Commentary

By WONG CHUN WAI Chin Peng and CPM rebels who fought government forces during the Emergency were from the era of colonialism and class strug...

The events surrounding the alternating identity of Perak’s Mentri Besar seem troubling, but the legal procedures are what our courts and Con...

By AZIZ HASSAN A simple question no doubt but which answer you agree with depends on how you evaluate things in life. Is the Astro pay-to-vi...

By KARIM RASLAN Despite a spate of well-orchestrated walkabouts and some sensible government decision-making, many Malaysians – especially n...

By KARIM RASLAN In more mature markets, the newspapers are the forum for debate and analysis, while the Internet is the news hub, churning o...

There is politics, and there is politicking over politics. Apparently, the latest example of this is the prospective Penanti by-election. P...

By JOCELINE TAN It was not exactly a dream team but new Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak did get a group that he can confidently de...

By RASLAN SHARIF Something needs to be done to stop the rot eating at the roots of a once near-invincible party, and this cannot be reiterat...

Umnopolitics is about to take centrestage. The spotlight is on the contest for the deputy presidency amid expectations that on March 24, Dat...

By MARTIN KHOR The financial crisis started in the West and now developing countries like Malaysia are being affected in many ways through t...

Yesterday's demonstration against the use of English in the teaching of Mathematics and Science has been described as an exercise in fut...

Politics in Perak has reached a more urgent level after the drama of an open-air “emergency assembly sitting” but there is no sign that eith...

With Malaysians being increasingly caught in political partisanship, we need to keep a cool head and not get over-emotional. A scumbag. And ...

By AZMI SHAROM Teacher of Law Sultans and Rajas are constitutional monarchs and have powers determined by the Federal Constitution. I wish t...

The economic downturn should be an opportunity to re-examine the New Economic Policy, government procurement, the pricing system and the sys...

The move by Barisan Nasional to wrest power in Perak has raised many questions about the role of the monarchy in Malaysia’s democratic syste...

The new Perak state government faces an arduous task of coming out with better policies and strategies to win over the hearts of the people....

Even as bad news hog the economic front, Malaysians are having a stimulating time keeping up with the antics of certain politicians doing th...

While frogs are simply built to jump, another resurrected species brings new meaning to the word when with a mere hop and skip they can topp...