Kua Kia Soong

Slaughtering cattle and educational values

Slaughtering cattle and educational values

NONECOMMENT The place to slaughter animals is the abattoir, while the school is where children learn to love living things.
Noh, wrong! Ops Lalang was orchestrated

Noh, wrong! Ops Lalang was orchestrated

NONECOMMENT The 1987 ISA crackdown was Umno's ploy to create various ‘sensitive' issues to deliberately cause tension in the country.
After Ringlet, expect bigger dam disasters

After Ringlet, expect bigger dam disasters

COMMENT NGOs warned about sedimentation caused by logging and other ‘development' when Bakun Dam was proposed. Now, if it overflows...
Experience and facts about police shootings

Experience and facts about police shootings

COMMENT Only an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) can deal with any abuse of police powers.
Crime law changes symptom of a failed state

Crime law changes symptom of a failed state

NONE COMMENT Bringing back detention without trial to tackle crime proves that the PM's transformation programme has failed.
For Malaysia's sake, form the shadow cabinet

For Malaysia's sake, form the shadow cabinet

NONE COMMENT It will showcase Pakatan's better quality leaders and policies compared to BN's, for the public to evaluate.
Blind spots in Education Blueprint

Blind spots in Education Blueprint

NONE COMMENT These have impeded education and national unity and, unless remedied, the blueprint will not achieve its aims.
Water crisis shows need for 'enforcement ordinance'?

Water crisis shows need for 'enforcement ordinance'?

COMMENT We need laws to deal with enforcement agencies which fail to carry out their function of protecting our water supply and environment.
Jasbir evading two key issues about Scorpene

Jasbir evading two key issues about Scorpene

Account of 'middleman' in Scorpene deal questionable

Account of 'middleman' in Scorpene deal questionable

COMMENT Jasbir Singh Chahl has not answered many questions surrounding the arms deal and murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Spike in electricity tariff justified?

Spike in electricity tariff justified?

tenaga nasional logo COMMENT The energy industry is now a mega business and the gov't has been subsidising private businesses handsomely.
'Tanda Putera', truth and reconciliation

'Tanda Putera', truth and reconciliation

NONE COMMENT It is time Malaysians understand that if we do not confront the past, we will not be able to move into the future.
Decentralising and clustering our schools

Decentralising and clustering our schools

COMMENT We should celebrate the cultural diversity that has evolved through the efforts of all our peoples, over the years.
What Malaysians actually want post-GE13

What Malaysians actually want post-GE13

NONE COMMENT ‘If the BN gov't had listened to the demands by civil society, they would not be asking us what we want after the election.’
Umno-dominated BN source of much woes

Umno-dominated BN source of much woes

COMMENT In this GE13, to rid BN's racism, politically conscious Malaysians must choose the coalition as well as the candidate. 
Pakatan and Hindraf - the missed opportunity

Pakatan and Hindraf - the missed opportunity

COMMENT Isn’t it time to set the nation on a new footing of reconciliation and reconstruction, when we are no longer divided into ‘races’?
Who are Malaysia's enemies?

Who are Malaysia's enemies?

NONE Instead of spying on their own; wasting funds on arms, the resources could be spent on providing better national security and fighting crime.
Wong Tack's political career can affect green movement

Wong Tack's political career can affect green movement

COMMENT He should resign from Himpunan Hijau as while ‘politicians can twist and turn, movements such as the green movement must go on forever’.
Tanda Putera for Malay eyes only?

Tanda Putera for Malay eyes only?

NONE COMMENT If the film is supposed to be objective, why is it only fit to be shown to a Malay audience and not open to public scrutiny?
Hindraf blueprint needs a bit of tweaking

Hindraf blueprint needs a bit of tweaking

COMMENT The rights of minorities in any society mean just that - all minorities have rights and no minority group has more rights than others.
For May 13 truth, just declassify our documents

For May 13 truth, just declassify our documents

COMMENT All the answers to the real May 13 reside in the classified Special Branch documents. But can Umno afford to let us view them?
Set up a credible process to register citizens now

Set up a credible process to register citizens now


ISA gone but BN's vindictiveness remains

ISA gone but BN's vindictiveness remains

The UEC - an interminable election issue

The UEC - an interminable election issue

NONE COMMENT 'Chinese educationists should bear in mind that of all the values, academic integrity is nonpareil'.