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President Hosni Mubarak is down, out of office, but not out of the country as he licks his wounds in the opulent splendour of his seaside villa at Sharm-el-Sheikh. To the end he showed an appalling sense of timing, a military dictator out of touch with his people and the wiser heads around him. Given several opportunities to... 

According to a survey by Berita Harian, there are around 15 Malay candidates who may stand for opposition parties. By any measure, they are indeed qualified candidates who are not any less than any PAP Malay MPs. However amongst the 15 odd names listed, none is a top Malay achiever. In fact in the last few decades I cannot recall... 

A political party is only as good as its leaders are. The present PAP is a pale shadow of its former self and has ceased to be a political party altogether. It is merely a political vehicle for a single man to govern the country. No PAP member can ever hope to rise up in its ranks without prior approval from this man. The PAP...