Malaysians are entitled to ask the reason for the recent phenomenon – why only very inclusive and 1Malaysia speeches/statements before by-elections but racist slurs and very anti-1Malaysia sentiments especially after Umno/Barisan Nasional by-election victories? Two days before the Galas and Batu Sapi by-elections on November 4, 2010, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak's speech [...]

by John Baptist The Malaysian Insider November 11, 2010 I read with disgust Zaini Hassan describing in the Utusan Malaysia the tragic May 13, 1969 incident as "sacred". The Oxford Dictionary defines sacred as either "connected with God or a god; considered to be holy" or "very important and treated with great respect." From general [...]

By Dr Lim Teck Ghee | CPI Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi should be commended for stating in Parliament that the reason Chinese and Indians made up only a tiny proportion of Army recruits was because their “patriotism spirit is not high enough”. This is because he has inadvertently brought out into the open a [...]