By P. Ramasamy In politics, it is often convenient to praise individuals deemed useful—regardless of how others perceive them or their track record. This dynamic seems especially apparent in Prime … C ...

Some Malaysian political parties (or ministries) are like family-run businesses, and Prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, is not ...

By P. Ramasamy I was fortunate to participate in the International Conference on the Early History of Southeast Asia, held on ...

By P. Ramasamy Whether the slogan is hiruk (uproar) or damai (peace), Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), despite its large membership base, is increasingly embroiled in divisive internal politics. A looming ...

All around her, excited schoolgirls were shedding tears of joy, or expressing sighs of relief after completing another hurdle in their school life; but 20-year-old Roisah Abdullah could only watch in ...

On 23 April, PKR vice-president, Nurul Anwar, told Malaysians that her father, Prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim’s reform agenda was still alive. She urged the rakyat to be patient and to continue the ...

By now, you may have heard that the alleged child molester, the MP for Arau, Shahidan Kassim, who spent a considerable amount of time in his car, with blacked out windows, dead at night (11 pm) in a ...

Published verbatim from article.. “The police have arrested the child’s mother, aged 46, and seized the vehicle involved this evening. The woman is blind in one eye while the child is mentally ...