SABAH Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal’s disclosure that the governor’s budget for his pilgrimage entourage is over RM1 million is mind-boggling.
IN 1994, during the 100 day Rwandan massacre, the single story the world heard was of genocide. Every news feed on Rwanda was about the mass slaughter of the minority Tutsis by...
AS our world is engorged digitally, we have been rendered physically far, from people, emotions, feelings and everything else that would depict us as humans. Time is the most valued...
TWO notable personality traits of the late US President George H. W. Bush (Bush Sr) was his proclivity for doing what was right rather than politically expedient, allied with a...
I BELIEVE that many Malaysians are still surprised and taken aback by the unexpected announcement by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad that local elections will not be held....
WHEN the Prime Minister’s Office announced that the Pakatan Government will not ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD),...
IN principle I do not support demonstrations and rallies, although I am told they allow the voiceless to be heard. Which is what the 812 rally did last Saturday.
THIS was perhaps Malaysia’s most eventful half week with the buildup to Saturday’s anti-ICERD Rally. In the middle of the week the prime Minister had despaired over pervasive corruption...
FRANCE is under siege. Some 90,000 security forces are being deployed across France with particular attention to always combustible Paris and Marseilles. Armoured vehicles are...