Before Umar Faruq Abdullah, there was Surendran Shanker. Before Surendran Shanker, there was SivabalanSubramaniam. Before Sivabalan Subramaniam, there was A Ganapathy. Before A Ganapathy, Gunasegaran Rajasundram, Dhamendran Narayanasamy, there was Chandran Perumal. At 47 years…
Phoon Chiu Yoke used to be a kind person. She “sponsored orphans and sent money to them… she also sent money to us,” her father said. But something changed after she went to China, and…
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…
If he could, Dr Noor Hisham would choose not to appear in front of public. He dislikes being the center of attention, rejects the “hero” label, and he has not made a press conference in…
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…
When his name was called, prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin took confident and slow steps up the stage to present his speech. The Dewan Bankuasi at Sabah’s State Administrative Centre was undoubtedly the grandest in the building, that was also the tallest…
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…
The government and I live in different worlds. For the government, it is always party time. The Covid-19 pandemic and the Emergency declaration hasn’t affected the government’s optimism – we shall still grow at 6.5% to 7.5%,…
Every bus ride to Tenom is a lonely journey. You don’t get to see much; the tarred roads are surrounded by green hills, high and low. The bus chases the clouds that are reaching for the sun, and…
PAS loves power. Don’t get me wrong; PAS does not love power more than your next politician. They are willing the game of sacrificing your principles, trade your horses for benefits, and understands that a route…