TV cleansing to a fault

MAY 3 — The massive participation of ordinary Malaysians in the recent Bersih 3.0 sit-in rally in Kuala Lumpur (and elsewhere in the country and globally) was basically triggered ...

Food for thought

MARCH 16 — Reading about Prime Minister Najib Razak’s talk-of-the-town RM79,053 birthday bash and his daughter’s RM409,767 engagement does remind me of a family friend, Kah Peng, ...

Seeking lessons from the star-studded debate

FEB 20 — Saturday’s much-hyped debate, “Chinese at a crossroads: Is the two-party system becoming a two-race system?”, between Democratic Action Party (DAP) Secretary-General (and ...

When the chickens come home to roost

FEB 14 — It’s a sad and frightening commentary of contemporary Malaysian life that what essentially looks like a customer relations problem has all the ingredients to potentially ...

The elephant in the (news)room

JULY 15 — The morning after. The pro-government mainstream press splashed headlines, news reports, so-called “analyses” and photos that essentially and predictably mocked, ...