The French Open
I AM in Paris at the invitation of the French Foreign Ministry as a participant of the Programme d’invitation des…
Browsing: #AbidinIdeas
State of the Hall
THE call to abolish the Dewan Negara because it is a costly rubberstamp is not as incendiary as some people…
Malaysian born in Melbourne
EARLIER this week, I and five other Malaysian Muslims visited a church, gurdwara and Buddhist temple. I asked my companions…
Taximeter cabinet
THERE is no emphatic message emerging from the make-up of the cabinet, but that’s no reason to be harsh on…
Partially free and not fair
THAT is the conclusion – benchmarked against the Declaration on Criteria for Free and Fair Elections by the Inter-Parliamentary Union,…
May the fifth be with us
AS I write, the dominant feeling among commentators is that making predictions for the results for Sunday night is futile,…
Careful observations
I WAS at SMK Bukit Bandaraya in Lembah Pantai on Nomination Day (last Saturday), wearing my official SPR Pemerhati (EC-accredited…
Clapping for Malaysia
PRIOR to last week the only school I had visited in Perak was the Malay College Kuala Kangsar: to speak…