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The promulgation of a resurrected “fake news” law by the Malaysian government in early March has drawn widespread condemnation from press freedom, civil society and human rights groups. This disquiet is magnified because the new law was not enacted by Parliament, which is currently suspended (...)
My secondary school essays about Wawasan 2020 were packed with a whole load of nonsense.
Aged 15 in 1991, when then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s plan for a developed Malaysia got hastily added to the syllabus just before exams, all I cared about was giving my teachers what they wanted - (...)
The most recently revised version of the Form Four history textbook does a better job of balancing different historical narratives than its previous editions, said former PKR deputy president and Universiti Malaya professor Syed Husin Ali.
“Some people are questioning the mention of Communists (...)
The vast majority of Malaysians agree that the movement control order (MCO) declared by the prime minister last week is necessary to curb the dangerous spike in new Covid cases. However, we have to recognise that around 10 -15 percent of the families in KL, Selangor, Johor and Sabah are (...)
The Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) World Report 2021 released yesterday said human rights in Malaysia deteriorated under the Perikatan Nasional government, which it said aggressively cracked down on freedom of speech and peaceful assembly as well as made attacks on the media.
“The ruling coalition (...)
Necessary to gazette native customary lands, boost community’s participation in development, says Suhakam
KUALA LUMPUR – When it comes to land rights, Malaysia’s aboriginal people – the Orang Asli – oftentimes have it rough.
In the peninsula, those residing in Perak, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang (...)
There has been no shortage of anecdotes of racism within the property market, with minority races often complaining that they are discriminated against by property owners who refuse to rent to them on the basis of ethnicity.
However, business intelligence analyst Pingalayen Rabinthra Kumar’s (...)
“DAP’s readiness to work with Umno proves two things: that DAP is magnanimous and willing to put the welfare of the people as the main agenda. Second, the accusation that DAP is anti-Malay or anti-Islam is not true at all”
- DAP deputy secretary-general and Teluk Intan MP Nga Kor Ming
Now that (...)
A workers’ union today calls for the government to initiate an independent committee to investigate the financial standing of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF).
This came as EPF said it would need to sell some assets to fund contributors’ withdrawals from their Account 1.
Union Network (...)
There are a few aspects of YB Tengku Zafrul’s 2021 Budget speech that I found disconcerting.
The first was that my wife and I are both going to receive one-off payments of RM300 each as we are government pensioners. Does the government have a surplus of funds such that it can reward people like (...)
We, the undersigned members of the CSO Platform for Reform, are concerned with the news of a possible declaration of a state of emergency by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on 23 October 2020.
The timing and political context of the announcement cannot come at a worse time. Just this week, (...)
Selangor PSM chairperson V Selvam has called on Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari to take responsibility for the state’s water disruption and resign.
“The water crisis in Selangor has no end, and the problem of water disruption is becoming more critical.
“This shows that the Selangor state government (...)
Since its formation in 1963, Malaysia has undertaken huge reform programmes in welfare rationalisation and ease of doing business. However, there has been no substantial reform in our political system. We have more-or-less been maintaining the same political system since independence. The (...)
First, there was the infamous Sheraton Move, which led to the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government after 22-months in power.
Then came the Sabah Move as former chief minister Musa Aman enlisted defectors in his bid to oust the Warisan-led state government. This resulted in snap polls, (...)
Rohingya refugees have been at the receiving end of hate speech during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia by almost all segments of the society, most especially those from middle and upper classes in the country. A posting that was falsely attributed to head of The Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human (...)
Of late, social media has been awash with news stories of how some people live in this country. Whether it was the story of the student who had to take her exam on top of a tree or residents of a plantation with their improvised modem, the main theme running through all these stories is how the (...)
A recent survey indicated a slight breakaway among young Malaysians from conventional attitudes towards contested social issues.
Called “Malaysia’s Temperature Check 2020”, the survey polled participants across age, gender, race and household income on a range of hot-button topics.
Asked if the (...)
When it was reported on July 14 this year that PAS commissioner Rosli Abdul Jabbar proposed that Pahang follows Terengganu in implementing gender segregation in cinemas, I wasn’t surprised, but I felt a little bit alarmed.
We should not kid ourselves; we should know PAS well enough by now – (...)
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) today lambasted Local Government and Housing Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin for backing down on the local government election issue, saying it was sad that she had given up so easily while citing lame excuses.
“This shows that someone who has been so brave previously (...)
• Unusually strong statement by Malaysia takes issue with Beijing for claiming it had no right to seek establishment of continental shelf in northern waters
• Move reflects Malaysia’s rejection of China’s ‘nine-dash line’
A battle of diplomatic notes to the United Nations between claimants in (...)
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