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The TIME magazine definition of "Person of the Year" is someone or something that in the course of the preceding year has for bet...

As if you don't already know, most of the unhappiness index in Malaysia today is connected to the prices of consumer goods and services...

First part of the wet dream is unquestioning, grovelly and servile obsequious obeisance by the minority-   The second part involves inte...

People in positions of public power and public trust must always remember to be patient and consult with stakeholders and affected communit...

If you have no Pride, you will have no Shame.

" If it ain't broke, don't fix it ". That is the old saw that has been a vital piece of wisdom for engineers for a long t...

As Ministers for media and communications go in Malaysia, there are 2 standouts. One is Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie who was a good friend of Tun...

It must be annoying and confusing for many to see people who are charged with serious breaches of public trust, corruption and assorted fin...

The current debate about the United Examination Certificate (UEC) that applies to private Malaysian schools where the medium of instruction...

The Malaysian political narrative is so badly twisted that we will not see it changed for many decades to come. For the foreseeable future ...

The wise leader does not make a show of holiness or pass out grades for good performance. That would create a climate of success and failu...

Risen Jayaseelan's piece in The Star today raised my ire. Maybe it's because I haven't had breakfast yet. Maybe it's becau...

Okay, Mahathir is truly an old man. He is a sprightly 94 going 110. But, to fixate on his age would be a major mistake when trying to analy...

The words are plain and easy to understand. Article 1(1) of ICERD sets the tone and it is a general proposition. Read it- 1. In this...

A part of me has always been intrigued and in bewildered awe of the United Kingdom; England, in particular. How a small, nondescript island...

The news of the arrest of Carlos Ghosn by Japanese prosecutors for having allegedly understated his income between 2010 and some years afte...

The current Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir, is clearly a centrist. In his previous 22 years as PM he had shown a clear preference for a very s...

The first point Dr M made in his first official address to PMO departments this morning, was the need to keep the 3 branches of government ...

UMNO, MCA and MIC needs to deconstruct and reconstruct. By his initial public pronouncements, Khairy Jamaludin seems to be one of the UMNO ...

Isn't it a strange expression? His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. It is a reminder of the constitutional system that Malaysia adopted ...

I presume this will be done in due course, but, a little more haste would be good. Let's restore Malaysia's internet access to wher...

There has been a large amount of reportage by so-called analysts who have expressed concern over the Pakatan Harapan election promise to di...

Malaysians are entering into a new era with the victiory of the Pakatan Harapan coalition. This is a good thing. Congratulations to all o...

I'm not sure why, but I just cracked up when I read an article in FMT that reported on the minister responsible for communications and...

The origin and purpose of ancient structures such as the Pyramids, Stonehenge, Nazca Lines, Easter Island and so on is lost in time. We hav...

Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires widespread intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves in...

One of the things I realised in recent times is why the geriatrics who were my superiors when I started work were so cynical. Time, age and...

The problem with social media is that there is no filter. In the era of print and licensed broadcasting content had to undergo natural filt...

On February 8, 1996, at the U.S. Library of Congress, Bill Clinton, as the U.S. President, signed the telecommunications law that pretty mu...

I was really and truly minding my own business when, in my late teens, I suddenly found myself surrounded by sisters who had embraced monot...

Now, more so than ever, the wisdom and insight of Viscount James Bryce quietly screams to us. Bryce wrote in 1901, thus- "To most ...

Malaysia has non-leaders leading it nowadays. That is the root of the problem. Whatever said and done, race relations and religion must...

Nazri Aziz is calling it as he sees it . Unvarnished. Brutal. What he said are facts. This is the current reality. Other than UMNO none...