TK Chua

LETTER | From any angle, offering a special discount only to Hokkiens is a bad idea.

LETTER | He is right on the need for tolls, but wrong in how he once dished out toll concessions.

LETTER | When a gov't is virtuous, it will do all the right things, including fostering unity among citizens.

LETTER | But the issue is us, the people, for being unwilling to put our faith in younger or new people.

LETTER | The amount of cars on the road is determined by necessity, and the lack of public transport.

LETTER | M'sians should choose what is best for their children, and not be guided by parochialism.

LETTER | 'I wonder how the complaint would have been handled if the complainant wasn’t Bung?'

LETTER | Have we thought through the consequences before introducing fines for improper language use? 

I think Najib is handling the international audience the same way he handles rural Malaysians. 

The pledge will not help fight corruption nor enhance the political capital of opposition states.

We need to ask ourselves why Malaysians are so easily divided and exploited. 

Depravity is a dangerous indulgence to fall into. It may cause us to lose our minds. We become stupid, not knowing we are.

It is disheartening to note that the opposition parties are now fighting who among their respective leaders would become the prime minister (PM) should they win the coming general election.

The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) are very much in the news lately, due to the arrests of many its personnel, among them senior officers, on suspicion of corruption and protecting drug and crime syndicates.

Recently PAS has proposed that only a Muslim can become the prime minister (PM) of this country. In response to that, Lim Guan Eng, the DAP secretary-general and the CM of Penang, was reported to have said that the non-Malays/Muslims have never wanted to be PM to begin with.

I read a piece on the PM accusing the opposition of making many U-turns, suggesting that U-turns are signs of inconsistency and lack of resolve.

I am neither a Muslim nor a Hindu. But as a Malaysian, I am entitled to provide some views on Zakir Naik and the controversies surrounding him.

First we have PM Najib Abdul Razak who said that the cost of living in Malaysia is still one of the lowest in Asean. Then we an economist from Universiti Malaya who said that inflation in Malaysia is largely due to external factors such as the prices of oil and the Donald Trump phenomenon.

I refer to the proposal to introduce Employment Insurance Scheme (EIS) by January next year.

After watching Raja Bomoh’s latest video on ‘North Korea’, I have kept the bewilderment as well as amusement to myself. The reason is simple; I was not brave enough to express my views on it, given the potential sensitivity involved.

I am no foreign affairs expert, but am old enough to have read about China during Mao Zedong’s era, the former Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iran just post-Islamic revolution, Cuba under Fidel Castro and North Korea under various Kims. It is never easy to deal with them, and it is best that we treat the current problems with North Korea carefully and seriously.

It is almost comical to read the current debate between ‘freehold’ and ‘leasehold’ at Forest City, Johor. More than that, the debate has now extended to ‘reclaimed land’ and ‘existing land’.