Sim Kwang Yang

Politics in Malaysia has sunk to a new low with photocopies of the sex video handed out on the street.

COMMENT Without the possibility of a change in government, there can be no true democracy in any modern polity.

 

COMMENT At the height of the Sarawak election campaign, I received an email from a young Malaysiakini reader.

The Special Branch and the Information Department have become the eyes and ears of the ruling party.

From the looks of it, the 'people power' seen in the Arab world is unlikely to take hold in the coming state election.

The UN can now take military action against Libya, while Japan's nuclear reactor crisis is deepening.

COMMENT As countries scramble to Japan’s aid in the earthquake tragedy, it is timely to reflect on our shared humanity.

COMMENT The marvels of IT are shrinking the world to the extreme discomfort of dictators everywhere.

COMMENT Another despot is counting the days remaining of his political life.

COMMENT Many, who watched the tumult in Egypt, have asked whether such change can happen here too.

COMMENT An awe-inspiring rise by ordinary people against an old and tired regime.

COMMENT Malaysia had just come into existence. Kuching was then a two-horse town and nobody was really rich.

COMMENT Unfortunately, the sanctity of the vote is never widely respected even by the voters themselves.

In Malaysia, the idea of a people united by a common history, language and a shaped destiny has come under severe strain.

COMMENT My experience of Christmas is always punctuated by the memory of my Christian friends in Bidayuh villages.

COMMENT The reality in Sarawak has defeated the notion that a master race must flourish at all costs.  

COMMENT Or how in a bizarre twist in the Dayak-majority state, the racially dominant became the political minority.

The just ended PKR congress could just point the way to a new and better direction for the country.

COMMENT It's a one-sided conflict between 'progress' invading native customary land and the original occupants.

 

COMMENT In the 90s, Semilajau villagers fought and won a long legal battle against a conglomerate bent on taking their land.

This Sarawak village, once a land that lacked nothing, face a flood of woes after being resettled to make way for Bakun dam.

COMMENT With a warrior past, the Bidayuh of Sarawak will fight for every inch of their native heritage...

NGOs are helping the Penan with pre-schooling and healthcare in remote Sarawak where the government has failed.