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It may be one small step for our neighbour, but it's a giant leap for human rights advocates. The new Security Offenses Bill presented to the lower house of Malaysia's Parliament on Tuesday will limit detention without charge to 28 days, not indefinitely, as was the case under the repressive ISA law. The British introduced... 

Were the Sinkies angry? Were their cries and pain heard and felt? The anger of a people feeling betrayed is beyond words. When foreigners came in drove ‘to help them’ and be treated like citizens with almost the same privileges, and more, yes more, whether the help was genuine or fake, it does not matter anymore. The... 

Much of what is being said by Professor Lim Chong Yah and Tan Jee Say is not new. However, it is something that is needed to be said over and over again. The point is this: the present government is shortchanging its citizens through its economic policies. Let me try to put it in simpler terms as to what is going on. For ease...