Charles Santiago

FREE MP SPEAKS Our role in council imposes legal obligations to rescue Rohingyas.

FREE MP SPEAKS Asean chair will be a failure if we can't spearhead solution.

FREE MP SPEAKS Rohingya corpses at our border signal solution in dire need.

It’s only one word. But it’s the dirty secret of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement or TPPA. And it’s called ‘certification’.

FREE MP SPEAKS Detaining protesters and creating fear mark of Najib’s intolerance.

It’s really nothing more than a group of powerful people who indulge in much backslapping and handshakes, sit at dinner tables pretending all is well and ignore raising crucial issues to ensure they themselves are not put in a tight spot.

MP SPEAKS The gov’t has to start regulating the prices of medicines immediately.

MP SPEAKS All these point to a gov't that is desperate to stay in power.

There is no coup happening in the country to topple the ruling government. But an outsider, reading news about a police clampdown, arrests for peaceful protests and the hauling up of people over sedition, would think there is one happening.

We talk a lot, but do very little to tackle this multibillion ringgit illegal 'industry'.

We all know the evidence against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was not overwhelming. And neither was it conclusive. In fact, as I had said before, the evidence adduced to seek Anwar’s conviction was weak.

This is to be done with the aim of ending slave labour in the country.

MP SPEAKS Minister’s refusal to declassify connotes something lurking...

It has been a long-drawn-out drama of clever manipulation, spanning more than 15 years.

OSA classification of documents will invite accusations of corruption.

It has been three weeks since the massacre started.

Close to two thousand Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Gaza conflict, 80 pecent of them civilians, most of them were women and children. Some 9,000 have been injured and almost half a million Palestinians have been displaced.

MP SPEAKS With Zuhdi and Hadi singing Umno's tune, voters want answers.

MP SPEAKS Najib needs to be more assertive in dealing with this tragedy.

From six new highways planned that will destroy water catchment areas.

COMMENT A wrong strategy may affect the lives of hundreds of thousands.

As a politician, Karpal spoke out on issues without fear or favour.

MP SPEAKS Political will and an educated public key to managing water crisis.

COMMENT It exposed the country’s biggest weakness - the culture of secrecy.

Many years had rolled by and I sat in the car, reminiscing, on my way back from the wake of Irene Fernandez. I was 18 years old and working on human and worker rights issues with the Young Christian Workers Movement (YCW) when I first met her.