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Freeing Education from Politics – by Zairil Khir Johari

There is one particular issue in this country that never fails to incite fierce debate, with passionate arguments – …

Yang Berhormat at Your Service – by Ivy Kwek

As a child, I used to look up to those with titles in front of their names.“Yang Berhormat, Dato’, …

Mr. Speaker, make up your mind!

By Ivy Kwek The recently concluded House of Representatives sitting has seen to be a season of cutting salaries. …

Parliment as the institution of democracy deserves a bigger budget

By Ivy Kwek Standing at RM214 billion, the 2011 budget is the largest budget that Malaysians have received thus …

No more Arms Procurement in 2011?

By Foo Fei On October 14, Defence Minister Dato’ Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi stated that the Ministry of …

PDRM – More money, more effective?

Malaysians heaved a collective sigh of relief in September over the departure of one of the most notorious policeman …

Slow Death for MSM Papers

By T.K. Tan Recently, the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) of Malaysia released the half yearly circulation figures as …

Gender Justice

A recent conference organised by the Good Governance and Gender Equality Society (3Gs), a Penang-based non-governmental organisation examined the …

End of the road for UMNO?

The result of the Permatang Pasir by-election showed that UMNO-Barisan Nasional is at its wits’ end. The party is plagued with internal power struggles at the grassroots level with local warlords vying for what is left of their traditional power base in Permatang Pauh.

Where has all the money gone?

Over the past 33 years, our cherished national petroleum company Petronas has contributed half a trillion ringgit (that’s RM500,000,000,000) to the Malaysian government and in the past nine years given RM15.2 billion to Terengganu.

How have these sums been spent?