Baradan Kuppusamy

The June 24 MIC elections - in the twilight of the party supremo's career - is clearly shaping into an indirect poll on his 27-year grip on the party.

The MIC president has turned the tables on his rival and deputy by making the contest for the number two post a battle between 'me and him'.

Film makers, movie buffs and ordinary people have expressed shock and anger at the sudden ban on a semi-musical road movie which the government alleges they are not ready for.

Waiting patiently and playing docile have been the MIC deputy president's strategy. But this appears to be backfiring.

Think MIC and the larger-than-life image of its president comes up. But party elections next month will see a transition of power.

The spotlight is once again on custodial deaths as the protracted inquest into the death of a police detainee closed with an 'open' verdict last week.

Young Malaysians are turning to the digital video camera to express their anger against social ills, question deep-rooted taboos and lift the veil off sensitive subjects like sex. Hollywood, stand back.

Non-Muslim Malaysians caught up in the complexities of Islamic law want their interests safeguarded through constitutional reform.

Though China Press rectified its error, the damage was done and the government was angered at being compelled to apologise. Heads had to roll.

Pak Lah's brand of tolerant Islam is taking a beating as people question the wide gulf between his moderate leanings and the fanaticism of the Islamic authorities under him.

Despite all the criticisms, Pak Lah insists that the East Asian Summit was a hugh success and that the East Asian community will be a reality in the future.

Abdullah is facing increasing clamour to shake up the cabinet that is heavy with the holdovers from Mahathir's era - some of them tainted by graft allegations that were investigated but never acted upon.

Citing widespread habitat destruction, a pro-orangutan campaign is targeting consumer purchasing decisions in the West.

'We arrived here with a few cooking pots and pans and three or four generations later most of us are still no better off'.

The positions of both countries hardened this week with words exchanged between leaders through their respective media.

In a landmark case, the Court of Appeal ordered a developer and the government to pay substantial compensation for trespassing into Temuan land.

If there were hints at the academia being influenced by racism, these only grew louder by the recent inexplicable sacking of yet another prominent non-Malay academic.

When Kuala Lumpur decided that it will issue work permits to the 10,000 Rohingyas within its borders, it is 'a dream comes true' for many in the stateless group from Burma.

The Malaysian government's move in recognising the Rohingyas and allowing them to stay is a temporary humanitarian measure until the situation in their country improves.

The former deputy prime minister expresses grave concern over the escalating crisis and condemned the Thai premier's claim that 78 Muslim men who suffocated while in military custody died because they were weakened by fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Under the new law, the risks include the frighteningly low standard of proof required for conviction and there is nothing to mitigate the harshness of these measures and the possibility remains that such laws may be open to abuse.

The summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Putrajaya has been overshadowed by the anti-Jewish remarks in the opening speech of outgoing Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Not since Anwar Ibrahim in 1998 has there been such intense anger and deep division over the fate of one person in Malaysia. That man is Chin Peng.