Anti-inflation protest: Activists arrested

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (ES) – Nearly sixty anti-inflation activists were arrested by the police near the iconic national oil company Petronas twin towers here today for allegedly participating in an illegal assembly.

Hindraf: Najib’s racial clash remark ’shocking’

The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) today expressed shock over Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s statement that the movement’s leaders had to be arrested to prevent a racial clash. 

Indian’s approval of Pak Lah plummets

By Andrew Ong
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s standing among the Indian community has taken a severe beating according to a survey released recently.

A Hindraf Valentine: ‘Mr PM, take my roses’

By Fauwaz Abdul Aziz
Dressed in a frilly dark-red dress and wearing pom-poms in her hair, five-year-old Vwaishhnnavi was all decked out to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. What she wanted was a ‘date’  for Valentine’s Day.

‘Korean scandal’ duo suspended

By Syed Jaymal Zahiid
The two Tourism Malaysia high-ranking officials implicated in the ‘Korean scandal’ have been suspended, according to sources today. The sources told Malaysiakini that the two-month suspension took effect starting today.

Mahathir reveals secret of picking polls date

By Soon Li Tsin
He may have retired from politics but that has not stopped former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from speculating on the date of the next general election along with every other Malaysian. 

Is a vote for MCA/MIC/Gerakan a vote for Umno?

By Nat
TheSun : Umno cannot be the DAP’s political arch nemesis and a vote for the DAP cannot be translated as a vote against Umno, MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said.

Protect your children yourselves

It is sad indeed that finally we have to acquiesce to the growing consensus that if we want our children to be safe we have to protect them ourselves. Indeed, if we want to be spared the pain, the grief, the sense of loss and anguish and not to be pricked by a sense of [...]

Letters on judges grab spotlight

By Soon Li Tsin & Chua Sue-Ann
The royal commission on the Lingam tape today zeroed in on the correspondence between Chief Justice Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah and ex-prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the appointment on High Court judges in 2001.

UMNO’s dominance is the largest threat to the survival of democracy in Malaysia

By Lim Guan Eng
“A tyrannical government is more fearful than tigers” – Malaysians’ interests can be best protected by reducing the strength of UMNO’s allies and agents in MCA and Gerakan to send out an important message of rejecting UMNO’s dominance and its unfair and divisive policies