KUALA LUMPUR: A new generation of leaders in Malaysia is fighting for control of the ruling party—in disarray since heavy election losses—with the premier’s son-in-law battling his [...]

Nov 20 (Bernama) — The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) has received 280 complaints on money politics involving political parties.
ACA director-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan said of the figure, 82 complaints had basis for investigation and were now being investigated.
“The rest were referred to the disciplinary body of the political parties concerned,” he said after officiating [...]

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Kejayaan ideologi populis Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dalam pilihan raya lalu umpama mimpi menjadi realiti. Majoriti pengundi Pakatan Rakyat percaya Anwar mampu memberikan mereka satu era baru dalam politik negara ini. Anwar pada tanggal 9 April 2008 umpama “phoenix rise from its ashes.”
Mati hidup semula kata Jamal Abdillah. Para pentaksub Anwar mengiyakan apa sahaja [...]

A new centre-right government has taken office in New Zealand, having defeated Helen Clark’s Labour party in a general election on 8 November.
John Key, 47, was sworn in as New Zealand’s 38th prime minister during a ceremony in the capital, Wellington.
The multi-millionaire former investment banker said limiting the damage of the global recession [...]

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Three blocks from the White House, on the 10th floor of a sleek glass building, young workers pound at computers, with giant flat-screen TVs overhead. It has the look and feel of a high-tech startup.
In many ways it is. The product is ideas.
Thanks in part to funding from benefactors such as [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A key Democratic lawmaker vowed to ban the sale and counterfeiting of tickets to President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration.
The lawmaker warned the dignified ritual should not take on the airs of a “football game”.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein said on Monday that she would introduce legislation to ensure that tickets for the Jan [...]

Persoalan seperti siapa musuh Malaysia dan tuduhan rasuah apabila sistem pertahanan negara dibangunkan kadangkala menjadi stereotaip yang menjelekkan. Sedangkan rakyat negara jiran cukup berbangga dengan kemajuan pertahanan mereka.
SEJAK kebelakangan ini setiap perolehan aset pertahanan negara dipandang negatif seperti apa yang berlaku dalam perolehan Eurocopter EC-725 dan kapal selam Scorpene.
Orang ramai dan ahli politik ada yang [...]

Pulau Pinang — Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat seharusnya mencermin diri terlebih dahulu sebelum membuat dakwaan membuta tuli berhubung isu dominasi orang Melayu dalam sektor awam.
Ketua Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO Bahagian Kepala Batas, Datuk Reezal Merican Naina Merican menegaskan, proses marginalisasi kaum Melayu sebenarnya lebih luas berlaku di bawah kepimpinan Pakatan Rakyat.
Jelasnya, di bawah pentadbiran Pakatan Rakyat, orang [...]

Pada hari Jumaat Malaysiakini memaparkan Raja Nazrin: Pemerintah tidak akan bertindak sekiranya diberikan nasihat yang salah.
Selain dari bergembira bilamana kita mungkin mendapat sedikit semakan dan imbangan dari raja, perbezaannya ialah saya diselubungi kedukaan. Saya langsung tidak teruja dengan ucapan YTM Tuanku.
Demokrasi Malaysia, ketuat atau tidak, sudah pun mempunyai sistem semakan dan imbangan, yang harus [...]

Conservatism’s current intellectual chaos reverberated in the Republican ticket’s end-of-campaign crescendo of surreal warnings that big government — verily, “socialism” — would impend were Democrats elected. John McCain and Sarah Palin experienced this epiphany when Barack Obama told a Toledo plumber that he would “spread the wealth around.”
America can’t have that, exclaimed the [...]