THE on-going case of the Indian consul Devyani Khobragade being arrested and strip-searched in New York for underpaying her domestic…

THE Proclamation of Tuanku Muhriz as Yang di-Pertuan Besar on December 29, 2008 coincided with Awal Muharram 1430, but this…

SYED Husin Ali’s ‘Two Faces’ helped convince me as a teenager that no one should be subject to detention without…

When economists talk of Malaysia’s success story, referring to our wealth and development, they employ various indicators – GDP per…

“UNFORTUNATELY, in a society obsessed with ‘development and progress’, we have to be vigilant or we may easily lose the…

LAST week, writing about politicians’ salaries, I touched upon how expectations voters have of their elected representatives have evolved over…

WHEN Westminister parliamentary democracy was in its infancy, Members of Parliament received no salaries at all. The logic was that…