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- Flowers and prayers for Aung San Suu Kyi
- COMMENT A year after her release from house arrest, political developments in Burma are moving at a frenetic pace.
- What do the Chinese really want?
- COMMENT That was the question Mahathir asked following a bad setback for BN at the polls at the hands of Chinese voters.
- Chinese schools: Growing despite prejudice
- COMMENT Despite the institutionalised prejudice against Chinese schools, Chinese education has grown by leaps and bounds.
- Earth still round, despite what bureaucrats might say
- COMMENT Here, the academia is subservient to the administration, which is more concerned with surviving political minefields than the truth.
- What kind of MPs would you get, if they are paid peanuts
COMMENT MPs are poorly paid in Malaysia, compared to many other countries and many with talent stay away from a full-time career in politics.
- An insider's guide to party hopping
- COMMENT The ins and outs of how, as then Bandar Kuching MP, BN had lured me with RM3 million to hop to their side.
- Hudud and our shared political future
COMMENT The crux of the question remains that the decision to implement hudud law, or not, is a matter for Muslims to decide among themselves.
- The nihilism of 9/11
- Ex nihilo nihil fit! This was a famous ancient Latin expression which tried to express the futility of nothingness.
- Potpourri story of Malaysian independence
- But according to the received wisdom of our written history, Malaysia was a continuation of the great Malayan project.
- Aidilfitri - a time for forgiveness, reconciliation
- The Aidilfitri celebration is a joyous occasion for Muslims as it signifies personal triumph and victory of self-restraint.
- Independence vital for panel on electoral reform
- COMMENT 'I think we will fail again at this attempt to forge a multi-party attempt at electoral reform.'
- Why we must clean up the postal vote
- COMMENT When votes can be bought and sold, what legitimacy does that lend the winning candidate?
- Socialism has vital role to play in M'sia
It serves to fight for the rights of workers, and protect employees against the exploitative nature of capitalism.
- Are the winners always right?
- COMMENT With hope, we pray Teoh Beng Hock has not died in vain, and that the Bersih 2.0 rally will herald a new age to come.
- Revisiting The Republic
- COMMENT Socrates would've approved our aspirations for change - and to find for ourselves, a definition of justice.
- Thousands of ordinary folk stand up for change
- Knowing that it was likely they would be tear-gassed, shot at with water cannons and arrested, they still came.
- Yellow is sunshine
- COMMENT It denotes happiness and joy but on the other, yellow is the colour of cowardice and deceit.
- Bersih rally an acid test of our democracy
- COMMENT We must be given a chance to show again that we can gather in large numbers, without causing any bloodshed.
- Bersih rally, again!
- COMMENT The July 9 rally is significant in a budding democracy like M'sia and some hardship is unavoidable.
- Mat Sabu in BB - a mission not impossible?
- Can the Chinese voters in Bukit Bintang support PAS will be the million-dollar question for the new Malaysia.
- The general election: A fulcrum for change
- COMMENT The country's polls history since independence has been by and large generally peaceful, a sign that the democracy still has a bright future.
- A matter of faiths
Malaysians, while believing in their own God, must not negate the rights of others to their own beliefs.
- In search of a new paradigm for M'sian politics
- COMMENT Politics should not be left to politicians, especially now that a two-coalition system is in trouble.
- Middle East uprisings a blow to Al-Qaeda
- Osama’s death may not spell the end of terrorism, but the Arab world’s democratic uprisings may well dampen its fire.
- Sex and politics make strange bedfellows
- Politics in Malaysia has sunk to a new low with photocopies of the sex video handed out on the street.
- Time of reckoning: The next general election
COMMENT Without the possibility of a change in government, there can be no true democracy in any modern polity.
- Agik Idup, Agik Ngelaban!
- COMMENT At the height of the Sarawak election campaign, I received an email from a young Malaysiakini reader.
- Art of war in the Land of the Hornbill
- The Special Branch and the Information Department have become the eyes and ears of the ruling party.
- Can S'wak pull off a political tsunami?
- From the looks of it, the 'people power' seen in the Arab world is unlikely to take hold in the coming state election.