Helen Ang

Ku Li, why are you still in Umno?

People are perplexed because his ideas and aspirations appear misaligned with the present party ideology.

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Beng Hock's bank account: It's you, MACC, that's broke

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Beng Hock's death brings out the inner feelings

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Dear President Bambang, about the maids...

More than three-quarters of The Star readership polled do not believe that Indonesian maids need any rest day; it makes you wonder...

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No room for double standards

comment Manohara, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry, Gnanapragasam - the privileged are treated by the police force with kid gloves, while the underprivileged with mailed fist.

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JPA scholarships: 1M'sia, double standards

UiTM and the rest of the public universities have a combined enrolment of a few millions. It is their students who should be the focus of attention and improvement, not top scoring Fifth Formers.

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One black eye for Malaysia

comment The arrest of Wong Chin Huat is a U-turn for the Najib administration’s reforms pledges that could backfire on Barisan Nasional.

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Placating Kugan's ghost

It is just as important to examine why poor Indians land in police lock-up as how they died in detention.

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Mahathir projects and proteges

How will Najib act with regard to Mahathir’s legacy of police, Proton and PPSMI?

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Maths and science: The case for BM

Teaching Math and Science in English falls between two stools, failing to address the root cause of poor academic performance in all three subjects.

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State minding our bedroom business

In a milieu where some Malay men don’t even want to shake hands with women, sexuality is legislated and the conservatism spills over into political participation.

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What Israel can learn from Malaysia

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'Stop the killings in Gaza', how?

A sampling of the reaction to Israel’s offensive in Gaza: Rantings by Dr Mahathir Mohamed – Boycott American products! Umno Youth – Demonstrations is not our culture but we can make an exception for Khairy Jamaluddin since he’s leading foreigners (i.e. Palestinians) to take to the streets.

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Malaysia is like Israel

Malaysia is not a replica of Israel but nonetheless the two countries share some similarities in ideological and social constructs.

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Time.com made me cry

There are things besides tear gas which drive Malaysians to watery despair, the poor standards of goods and services being among them.

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Di mana bumi ku pijak

For Bangsa Malaysia to happen, it has to be Malay language first in the public domain, just as Thai and Bahasa Indonesia are to our neighbours.

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The year since November rallies

In retrospect, Hartal MSM calling for a boycott of newspapers at end 2007 was an idea whose time has come as the Pakatan Raykat and some of their state governments are now boycotting Utusan Malaysia.

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Honey, I shrunk the Indians

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Feudalism: The son also rises

Feudalism in Malaysia has spawned beneficiaries of nepotism like its scions of political dynasties and stymied the growth of the Malay-in-the-street.

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Malaysiakini wasn't born in a government hospital

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Number 132 in press freedom, jolly good!

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Keeping up RPK's spirit

Raja Petra Kamarudin is deprived of his liberty and for the first time, Malaysians are trying to walk in his shoes and imagine how it feels to be ISA-ed.

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A threat to whose security, exactly?

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Anoo-war and our eggciting times

After centuries of divide-and-rule eggism, the people of planet Oilwell began to lend their ears to opposition chief Anoo-war’s new political equation.

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