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Release the report

Release the Report: Secrecy Is Evasion! -- Charles Santiago. 31 March 2026 Malaysiakini's report referencing Bloomberg is not some trivial bureaucratic document. Instead, it concerns serious allegations that findings into the shareholdings controversy involving MACC chief Azam Baki were withheld from the public under the orders of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Citing unnamed sources, there are claims that key individuals were asked to delay releasing the probe's outcome. This is precisely the kind of information that, in any functioning democracy, must be subjected to immediate and transparent public scrutiny. What we are witnessing instead is a familiar and deeply corrosive pattern: opacity justified by silence, and silence defended by power. If the report exists, and multiple credible sources suggest it does, then withholding it is not administrative caution; it is political obstruction. There is no intellectually honest argument for keeping findings of this magni...

The only religions that need defending are non-Muslim faiths

https://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/770816 COMMENT | The only religions that need defending are non-Muslim faiths S Thayaparan Published:  Mar 23, 2026 7:00 AM ⋅ Updated: 2:49 PM "Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." - Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century COMMENT | There is this old Buddhist shrine on the roadside in a sometimes quiet but often bustling suburb in Petaling Jaya. It has been there for decades. Nobody really knows who built it. For decades in this racially diverse neighbourhood, the roadside shrine had endured. School children passed by it on their way to and from school. Adults drove past it on their way to work and on the drive back. ADS There was nothing extraor...

WAKE UP MALAYSIA

WAKE UP MALAYSIA – Our Survival Is Already Bleeding Out While We Fight Over Race & Religion WAKE UP, MALAYSIA! Why are we taking our survival for granted? The war and chaos in the Middle East is not some distant news headline — it is already strangling our nation's lifeline. Every day we waste bickering, our future grows darker. Why are we STILL obsessed with politics, race, and religion? Why are we STILL tearing each other apart while the real storm is at our door? When the crisis truly hits, it will NOT care if you are Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan, Iban or anything else. Your child will cry from hunger the same way. Your family will queue for water the same way. Your parents will suffer without medicine the same way. We will bleed together — or we will wake up together. Open your eyes to the truth: Diesel shortages have already struck parts of Johor — pumps running dry, trucks stalled, chaos beginning. SPAN has issued a dire warnin...

On the ‘founder’ of Kuala Lumpur

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1607912906967125&set=a.745626439862447&type=3&mibextid=wwXIfr On the 'founder' of Kuala Lumpur — Ranjit Singh Malhi (...) Allow me to enlighten readers about who exactly is the "founder" of Kualan Lumpur based upon authoritative sources. The Mandailing nobleman, who according to Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim, is the founder of Kuala Lumpur is Sutan Puasa, and not Sultan Puasa. Additionally, it has to be clarified that Sutan Puasa had no authority to sanction (i.e. provide official approval) the appointment of each Kapitan Cina although his support was sought and deemed important in the said appointment. The authority to officially appoint the Kapitan Cina of Kuala Lumpur was vested either in the Malay district chief of Klang or the ruler of Selangor himself. According to J. M. Gullick, Hiu Siew obtained recognition as the first Kapitan Cina of Kuala Lumpur from the Malay chief of Klang with the ...

"The Three Sisters of the South Seas"

"The Three Sisters of the South Seas" Once upon a time, there were three island sisters — Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore — living peacefully under the watch of a distant guardian called Britannia. Though the guardian was strict, she kept them clothed, fed, and mostly safe nfrom the tempests that raged in the wider world. One day, the guardian grew weary of her duty and announced, "My dear girls, it is time you stand on your own feet. But first, you shall marry." The sisters looked at each other, puzzled. "Marry whom?" they asked. A suitor appeared — Malaya — tall, ambitious, and eager to expand his household. He promised: "With me, you will share equal love, equal say, equal rights. I can marry four but will settle for just three.Together, we will be stronger than the storms." The girls were unsure and looked towards Britannia. They were told they could only marry if they signed a grand Prenuptial Agreement, calle...

Respect and kindness connect us all

https://thesun.my/going-viral/respect-and-kindness-connect-us-all-malay-man-learns-about-hinduism-from-kind-woman-at-temple/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQmCvhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFJQVdKVXB4d1B6Mlk0RDBoc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHv4gVm7OGZ12nyO4XfgvAQvXXYeLjFEmSgA6ULx7kBrtjfdQHp5oG-MZ3J05_aem_duZFwmFNZaUsZyDoSz-0XQ Sent from my iPhone

ORANG ASLI NOT THE ‘RAKYAT ASAL TANAH MELAYU’ IN SCHOOL HISTORY BOOK

https://www.facebook.com/share/18SsxpAY75/?mibextid=wwXIfr ORANG ASLI NOT THE 'RAKYAT ASAL TANAH MELAYU' IN SCHOOL HISTORY BOOK . Ranjit Singh Malhi 14 March 2026 . The Orang Asli have virtually disappeared from the current Malaysian secondary school history textbooks. Not a single reference is made to them as the indigenous people or the "first people" of Peninsular Malaysia. Yet, in the 2019 Form Four History textbook, the Malays are described as "rakyat asal Tanah Melayu". To me, this omission of a fundamental historical truth amounts to nothing less than an "intellectual crime". Earlier generations of Malaysian history textbooks acknowledged the Orang Asli with honesty and respect, providing students with a proper account of their presence and recognising them as the "penduduk asal Tanah Melayu". . Such a glaring omission cannot be allowed to pass silently. In an effort to restore balance and historical integrity,...

Some released Hamas prisoners are relocating to South-east Asia, raising…

Some released Hamas prisoners are relocating to South-east Asia, raising security concerns | The Straits Times Some released Hamas prisoners are relocating to South-east Asia, raising security concerns straitstimes.com/opinion/some-released-hamas-prisoners-are-relocating-to-southeast-asia-raising- security-concerns March 13, 2026 As part of the Gaza peace plan and an earlier Israel-Hamas ceasefire brokered in January 2025, thousands of Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli prisons. Among them were several hundred who were not permitted to return to Gaza or the West Bank because of their involvement in attacks against Israelis. Some of these militants have instead been relocated to third countries. Malaysia is among them: 15 former prisoners have reportedly been resettled there. Little is publicly known about these individuals beyond their alleged links to Hamas and past involvement in terrorist plots. According to reports, one was part of...

Some released Hamas prisoners are relocating to South-east Asia, raising security concerns _ The Straits Times

Malaysia’s Decline Is Not Accidental

So here goes: "' *Malaysia's Decline Is Not Accidental* _It Is Structurally Engineered_ _By Design, Not by Chance_ Malaysia's stagnation is often blamed on weak governments, poor leadership, global headwinds, or foreign interference. These explanations are comforting because they are temporary. Change the leaders, adjust policy, wait for better times and things will improve. That belief is false. Malaysia's real crisis is not cyclical. It is *structural*. And structures do not heal themselves. *The Fatal Contradiction at the Heart of the Nation* At the core of Malaysia's decline lies a single, devastating contradiction: *The group that contributes the most to the economy is denied power, protection, and future .The group with the lowest productivity is granted political dominance and determines national direction.* No modern nation has survived such an arrangement. History is unequivocal on this point. This is not a moral judge...

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No place for theocracy in Malaysia

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2026/03/04/no-place-for-theoracy-in-malaysia Sent from my iPhone