RATUSAN JUTA WANG RAKYAT LEBUR

Dangkal dan sengkek sungguh pemikiran seorang Menteri Besar yang diangkat menjadi Menteri Besar bukan atas sokongan Barisan Nasional itu. Dia lupa diri bagaimana hanya untuk meletakkanya sebagaiMenteri Besar seluruh Terengganu jadi kecoh dan tercetus budaya caci mencaci membabitkan kemuliaan istana. 

KAMAL AMIR MENULIS

Pelik memikirkan, apa sebenarnya motif menempatkan begitu ramai anggota keselamatan di Kuala Terengganu?

Ahmad Lutfi Othman, HARAKAH

BN component parties, such as the MCA and Gerakan, are likely to exploit the issue of hudud among the Chinese, who make up about 11 per cent of the Kuala Terengganu electorate.

ZUBAIDAH ABU BAKAR, New Straits Times

While ushering in this New Year of 2009 amidst rumblings of religious and racial intolerance around the globe as well as at home, it is timely to reflect upon Malaysia’s race relations as envisioned by the country’s founding fathers.

By CH’NG KIM SEE, THE STAR

Abdul Wahid seorang yang rendah diri ataupun tidak ada riak, bongkak atau hidung tinggi. Saya mempunyai pengalaman peribadi dengan beliau dalam hal ini.

Zulkifli Sulong, The Malaysian Insider

Rajakumar and his doctor friends continued to be witness to--if not discreetly involved in--subsequent anti-colonial mobilizations involving the PAP, university student activists, the radical anti-colonial labour movement and the struggle over ideas.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Sin Chew

The Kuala Terengganu and Sarawak state polls will be key tests for both the Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat coalitions.

By KARIM RASLAN, MySinchew

(NST) Pakatan Rakyat in its present form is not a viable alternative to Barisan Nasional, writes ZUBAIDAH ABU BAKAR

(NST) I HAD been following some of the arguments, pro and con, about what language to use in teaching Science and Mathematics in our schools and came away persuaded by, well, both sides.

A WRITER'S LIFE By DINA ZAMAN (The Star)

ALONG THE WATCHTOWER By M. VEERA PANDIYAN (The Star)

As we try to look ahead, the future would invariably require us to look back at the life and times of two individuals who would likely dominate our consciousness in 2009.

By Zainul Arifin, New Straits Times

It is also crystal clear that hudud is not the most demanding issue that ought to be bulldozed and carried out in Malaysia, what more in a country that only comprise of about 60 per cent Muslims.

By Muaz Omar, The Malaysian Insider

Perhaps the real reform that the Umno leadership could do is to change its culture and find the idealistic young people to cultivate a new struggle for Umno to strive for. But it is unlikely for a leader to be selfless and clean up the mess left behind by the immediate predecessor.

By Nur Jazlan, The Malaysian Insider

The Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election on Jan 17 may reveal Pas' eagerness to break away from the pack and run the final stretch alone.

Rehman Rashid, New Straits Times

In an age when headlines and sensationalism attract our attention, there is a need for us to understand some, if not all, of the different religions that exist.

By RAJA ZARITH IDRIS, THE STAR

The by-election could not have come at a better time or at a better place. The timing is perfect so as to keep the issue of change in centre court. While in terms of place, Terengganu is displayed as a fortress of strength for the BN.

Khalid Samad

This division is a classic case of divide and rule. It was applied by the colonial administrators of the 19th- and 20th-century Malaya in order to keep the locals easier to manage. Barisan Nasional with its racial-based political parties continued to practise the same policy to much success until recently. Now, here we are witnessing yet another group trying to do the same thing all over again.

Hafiz Noor Shams, The Malaysian Insider

It is still gung-ho politics among the Pakatan, reminiscent of the times when the former opposition party leaders were stirring up emotions and promising the sky to win the election.

Baradan Kuppusamy, The Star

Even Pas’s own religious scholars chief Datuk Mohamed Daud Iraqi told Utusan Malaysia that hudud is not a priority but peace and equality were and hudud could only be implemented once all parties understand and accept it.

By Shannon Teoh, The Malaysian Insider