tunku Abdul Aziz, who helped found TI-M in 1998Dzulkifli Ahmad, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission...
View ArticleIt's March, Let's read The Quran!
I shall begin my m(M)arch by rejoining Anas Zubedy and his #LRTQ2018 campaign in the hope that I, myself, and me as well as my Dear Readers will benefit, sedikit sebanyak, from this dude's initiative...
View ArticleCynthia, Mejar Huan and the fight against corruption, Malaysian style
Given her reputation, one might have expected Cynthiaready-to-be-called-CIA-agentGabriel to ask Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to resign over his "strange" claim of ignorance about the RM22 million...
View ArticleSalut, Ng Jern-Fei
Jern-Fei, NST picRead Zaharah Othman's piece on PJ boy Ng Jern-Fei, 38, youngest human being ever to be made QC. It's the kind of story that makes your morning. You feel happy for another countryman...
View ArticleHarapan setinggi gunung, berderai menjadi debu
Someone asked me yesterday. what I thought of Pakatan Harapan's manifesto for the 14th general election [which may happen next month or as late as in August].The opening lines of BDB's 70s hit song...
View ArticleCheckmate Sarawak and (soon) Sabah
The establishment of Petros, the Sarawak state oil and gas exploration firm, caught many by surprise. An industry player asked over dinner last week what PM Najib Razak was up to and how Petroleum...
View ArticleWhy Felda should disclose findings of forensic audit investigation
Keep the docs but share the findings, YB240 DOCS LINKED TO PROBE. Well, I don't think people are interested in the 240 documents linked to forensic audit investigation into the Felda Jalan Semarak...
View ArticleUmno's Letter to The Editor of Malaysiakini you ought to read
Here's why the unpolished gems in Umno should be allowed to come out more often to air their views. This letter to the editor published by the Malaysiakini penned by Shahril Hamdan is an excellent...
View ArticleZahid's RM3,500 minimum wage for skilled workers
The Full Story H E R E Is a RM3,500 minimum monthly wage for skilled Malaysian workers something impossible? Two Syeds from Pakatan seem to think so and have protested via their Twitter and blog. I...
View ArticleFake news vs Real journalism
Journalists have always viewed any move to regulate the media industry with suspicion. When the Mahathir Administration was forcing the OSA down our throats in the 80s, the NUJ marched against it....
View Article3 years on, still nobody has migrated because of GST
April 1, 2015, after putting off the idea time and again for over two decades, Malaysia finally decided to join the long list of countries that have implemented the goods and services tax. 160 out of...
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