Month October 2015
Najib and MINDEF must come clean on commercialisation of military land as exemplified by the 1MDB purchase of Sungai Besi military base
Is our Prime Minister and Defence Minister playing a cat and mouse game about the plan by the Ministry of Defence to commercialise military land by relocating selected military bases located on prime land in exchange for less than market value? I raised this issue…
JPM’s huge allocation is unwarranted and unnecessary
Media Statement by Pakatan Harapan Economic Committee on 29th October 2015 (released in parliament at a 12pm press conference , 29.10.15) Pakatan Harapan Economic Committee calls on Barisan Nasional MPs to demand that the allocation for the Prime Minister’s Department be reduced, as it is…
Bajet 2016 : Bajet Najib, oleh Najib, untuk Najib
Saya sifatkan Bajet 2016 tidak lebih sekadar ‘Bajet Najib, oleh Najib dan untuk Najib’ semata-mata. Bajet tersebut antaranya menampilkan 3 intisari penting: Pertama, jumlah perbelanjaan bajet menurun buat pertama kalinya sejak tahun 2010 yang lalu. Perbelanjaan bagi tahun 2015 adalah RM 274 bilion manakala RM267…
Budget 2016: A budget “of Najib, by Najib, for Najib”
Budget 2016 is unmistakably a budget essentially “of Najib, by Najib and for Najib.” The Budget has three salient features: First, total budgeted expenditure decreased for the first time since 2010. Budgeted expenditure for 2015 was RM 274 billion while RM267 billion was allocated for…
Detik-detik akhir, gempa politik dan formula iPhone
Walau kedengaran klise, zaman sekarang sesungguhnya zaman yang terbaik dan terburuk sekaligus. Dan, pada zaman yang mengelirukan, kejelasan amat terbatas. Ada tiga perkara yang mungkin dapat membantu memahami keadaan semasa politik Malaysia: bahawa ‘kiraan terakhir’ akan segera berlaku; bahawa berlaku gempa bumi, geseran plat tektonik…
Kit Siang’s battle is not over yet
Over the course of the last half century, numerous attempts by the ruling elite to silence Lim Kit Siang had failed. The latest – suspending him from Parliament for half a year – will not silence Kit Siang’s voice for the nation. On the contrary,…
The final countdown, earthquakes and iPhone
On political realignment, Part 3 (This is the final piece in the three-part series. Read Part 1 and Part 2.) ——————————————————————————————– Much as it sounds cliché, our time is indeed both the best of times and the worst of times. In such a confusing time,…