Category Archives: Comment

FINALLY, there’s some sense of rationality. Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has announced, rightly, that the Home Ministry is in the midst of revoking the ban on the memoir of Shamsiah Fakeh, a former communist. It is hard […] Continue Reading

KUALA Lumpur’s inaugural Rain Rave Water Music Festival has done more than soak revellers in Bukit Bintang. It has washed away a familiar Malaysian trait: our instinct to fear the new. Nothing will get done if there is always negativity, […] Continue Reading

By scaling down Tuanku’s Silver Jubilee and Sukma 2026, the Sultan of Selangor champions discipline and humility in the face of economic uncertainty. THE call by His Royal Highness Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah for a measured and prudent app­roach to […] Continue Reading

A legacy: Dr Ling looking at the containers parked at the Klang Container Terminal (KCT) Yard after meeting officials in this file photo from Jan 28, 2000. He served for 17 years as the Transport Minister, turning Port Klang into […] Continue Reading

Strong leaders redesign systems so productivity does not depend on physical presence. THE war in Iran may be thousands of miles away from most countries but its economic impact is being felt globally. The situation remains fluid even if President […] Continue Reading

Credit: FB Anwar Ibrahim KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 (Bernama) — Let’s give credit when it’s due. The decision of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to engage in relentless phone-call diplomacy – and many foreign visits – is now yielding tangible, measurable results. Few […] Continue Reading

WITH the world gripped by the fallout from the conflict in the Middle East, and its ripple effects on oil prices, trade routes, inflation and global security, the last thing Malaysia needs is domestic political distractions. Malaysians are aware of […] Continue Reading

KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 (Bernama) — Malaysia certainly deserves better than the race and religion rhetoric fanned by several figures who are using social media as their platform. Race and religion have long been the most combustible elements in politics […] Continue Reading

KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 (Bernama) — Democracy is noisy, but social media is noisier. By almost any measure, one would think Malaysia is in perpetual crisis and even perceived to be a failed state if social media were the only lens […] Continue Reading

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (Bernama) — It’s a big let-down for Malaysians. We would have thought that our Members of Parliament (MPs) would support the rare and defining moment to back the long-awaited reform initiative, the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2026, which cuts across political divides. […] Continue Reading