LETTER | Let me congratulate all MPs in the 14th Parliament, with the exception of the 11 MPs who were not in Parliament when the vote was taken. This new anti-hopping bill is a clear and unequivocal statement of what the rakyat thought of in terms of core values when we voted in our MPs at […]
LETTER | I refer to TK Chua’s letter “What is Gerak Independent up to?” to the editor on Feb 18 and would like to respond. Allow me to simply speak for myself and explain my reasons since TK Chua fails to understand the “what and why of Gerak Independent (GI) candidates”. I served 33 years in the public […]
Two independent and separate events in England and Chicago were very telling; even for Malaysians a world away. Both involved the process of judicial review which found public officials guilty of criminal negligence through a specific demand for accountability by citizens. The first was the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, and the other was the Chicago […]
Time headlined a story for their April 3 issue entitled, ‘Is Truth Dead?’ Please see the picture below. This column will focus on ‘The Death of Common Sense’, a book by a former Harvard Law School dean, and reflect on today’s consequences of such a death of both the idea of objective truth and therefore also, […]
The word ‘Malay’ is an English etymological word and not a ‘Melayu’ one. I do not think I am wrong; unless some linguist tells me so from the field of hermeneutics as to why. Therefore, my conclusive argument is that Malaya, and Malaysia, are both at root, English words; exactly as it is with the […]
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