I uploaded a facebook post two days ago showing a handshake between two hands, one depicting MCA’s logo and another with China’s flag. MCA formed a “Belt and Road Centre” and “MCA People’s Republic of China Affairs Committee” in the hope to serve as a…
Investments from China is now a hotly debated subject after Chinese state-owned entities bailed out 1MDB, and in the wake of the mega deals announced during Prime Minister Najib Razak’s visit to China in November 2016. Broadly, we welcome China’s investments, just like we welcome…
DAP Johor calls on Menteri Besar Khaled Nordin and Johor State Government to instruct Majlis Bandaraya Johor Bahru (MBJB) to sack Iskandar Region Development Authority (IRDA) immediately from managing the RM 200 million Sungai Segget project which caused another flood in Johor Bahru yesterday. It…
BR1M (one Malaysia assistance programme) is no substitute for holistic economic policies that improve the welfare of the bottom 60% and the overall economy. It is foolish of UMNO ministers to think that BR1M receipients do not know this. UMNO ministers and big shots seems…
The 14 deaths of the Pagoh Bus Crash on 24th December 2016 shall not die in vain like all those involved in bus crashes before them. Life and death is a serious matter and one that involves so many deaths should be treated more seriously…
The next General Election will see starkly opposing battle cries presented by UMNO and the Opposition: UMNO uses fear as its theme while the Opposition creates hope; UMNO plays the race card, the Opposition speaks for the 99%. Despite being very long-winded, the speech by…
Johor Menteri Besar Khaled Nordin’s speech at the State Assembly yesterday was a telltale sign of our times: that even the more studious Khaled Nordin is now desperately launching racial attack against DAP, suggesting that the DAP fights for only Chinese and ignores the political…
The Prime Minister’s Department will receive an allocation of RM 15.94 billion in 2017, of which RM 4.92 billion is for Administration and RM 11.01 billion for Development. The allocation is unnecessarily huge when most other ministries, especially health, education, welfare and policing suffer substantial…
The shock election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of United States is a timely reminder for Malaysia that we need a new paradigm to face up to the new realities of the world economy. First, one of the clearest outcomes of the election…
The election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States is probably the most important watershed event globally since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. What lessons we draw from this election matters. Did Trump win by stroking racial sentiments…