PROPERTYMalaysiakini :: KUA KIA SOONG
- The Malaysian version of 'Kill Bill'
- COMMENT Under the guise of ‘reform’, the BN government is attempting to pull the wool over our eyes.
- Beware of populist policies, they can undermine reform
- COMMENT Like BN, Pakatan has also indulged in populism since they came into power in a number of states.
- Education is about having a choice
- COMMENT Our education system should be looking at broadening choices to cope with the various needs of our diverse society.
- What can we expect of our human rights violators?
- COMMENT Instead of recanting his use of the ISA in 1987, former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad backs a former police chief's warning on human rights.
- Is not the death penalty also barbaric?
- COMMENT Opponents of hudud on account of its barbarism must also reassess the similarly inhumane common law punishment.
- Lynas and the Malaysian Green movement
- COMMENT The people of Kuantan have initiated an assembly which hopefully, will be the start of a green movement whose time has come.
- ISA repeal: Beware of old poison in new bottles
- COMMENT It is to be replaced by two anti-terrorism laws and Malaysians must demand that they do not allow detention without charge.
- Patriots and pretenders: Ah Q's conception of history
- COMMENT The National Professors Council has got its intellectual knickers in a knot in its recent annoucement.
- The 'unofficial history' of our Independence
- Many people have been denied their rightful place in Malaysian history. A new book aims to set the record straight.
- How the BN debases commissions of inquiry
- COMMENT Broad public consultation is missing in appointing panels, as are aspects of plurality and fairness.
- Third Force must support PSM leaders for Parliament
COMMENT They easily meet the conditions of being principled, have a proven record of serving the people, and are not likely to jump ship.
- Gov't replays old gramophone over PSM 6
- COMMENT Attempts to justify the incarceration of PSM 6 with the age-old 'communist bogey' exposes BN's bankruptcy of ideas.
- Well-connected IPPs, badly conned consumers
- COMMENT We are counting the costs and still bearing the burden of the BN government's cosy relationship with IPPs.
- May 13: Hidden hands still at work
- COMMENT Today is the 42nd anniversary of May 13 - the seminal event which has defined race relations in Malaysia.
- Ops Lalang: Mahathir's autocracy at its worst
- COMMENT All fair-minded and freedom-loving people must not condone detention without trial.
- Does DAP know why caged birds sing?
- COMMENT Imprisoning animals is like imprisoning people. Politicians should be reminded freedom extends to all living beings.
- A pathetic attempt by Mahathir
- COMMENT The former prime minister tries to warp Malaysian history by trying to clean up the blemishes on his brutal track record.
- Hour of the hornbill: Time for Sarawakians to act
- COMMENT Let us not just listen to the wind of change but do what has to be done at the next Sarawak state elections.
- Stop mystifying defence contracts
- COMMENT This pretends to be rocket science that taxpayers and MP apparently cannot hope to comprehend.
- The making of a police state
- COMMENT ‘Mahathir now seems ashamed of his role in Ops Lalang. And so he should be...’
- Sorry attempt to rehabilitate 'Ketuanan Melayu'
- COMMENT Reforms to inter-ethnic unity must be the nation's target, instead of allowing various forces to rehabilitate 'Ketuanan Melayu'.
- Bakun: Empty promises, damned lives
- COMMENT Development must be based on the needs of the community and not socially destructive projects such as the Bakun dam.
- M'sian military: Years of living dangerously
- COMMENT It has been a wild ride - contracts given to incompetent companies, jets left to rot in the Californian desert and...
- Sleaze in Malaysia's defence industry
- COMMENT The 'Questioning Arms Spending in M'sia’ author details the sleaze involved in arms purchases.
- Defence Ministry goes on a spending spree
- COMMENT While the rakyat are asked to tighten their belt, the gov't spent billions on new jets, ships and subs.
- 'Mahathir's posturings don't stand up to scrutiny'
- COMMENT The former PM’s outburst is a ‘Kafkaesque distortion reminiscent of the White Paper on Ops Lalang’.
- What it takes to be the Third Force
- What exactly can it offer that’s different from Pakatan? That it is more ‘principled’ and more capable? Is that enough?