PETALING JAYA: An Orang Asli activist has disputed claims made by a supposed village head from Kampung Sarok that NGOs were the masterminds of the Kampung Cunex blockades against loggers.
Centre for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC) coordinator Colin Nicholas challenged the village leader to name the (...)
PETALING JAYA: An NGO has called for further consultation by the government on the bill for the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) tabled in Parliament last month, saying the proposed law as it stands is weak.
Citizens Against Enforced Disappearance (CAGED) said (...)
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been urged to emulate Thailand in the management of human trafficking cases by allowing collaboration between enforcement agencies and civic groups.
Patchareeboon Sakulpitakphon, who works with the Asian chapter of the United States Agency for International (...)
PETALING JAYA: A think tank has backed a former MP’s call for a review of the MySalam insurance scheme, saying it excludes some people because of flaws in its design.
“MySalam was rushed, poorly conceived and simplistic in its design,” Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy CEO Azrul Mohd (...)
The government should review the mySalam insurance scheme and call it off if necessary as it is not benefitting its supposed target group, the poorest 40% of Malaysians.
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) chairman Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj claimed that the greatest beneficiary under the scheme is not (...)
LANGKAWI: The religionisation of Malay literature over the decades has become a stumbling block to realising the national culture, a concept that was proposed as far back as 50 years ago, said prominent writer Faizal Musa.
Faizal, better known by his pen name Faisal Tehrani, referred to the (...)
The Pakatan Harapan government is failing to deliver its election promises of progressive reform. Don’t blame the “deep state” — blame their lack of determination and their own reliance on police dirty tricks.
You have to laugh at the way one Pakatan Harapan (PH) leader after another is trying to (...)
COMMENT | PKR president Anwar Ibrahim’s comments on his commitment to needs-based affirmative action policies instead of the race-based ones in place are problematic for a variety of reasons.
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner (...)
“We don’t call them elephants. To us, they are known as Atok or Orang Besar, because they lived in and roamed this forest longer than we have.”
– Ramli (Temiar villager)
COMMENT | Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department P Waythamoorthy’s call for the police to release three Temiar Orang Asli (...)
PSM is concerned with the formation of race-based parties which threatens to revert the current Pakatan Harapan coalition to the BN era.
In view of this, PSM deputy chairperson S Arutchelvan is surprised that Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department P Waythamoorthy also chose to tread down (...)
Parti Sosialis Malaysia experienced its first ‘transition of power’ over the weekend, but there were no surprises as former Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj took over as chairperson from Nasir Hashim
“There’s not much change in terms of analysis and policy. In PSM collective leadership (...)
The chairperson of Parti Sosialis Malaysia uses an open letter to draw attention to the crisis of housing of former plantation workers and their families. He also traces the ways that Malaysia’s corporate elite avoid their responsibilities in their hunger for easy profits.
LETTER | I have been (...)
“I find it strange that some are alleging there were threats. This is beyond what I can imagine.” Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad
COMMENT | Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad, after his risible response to the allegations that birth control injections were forced upon Orang Asli women, has ordered (...)
PSM would like to congratulate the appointment of the eight new members of the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam). We are especially pleased with the appointment of Mohd Hishamudin Md Yunus, the outstanding former Appeal’s Court judge. In fact, we think someone like Hishamudin’s standing should (...)
“This is a new era. I will make sure that the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government will never misuse universities for political interests … this includes me. We will neither control and dictate to them [the universities] nor force them [to do anything]. We really want the universities to enjoy their (...)
Malaysia’s year-old Pakatan Harapan (PH) government has made the headlines for environmental progress. The quick arrest of those behind toxic contamination at Sungai Kim-Kim, the highly publicised rejection of container-loads of plastic waste, and declarations of poachers to be shot on sight (...)
According to government statistics, poverty is virtually non-existent in Malaysia—the Barisan Nasional (BN) government pegged its incidence at 0.6% of the population in 2014. But this was because the poverty line was fixed at ridiculously low levels then. It is still unrealistic now: RM920 per (...)
As the politics based on “race” continues to preoccupy our politicians, we would be wise to instead focus on the issues that benefit the “people”, namely, the climate crisis, the toxic pollution of our environment, the continuing destruction of our parks and forests, the displacement of our (...)
Radical street artist Fahmi Reza reflects on Malaysia a year after Najib’s fall.
Rarely has a singular image become so powerfully potent that it is associated with the downfall of an entire regime. Throughout history, political and protest art has always accompanied any sort of popular (...)
When Dr Mahathir Mohamad was asked how [imprisoned dissident] Anwar Ibrahim got his black eye in 1998, Mahathir said it was self-inflicted by Anwar. Now if you asked me how was Pakatan Harapan’s performance in the last one year, since coming to power, I would say the problems are self-inflicted. (...)
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