Muhyiddin is not stupid. Anyone who could orchestrate the unprecedented, once-in-a-lifetime, ethically impossible task of the Sheraton Move could not be deemed stupid. Although to the public, the chief architects of the Sheraton Move are called traitors, within government, they…
Other than being the longest-reigning ruler in the world, Emperor Qianlong’s biggest achievement was marrying Lady Fuca as his wife. She was unlike any empress in Chinese history: Frugal (wearing flowers on her head instead of expensive jewellery), humble (caring and fair…
Bill and Melinda Gates are no strangers to audacious goals. Their foundation’s website states that their mission was “fighting poverty, diseases, and inequity around the world”, arguably the three biggest problems of our time. With ample funding,…
It took Najib a long time to accept his defeat on 9 May 2018. On Malaysia’s longest night, the Election Commission’s snail-paced announcements were slow and painful, and UMNO’s fallen soldiers were invisible in the…
Very few people in this country would have the privilege of being handpicked by Dato’ Onn Jaafar to run as an election candidate. And no one but one woman could say that she has the…
The UMNO General Assembly is an arena of superimposed masculinity. It is common to have delegates using the platform to shout out their beliefs, on the premise of representing the voices of the party grassroots,…
In 1971, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a person with three names. For the first 20 years of his life, the recipient was known as Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, a son to a cashier…
How much money is enough to make you lie? Not much. Famous behavioural scientist, Dan Ariely, specialises in the study of worst human behaviours. He believes that given a chance, most humans would act worse than what you…
Everyone laughed when MCA announced it could start accepting non-Chinese into the party, but I wasn’t one of them. Granted, MCA is not accepting non-Chinese as full members; only associate members without voting rights. Many criticisms point to…
Defection is nothing new. In fact, it has become a fabric in our political sphere that we have come to anticipate and expect to happen. I remember, at the height of defections in March last…