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It appears that the old guards and the young leaders within Mahathir’s party – PPBM (Bersatu) – are divided over a proposal to grant themselves government contracts or projects, a practice similarly carried out for decades by the UMNO regime to enrich warlords and family members before their collapse in the May general election. […]
... written on Jan 02 2019A couple of moons ago, 93-year-old Mahathir Mohamad proudly declared that corruption in Malaysia has become a thing of the past following the change in government. The world’s oldest prime minister won the country’s general election in May on promises of fighting corruption and reforming institutions, blaming the previous Najib Razak regime for plunging the country into […]
... written on Dec 31 2018Fireman Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim has died from injuries sustained during the riot at the Sri Maha Mariamman temple in Subang Jaya last month. Since then, the ethnic Malays have been demanding that P. Waytha Moorthy, National Unity and Social Well-being Minister, be fired. The Indian community, on the other hand, is defending the minister. […]
... written on Dec 24 2018Twenty years ago, Karpal Singh, the Tiger of Jelutong, said party hopping should be outlawed as it was tantamount to cheating and deception. The former chairman of DAP, who passed away in 2014, argued that the trust of the voters is sacred, therefore, there must be honour among the elected representatives. And he had pushed […]
... written on Dec 21 2018Less than 24 hours after UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi declared he would not resign, lecturing critics instead on the party’s constitution and his legitimacy, the disgraced former deputy prime minister made a U-turn and quit. The pressure was simply too much for the Java-immigrant who had dreamt of becoming the president of UMNO, and […]
... written on Dec 19 2018Former Melaka (Malacca) Chief Minister Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik yesterday (Dec 16) announced his resignation from UMNO. He was Malacca’s 6th chief minister – from 1982 to 1994 during the era of Mahathir Mohamad. He was also the UMNO Youth Chief from 1993 to 1996. However, the 68-year-old former big gun is nothing but an […]
... written on Dec 17 2018The older the ginger, the spicier it gets – goes a very popular Chinese idiom. It means the older a person becomes, the wiser the person gets. When Mahathir Mohamad led the opposition coalition, Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope), to a stunning victory in the May 9th general election, the world was shocked and impressed […]
... written on Dec 14 2018Get your popcorn and Coke ready. The party has just begun. If you believe the police’s final estimate of the recent anti-ICERD turnout at 55,000, then there were only 55,000 gullible Malays who believed UMNO and PAS leaders. But if you believe Zahid Hamidi’s claim of 500,000 rally-goers, then there were half a million of […]
... written on Dec 12 2018The anti-ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) rally ended at 5pm yesterday (Dec 8), about one hour earlier than the 2pm-6pm schedule. Like any other rallies, the main thing people were looking at is the turnout. The number of participants would determine whether the rally is a success, or […]
... written on Dec 09 2018Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris, known as blogger “Papagomo”, has recently insulted ethnic Indians as “squatters” and urged for ethnic minorities to be stripped of voting rights. The notorious blogger, also the UMNO Youth Exco (Executive Council), was detained on Thursday (Nov 29) but released on Saturday (Dec 1) – before re-arrested again. However, […]
... written on Dec 04 2018
