How can Prime Minister Najib Razak, his government, and its supporters justify their act of prohibiting the 'Allah' word to Malaysian Christians when no one else in the Islamic world agrees with them, asks a former US ambassador to the country.
Will Malaysia be a fulcrum connecting maritime and mainland parts of Southeast Asia or instead its fault line? Within and among Asean states, there are softly spoken concerns about Malaysia's domestic contradictions in recognition of the possibilities of massive social and political dislocation and even disintegration of the fractured country.
The history of Singapore as presented by the one-party state is now being subject to unprecedented querying and interrogation absolute power of the PAP.
The Batang Kali massacre occurred because, in Britain's Empire, principles – specifically the right to life and to its protection by laws to be enforced on an equal basis – were sometimes abandoned