Side Views

The brilliance of Zahid Hamidi — Aerie Rahman (loyarburok.com)

MAY 20 — Move aside Khairy Jamaluddin and Saifuddin Abdullah — we have a new poster boy for change within the Barisan National power structure. Not used to flamboyance and only recently baring the fangs of radicalism, Zahid Hamidi has sparked a debate on a new form of politics: migratory politics.

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Recent Articles

Malaysia is, as we are — Pravin Pillai

MAY 20 — On May 6 we awoke to a haze that enveloped the nation.It began some hours before when the prime minister-elect blamed the narrow victory of his party to the ingratitude shown by the Chinese ... Read More

The de-racialisation of Barisan Nasional? — Yang Razali Kassim

MAY 20 — On the 44th anniversary of the May 13, 1969, racial riots that gave birth to it, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) displayed signs of being in existential angst.Though it won the 13th general ... Read More

Can NS give meaning to a Singapore vision? — Ong Weichong

MAY 20 — The logic of National Service (NS) in Singapore is clearly elucidated in policy and how we train our national servicemen. Sheer logic alone, however, cannot persuade. Any dialogue on NS must take ... Read More

On a sustainable Malaysia — Yasmin Rasyid

MAY 19 — I am sitting here on a fine Sunday, reflecting on the front page news in the Star (May 19th 2013), "Hills in Cameron Highlands ‘raped' at an alarming rate", and I was compelled to write this to ... Read More

You are racist if you are not racist — conspiracytheor1st

MAY 19 — You will never read from anywhere that brand Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King as racists.Abraham Lincoln pawned his life to fight against the enslavement of the African ... Read More

PPP, RIP? — Irfan Husain

MAY 19 — An old Native American saying gives this sage advice: "If you are unfortunate enough to find yourself on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount immediately."Sadly, I did not follow this ... Read More

The low-down on fighting graft ― Kunjuraman Karuppan

MAY 19 ― The focus on Transparency International-Malaysia chief Datuk Paul Low’s appointment as a minister in the Najib Cabinet can only mean one thing ― that everyone is depending on him to ramp up ... Read More

Whither Dr M? ― Zaid Ibrahim

MAY 19 ― We know that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had little say in the naming of the new Cabinet. This wasn’t because he didn’t try. Indeed, he was rebuffed by the prime minister who suddenly felt strong ... Read More

Where personal opinions really reflect the official position ― Callistus Antony D’Angelus

MAY 19 ― Newly-installed Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is now seemingly backtracking on his statement asking people who don’t accept the results of the general elections to leave the country. He is ... Read More

Soi Lek’s wrong bet ― Tay Tian Yan

MAY 19 ― Up till this second I still do not have much idea why Dr Chua Soi Lek made the decision of not joining the Cabinet.And why the presidential council, central committee and general assembly all ... Read More