MGG Pillai

Media coverage of the recent chopper crash has highlighted issues of integration between Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah and Sarawak.

The premier wants to send a medical team to Iraq. Could we, if worse comes to worst, accept the casualties that must be expected in a dangerous adventure like this?

He moved in to drive a wedge through the divided community and his legitimacy within Umno and the Malay community is shaky.

Are all stops being pulled out to ensure that challenger Ku Li does not get a single nomination for the Umno top post?

Umno acting president Abdullah has indicated to his supporters that he would step down if Tengku Razaleigh garners 60 nominations to contest for the top post.

The possibility of a challenge at the upcoming Umno polls has rattled the premier's camp. The man they are worried about is none other than Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

Abdullah Ahamd Badawi and Najib Abdul Razak need each other as Umno leaders. But MGG PILLAI says there is inner anger, compounded by an inept and unwise move to prevent contest in the upcoming party polls.

The Malaysian Armed Forces fail their supreme commander-in-chief, who is none other than the King himself, on his official birthday. MGG PILLAI tells why.

The case of BSA Tahir, accused of being involved in a nuclear syndicate, reveals that while all are equal before the Internal Security Act, some are more equal than others. MGG PILLAI tells why.

It's that simple, torture means torture, insists MGG Pillai who reveals that he has not met a single ISA detainee who was not tortured in detention.

It is a rare country where free elections and democracy is believed and the results accepted and honoured. MGG PILLAI says this becomes more difficult in the age of globalisation, which accepts as an article of faith, that the world must be made in the image of the Hollywood village.

There comes a time, says MGG PILLAI, in every colonial and military occupation, when a simple act of defiance puts it on notice. It is downhill after that.

Malaysia's national service scheme is intended to reduce racial polarisation and build character among youth. MGG PILLAI says it is probably achieving the exact opposite of the intended effect.

EC chief Abdul Rahman Rashid's call for a royal commission to probe flaws in the recent elections and the prime minister's rejection of the suggestion could turn out to be a big blunder, says MGG PILLAI.

What is unfolding in the Middle East and in much of Africa now, says MGG PILLAI, is a revised version of the genocidal havoc the Western colonial powers inflicted before World War I.

new The roots of the present violence in southern Thailand reach deep into history and economics, writes MGG PILLAI, who says there is a solution.

While Barisan Nasional is euphoric over its best showing ever in a general election, there may be unintended consequences especially for Umno, writes MGG PILLAI.

All this election decided is that the Malaysian future is an Islamic one brought in not by discussion and negotiations with the multiracial Malaysia but as a political tit for tat for the Malay ground, says MGG PILLAI.

The spontaneous celebration after Saddam's capture is not in Iraq but in the United States, and that one is Christian and the other Muslim, underlines the widening divide of culture and civilisation in this globalised world.

The EC as an Puteri Umno employment agency is a scandal to all but EC chief Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman, says MGG PILLAI. But is everything really above board as claimed?

Why? Because one is official food, the other the food of the masses. MGG PILLAI says corruption has now got out of hand and nothing works without a liberal dose of corrupt money.

Ambitious politicians believe they need a mass following backed by a goon squad to achieve their political aim. The shadowy Federal Special Forces of Malaysia is one, says MGG PILLAI.

Singapore must ask for the stalled water talks to be resumed, argues MGG PILLAI. But she would not without some guarantees from Malaysia.

The issue over the water agreement is not about the accuracy of data or with details but with the confidentiality of documents, and the secrecy sensitive talks demand.