Anil Netto

Malaysian civil society groups are worried that foreign consultants and donor agencies would treat health care as a commodity and patients as 'consumers'.

After years of waiting in vain for improvements to the public transport, disgruntled quarters are mulling legal action.

Apart from the questionable justification for Bakun, environmentalists are worried about the polluting effects of these aluminium smelters.

new A deadly combination of drugs is creating a new addiction and may lead to fatalities.

A controversial video clip appears to be the strongest evidence of police abuse since images of the black eye inflicted on former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim flashed around the world.

Campus elections, which once enabled students to get immersed in the political system, have turned into a farce.

Malaysia's media fraternity - already led by the politically-connected - is seeing ownership consolidate even further.

There is a persistent debate over whether ethnic-based affirmative action policies are still helpful as Malaysia's open economy grapples with the challenges posed by globalisation.

Will the surprising frank report of the special commission on the Malaysian police force give premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's image the fillip it needs?

A slew of books have been banned, confiscated or monitored by the authorities while their authors have come under political fire.

Catholic activists and clergy are worried that the church under the new pope would become more insular and clamp down on movements working with the poor.

Unionists say that the diplomatic flap over undocumented migrant workers in Malaysia and the failure of erring Malaysian employers to pay the wages due to them could have been avoided, had these workers been encouraged to join local trade unions.

Critics accuse the government of delaying the distribution of badly needed emergency supplies to survivors in Kedah and Penang.

Malaysian groups are reacting with outrage at the grisly deaths of many Muslim protestors in southern Thailand, They express concern over the escalating violence and call for sanctions against the country.

Factional politics within Umno may render any efforts by Pak Lah to rid the party of corruption futile.

After six years of virtually ignoring him, Malaysian newspapers are faced with a quandary on how to cover his release.

Hopes of reforms were raised last November when Abdullah Ahmad Badawi took over as prime minister but this now appears to be fading fast.

No one who challenges the leadership status quo in Umno is going to get very far, as the latest such experience has shown.

It has become a battle of wills for supporters of Anwar Ibrahim and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as the former's health took a turn for the worse this week.

Malaysians detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) are keenly awaiting the outcome of 'test cases' filed in court, in challenging a law that allows for detention without trial.

The detainees assert they were in no way involved in any militant group and say the accusation against them is false. They want to go to court to prove their innocence.

The just-concluded campus polls saw university authorities closely monitoring candidates, trying to prevent them teaming up as a slate or alliance. Here's a sampling of what took place in USM in Penang.

Suhakam continues to receive brickbats as it struggles to repair the country's human rights image three years into its creation by the government.

Seven Burmese workers working in Penang were repatriated on June 4. The reason? Possibly for complaining to the authorities of poor living and working conditions.