PROPERTYMalaysiakini :: NEIL KHOR
- Will Najib share power with Pakatan?
- COMMENT Will he propose a national unity government? As far-fetched as that may sound, it might be the only thing left for BN to do.
- An urban tsunami - what now for BN?
- COMMENT It is time for national reconciliation. For those who have won should do as much soul-searching as those who have lost.
- Time for Malaysians to reclaim the country
- COMMENT Come tomorrow, do we want reform by way of the ruling coalition? Or real change through a pair of new hands?
- Is love still in the air?
- COMMENT Real change can only happen when we learn to sing our own song and when the scales have dropped from our eyes.
- The rakyat sees a new moon rising
- COMMENT ‘Overnight, thanks to the ROS, the impossible has happened. M'sians now believe DAP and PAS have forged a genuine partnership.'
- Defenestration of the MCA
- COMMENT It is a party whose president is not ‘winnable’ enough to be fielded for the polls, and it continues giving up seats to Umno.
- End of the era of egomaniacal leaders?
- COMMENT Think again, if you see Margaret Thatcher’s death as the end of an era of divisive politics and egomaniacal leaders.
- Let MCA and Gerakan 'eat eggs'
- COMMENT To many Malaysians, the feeling is that the BN component parties such as MCA and Gerakan represent 'a nation's trust betrayed'.
- Keeping safe in epic and historic polls
- COMMENT At the end of the day, if the nation’s interests are put ahead of personal ones, Malaysia will be in good hands.
- Penang's contrarian society
- COMMENT In Penang, if one has an idea and shares it, family and community will shoot it down; later these ideas become more robust.
- Hindraf and the crisis of conscience
- COMMENT It has played a catalytic role in waking up M'sians to the failure of the BN formula of race-based policy-making.
- GE13 a high-stakes game
- COMMENT Malaysians may have to take a gamble in the coming general election and BN is telling us, ‘better the devil you know’.
- Why BN is in trouble ahead of GE13
- COMMENT After more than 50 years of governing Malaysia, the world’s longest-ruling political coalition is in unchartered waters.
- Are you really in charge, mister prime minister?
- COMMENT More tragically, it shows clearly that the PM has not been able to carry his party and the civil service with him.
- Is it possible that the BN can really lose?
- COMMENT We should prepare for the worst. A BN win with a smaller majority and with a few more states going to the opposition.
- Middle-class being priced out of property market
- COMMENT Please think out of the box and think around it to come up with solutions and not just diatribes against your political opponents’
- The pity of Tunku Abdul Rahman
- COMMENT 'Dr Mahathir is right when he warns Malaysians, and especially Malays, to vote carefully in the GE13.'
- Listen, listen, listen: M'sians, lend me your ears!
- COMMENT Paper qualifications do not make a person more worthy of respect if they do not translate into an educated and civilised mind.
- The final lap before GE 13
- COMMENT We should never allow any coalition to dominate Parliament. Two-thirds majority will also give too much power to politicians.
- The angel you don't know...
- COMMENT Pakatan Rakyat has plenty of questions to answer on how it will manage and rule the country better than the BN.
- The devil you know
- COMMENT If the BN does not change things radically, we are headed for ‘failed state status’. This is Part I of the author’s article.
- Desperado BN making us cry in exasperation
- COMMENT Most of the problems are associated with the desperate, poorly coordinated and brainless antics of the party in power.
- Mahathirism dead, but not gone
- COMMENT The excesses associated with the 22-year tenure of Dr Mahathir Mohamad as prime minister remain unchecked.
- Dr M, Internet genie can't be put back in the bottle
- COMMENT An unforeseen consequence has occurred - the new generation has aspirations beyond car, condo and cash.
- Scandal-ridden BN on the ropes?
- COMMENT The electorate has to judge whether the BN with its self-created scandals, can be trusted with 'our future'.
- The strange case of Professor Aziz Bari
- COMMENT It is obvious minister Khaled Nordin does not understand the very essence of academia. This is bad for the public universities under his charge.
- A budget for the polls battle ahead
- COMMENT ‘The auditor-general's report will be released at some point and all the feel-good feelings will surely dissipate'.
- Avoiding a 'second defeat' at Bukit Kepong
- COMMENT A PAS leader’s remarks about Mat Indera and Bukit Kepong have sent the ruling elite into a tizzy - here’s why.
- Why Penangites won't tolerate losing Penang Hill
- COMMENT The hill represents the very real multi-generational attachment that Penangites have with their island home.
- The revolution now has a name: Bersih
- COMMENT Retracing the sorry tale of the BN's major Bersih bungle from militant silat warriors to Najib's final act of skipping town.