A Member of Parliament has just received a Notice that the PM will be proposing a Motion to end all Emergencies.
Nov 222011
Nov 202011
Leadership changes in the social reform group Aliran.
Oct 262011
Hypocrisy at its worst. Remember how the imperial powers viewed the occupation of Tahrir Square as a positive step forward for democracy in Egypt (which it was)? But when it happens in their own backyard as in the peaceful Occupy Oakland protest, they respond with force.
Sep 172011
Is Najib for real? Or is all this talk of reform just a pre-election ploy? Here’s something I wrote for Asia Times, together with another correspondent Simon Roughneen.
Sep 162011
Half a dozen years ago, to mark Singapore’s 40th Independence Day in 2005, a Singapore website invited me to write an imaginary news-report about Malaysia exactly 20 years into the future i.e. 9 August 2025.