Kua Kia Soong

COMMENT | The Indian Muslims asking for bumi status has thrown the gov't into a dilemma.

COMMENT | If BN and Harapan want our votes, they must tell us how they will ensure such scandals never happen again. 

COMMENT | Mahathir's credibility as a ‘born-again’ democrat is being undermined by his refusal to apologise for Ops Lalang.

COMMENT | Suaram's latest Human Rights Report chronicles these violations, as well as the stifling of freedom of expression in M'sia.

COMMENT | The concept minimises the amount of power any one person can gain over time.

COMMENT | Najib's current pursuit of funding from China and Saudi Arabia akin to Dr M's 'Look East Policy'.

COMMENT | Secularism becomes meaningful only when it refers to democratic equality.

COMMENT | An RCI can uncover who authorised these enormous sums of taxpayers’ money to be abused in this way. 

COMMENT | The key factor is the long-term dignity and empowerment of the people.

COMMENT | This is to bring to justice all former PMs to ensure they get their just desserts.

COMMENT | We do not seem to have progressed very far beyond banana republicanism.

COMMENT | The conditions of detention under Sosma render it as draconian as its predecessor.

COMMENT | Gov't already failed to demonise Suaram in 2012.

COMMENT | ‘I would hope for some sign of contrition by our supposedly born-again democrat.’

For all our languages, we can’t communicate
For all our native tongues, we’re all natives here
Sons of their fathers dream the same dream
The sound of forbidden words become a scream
Voices in anger, victims of history
Plundered and set aside, grown fat on swallowed pride.

COMMENT | My advice to Anwar: Listen not to the forked tongues of ‘trusted colleagues’, but hark the wise admonition from your daughter Nurul Nuha.

COMMENT | What it means to be a truly ‘Malaysian patriot’.

In 2008, in a knee-jerk reaction to the Bukit Antarabangsa tragedy, then-menteri besar Khalid Ibrahim issued a blanket ban on development in Class Three and Four slopes. These two categories refer to slopes with steep inclines of more than 20 degrees. He said the state government would blacklist developers and companies that failed to adhere to its directives and was even prepared to face the legal consequences of stopping the projects.

COMMENT | Civil society organisations exist to promote and protect democracy.

COMMENT | All cultures are influenced by and in turn influence other cultures.

After more than 50 years of silence in the routinised world of diplomacy, the International Tribunal at the Hague has found Indonesia guilty of crimes against humanity in the 1965 genocide and the US, UK and Australia complicit in these heinous crimes.

COMMENT | The chief minister’s innocence can only be decided by the Malaysian Judiciary.

COMMENT | 'So, Tun, it is not enough just to be anti-Najib to try and gain electoral support. We are wise enough.'

COMMENT | By not stepping down, the DAP leaders are setting a dangerous precedent.