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In the spirit of columnists Dean Johns and Sim Kwang Yang , allow me to also contribute a piece about the role of Malaysiakini in the journey to improve governance in Malaysia. This column is therefore dedicated to the hard-working team at Malaysiakini , both real and virtual, shareholders and stakeholders, producers and consumers, and to the virtual citizens of Malaysians Incorporated worldwide […]

More than a year ago I had developed an anti-thesis to another made by a scholar who had argued that most Malays in Malaysia were Muslims first and Malays second. I had argued that the opposite was the case. To me, the particular scholar’s conclusions, although maybe theoretically valid and based on her sampling method, […]

The Universal Declaration of Human Right; crafted after the two world wars, sought to ensure and guarantee the rights and privileges of all human beings, regardless of the state of operation and their place of being. That is why it is first of all called Universal. This means it covers the whole wide world; including […]

Malaysiakini first reported the now infamous Ahmad Ismail will not apologize for his racial remarks. NST then further reported that the flip-flop ‘Prime Minister of all Malaysians’ had changed his mind and asked Ahmad to apologize. In the meantime, Najib apologized, probably speaking for himself, and probably also as the BN Whip, as it was reported that he […]

In his regular column in The Sun , Citizen Nades was perplexed why the “bureaucrats behaved as they did” in the now infamous Klang High School case of “closing down of the non-Muslim religious associations.” I am not; as these are precisely the type of public servants who become Little Napoleons and zealots who impose their worldview […]

It’s absolutely unacceptable. That is how I feel, and that is how surely the former law minister Zaid Ibrahim felt – before resigning. Any individual with the requisite moral courage and conviction about human dignity and democracy would do the same. Therefore, with due respect to our Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar -who happens to […]

The incorrect problem definition often leads to the wrong solution. Therefore, in the course I teach at Universiti Malaya, we spend an inordinate amount of time talking about \”problem definitions\” for this very reason. The ISA was a solution to a real problem: in the 1960s Malaya was faced with the genuine threat of an […]

I first read and wrote an article about ‘paradigm shifts’ in the NST in 1992 premised on such thinking propagated by a paper originally written by the late Tan Sri Noordin Sopiee of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS). I had then also documented my reaction to a book launched by the then […]

Pak Lah made the right decision, but is still moving in the wrong direction. Pak Lah did the right things, in the right way, for the right reasons when he first became prime minister after Tun Dr Mahathir resigned. In fact, he will do down in history as the prime minister with the highest amount […]

The Conference of Rulers has assured all Malaysians a rightful place under the Malaysian sun. Therefore, it is only right and proper that the Hindraf case be now referred to them because the government sees their arguments and actions as against the integrity of the nation. They remain non-integrated with integrity. Whereas, most Malaysians see […]