Monthly Archives: August, 2019

Law In Malaysia Permits Judicial Review On Public Interest Grounds

In law, judicial review asks whether the decision-maker considered irrelevant factors, ignored relevant ones, acted in bad faith or reached a conclusion no reasonable authority could reach (Part 2).
Analysis

Delayed Motherhood Remains Stigmatised In Malaysia

Motherhood pressure in Malaysia remains entrenched as married couples are still expected to have children soon after marriage, despite fertility rates dropping to historic lows. Siva Tangai Raju has the story
Lifestyle
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When tax laws are weapons of persecution

By Yana Najib The government is hell-bent on going against my entire family. I do not blame the people in LHDN as I know their hands...
Opinion

An Indian Story

By Mak Khuin Weng M Sugumaran knocked on my office door at MBPJ. His off-white office shirt was thin and had been washed too many...
Opinion

Najib-SRC Trial: Political Persecution Exposed

Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had utilised only RM216,078,071.78 of the alleged RM2.6 billion Saudi Arabia cash donations that were deposited in...
National

When an airport loses its value

By Hasnah Abd Rahman Some 10 years ago, I was appointed as the Media Consultant for Malaysia Airports for nearly two years. It was an interesting...
Opinion

Najib-SRC Trial: MACC Targetted Najib Despite Contrary Evidence

By Aathi Shankar It’s shocking that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) failed to nail Low Thaek Jho or Jho Low as the prime suspect behind...
National

Dear Chinese Malaysians…

By William Cheah To my Fellow Chinese Malaysians, I have always wanted to write this but never found the right time. Maybe this is the right...
Opinion

Stereotyping Chinese

By Mak Khuin Weng Disclaimer: This article is not meant to disparage any individual. It is a critique of how the Chinese as a society...
Opinion

What I think of Zakir Naik

By Wong Jae Senn Let's start with what he was alleged to have said that triggered a deluge of anger: 1. Indians in Malaysia are more...
Opinion

The strange case of 1MDB…

By Wong Jae Senn It may not have occurred to some but the 1MDB is a very strange case. Pitched as the epitome of kleptocracy...
Opinion

Najib-SRC Trial: MACC Shoddy Probe Exposed

By Syamimi Che Soh The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had allegedly conducted a shoddy investigation on the financial manipulation of former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s...
National

Najib-1MDB Trial: Najib must be given a fair trial

By Aathi Shankar Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s defence team is running out of time to prepare its case for the forthcoming 1Malaysia Development Board (1MDB)...
National

Hypocrisy and Lies, A Pakatan Harapan Saga

By Aathi Shankar It’s time for Pakatan Harapan to cease its misleading propaganda on the so-called “61 years of failures”. If 61 years of first Alliance...
Analysis