PSM chairperson Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj has completed an interrogation at the Bukit Aman Police Headquarters today over his attendance at a function in Kajang on Dec 1 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Hat Yai Peace Agreement.
The former Sungai Siput lawmaker told Malaysiakini that he (...)
On Friday, Lim Guan Eng, the DAP secretary-general and finance minister, called the arrest of the party’s members under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) a “deep state” operation.
According to Lim, a question on this was posed during a meeting of party leaders. What does (...)
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) wishes to congratulate the government for Budget 2020 that is on the whole a fairly responsible and sober handling of the government’s finances, given the existing constraints.
We note that social expenditure on education, health, housing, the Bantuan Sara Hidup (...)
Pakatan Harapan and the PAS-Umno alliance may have put their own spin on the realignment of national politics in the country but PSM believes the inking of a political charter between the country’s two largest Malays parties should not be dismissed.
PSM deputy chairperson S Arutchelvan said (...)
PSM has called on Putrajaya to investigate the increasing number of deaths among Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia.
This followed a special report collaboration between Dhaka-based Kaler Kantho and Malaysiakini which found 393 Bangladeshi workers dying in Malaysia in the first half of (...)
COMMENT | The recent statements emanating from top civil servants, namely Public Services Department director-general Borhan Dolah and Chief Secretary to the Government Ismail Bakar, indicate that the proposal to phase out the pension scheme for government servants is being seriously considered (...)
The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has called for a monthly minimum of RM500 in cost of living allowance (Cola) in its Budget 2020 proposals, stressing that official statistics hide the extent of poverty in the country.
MTUC secretary-general J Solomon said the government must accept that Malaysians in the middle- and lower-income levels were unable to make ends meet and those with families were actually struggling.
“We are not asking for higher take-home wages, we are only asking for (...)
Minister for Youth and Sports Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s push for the legalisation of Indonesia’s Gojek (motorbike ride share platform) has certainly caused shockwaves on social media.
According to the Minister, allowing Gojek to operate in Malaysia will provide thousands of jobs for (...)
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article referred to AATC as “Advanced Aeronautics Training Centre”. This has been corrected to “Allied Aeronautics Training Centre”. The former has no dispute with regard to the Skills Development Fund Corporation loans. Malaysiakini apologises for the (...)
Far from having virtually eradicated poverty as often claimed, a UN envoy contends that Malaysia has been severely under-representing the true state of poverty in the country.
Official figures state that the poverty rate fell from 49 percent in 1970 to just 0.4 percent in 2016.
Speaking to (...)
COMMENT | It is a sad irony that while the Prime Minister is casting aspersions on Chinese educationists and even threatening arrests, we are celebrating 200 years of the contributions of Chinese education to this country.
When I first joined Dong Zong (the National Chinese School Committees (...)
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 (...)
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