Budget 2018: Promises to Indians delivered
Time and again, we have heard the Opposition harping about how the Indians in the country have been marginalised and how BN allegedly always overlooked their needs. However, if we look carefully at...
View ArticleBajet Pakatan Harapan, bajet ‘mitos’
Kerajaan Barisan Nasional telah membentangkan Bajet 2018 pada 27 Oktober lalu di Parlimen. Ketika membaca ucapan bajet, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak kelihatan yakin dan selesa ketika...
View ArticleDon’t feel bad for Mahathir
Can you afford personal bodyguards? Neither can I. I’m reasonably certain, however, that Mahathir and his family are well able to hire a small army of them. So, spare me the righteous, gratuitous...
View ArticleAda harapan lagikah untuk Pakatan?
Pembangkang mulakan tahun 2017 dengan penuh gaya dan keyakinan, tetapi nampaknya sisa-sisa tahun ini akan dilalui dengan sukar. Baru-baru ini, hanya 200 orang berkumpul di Dataran Merdeka untuk...
View ArticleThe political lining of Penang’s flood
There are no words to describe the pain and misery our fellow Malaysians endured during the recent flooding disaster which caused devastating damage in Penang. Everyone was caught off-guard and even...
View ArticleMuslims and Malays face discrimination too
As a Malaysian Chinese, I’m only too familiar with the many resentments nursed by my kin since the early days of independence. We bitterly describe ourselves as ‘second-class citizens’ and, at first...
View ArticleThe Mahathir-Mugabe connection
There’s an age-old saying: you can judge a man by the company he keeps. How then are we to judge Mahathir’s long-time friendship with Robert Mugabe, the freshly ousted president of Zimbabwe? If theft...
View ArticleWhat’s so great about the Petronas Twin Towers?
I’m a proud KL-ite born and bred. One of my favorite pastimes is strolling through KLCC Park, under the watchful gaze of the Petronas Twin Towers – the RM4 billion brainchild of a certain former...
View ArticleMahathir & Anwar: Partners in crime?
How can we tell if Pakatan leaders are genuinely committed to reform, and they’re not out to con us? Simple, we observe their reaction to the following: Mahathir and Anwar, the dynamic duo of the...
View ArticleCan Umno change?
If the year were 1999, I’d almost certainly be voting for DAP. Anything but Umno. Growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, I was always repulsed by Umno’s shameless cronyism and corruption, ego-driven...
View ArticleFrom Tissot watches to returning awards.
With the general election looming, things are getting desperate for the Opposition as they grapple with numerous uncertainties and unresolved issues. This will be the first time they go to battle...
View ArticleWhy is Pakatan helping Najib?
The 14th General Election should’ve been a ridiculously easy win for Pakatan. Powered by unfiltered social media, anti-government populism is surging globally, making long-ruling establishment parties...
View ArticleMahathir: Anugerah terhebat atau beban buat Pakatan?
Apabila Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad menubuhkan parti PPBM dan mengumumkan menyertai Pakatan Harapan (PH), bersorak sakan penyokong pembangkang kerana percaya bekas Perdana Menteri paling lama dalam sejarah...
View ArticleThe Year That Was – 2017
From the formation of new political parties, street rallies, re-elections and Tissot watches, 2017 was truly a colourful year for the nation’s politics. Amidst all this, the opposition continued to...
View ArticleWhat Mahathir and we can learn from Star Wars
Awkward is how I would describe it. A few weeks ago, Mahathir took a widely publicized trip to the cinemas, perhaps eager to prove that he’s a man of the people – see, even dictators can enjoy movies...
View ArticleMahathir: Father of all U-turns
“I admit many left or stopped supporting UMNO when I left. Now that I am back, and if they think that my struggle is good, they too must come back to UMNO.” – Mahathir Mohamad, April 2009 Forget the...
View ArticleWhy is Pakatan so afraid of #UndiRosak?
#IniKaliLah. Pakatan officials have total confidence in their candidate for prime minister. They gloat that the ferocity of attacks against Mahathir suggests BN is terrified of him. Fantastic. So, why...
View ArticleThe difference between Najib and Mahathir
It’s tempting to see Najib and Mahathir as a tired choice between Coke and Pepsi. Lots of decent, thoughtful folk argue there’s no difference between the two men – they’re both irredeemably repulsive....
View ArticleCan government deficits and debt be good for Malaysia?
Those who complained about government debt don’t understand the simple concept of one’s assets are other’s debts and one’s debts are other’s assets. This works exactly the same in public finance....
View ArticleStop playing politics with the EPF
What the hell is wrong with investing overseas lah? As an EPF member, that was my first thought when people were losing their heads over the fact that our pension fund was investing in US...
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