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Josh Hong | Political oddities aplenty The forum organised by Roketkini.com, DAP’s party organ, to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the death of Abdul Razak Hussein two days ago was a bizarre affair. Granted, Malaysia’s second prime minister is widely credited for his firm leadership and epochal …

Josh Hong | Income disparity Internationally, Malaysia is widely regarded as a model in terms of addressing the issue of social exclusion. Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, for instance observes that the incidence of aggregate Malaysian poverty was reduced from 8.9 per …

Josh Hong | Scottish independence and Malaysia The ‘No’ camp in the Scottish referendum on independence is heading for a convincing victory, and there may be another decade at least before the nationalists would toy with the idea of complete sovereignty for Scotland. After all, it is an important is …

Josh Hong | Najib’s White Terror I have never for a moment bought the propaganda that Najib Abdul Razak is a reformist. Remember the Perak debacle back in February 2009? It happened just barely two months before he took over from Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. One must not forget Najib was all smiles when t …

Josh Hong | A hopeful mourning Earlier today, Malaysia paused for a minute of silence on the nationwide day of mourning as the first remains of the 43 Malaysians killed in the MH17 shoot-down in eastern Ukraine last month were flown back. As the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah receiv …

Josh Hong | Gaza? What about the pains of others? A Palestinian man once asked me, how would you, as a Christian, feel if it was the Christians that were being persecuted today? I replied, “First of all, Christians are indeed being persecuted, in Iraq, Iran and perhaps in Syria right now. So there i …