Politics
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535Facebook now shows political ad spend. So we checked which party spent the most on Sabah
It was the election weekend in Sabah recently and, just in case you’re not aware, Gabungan Rakyat Sabah, which comprises BN, Perikatan...
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2.9K58% of M’sian youth leaders are not even muda. One of them might be… a senior citizen?!
Haven’t you heard? There’s a new political party in town and it’s called MUDA. It was formed by Syed Saddiq and, unlike...
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1.8KAnwar claimed that he has majority. So did Mahathir and Muhyiddin, but what’s ‘majority’?
This is it people. It’s almost the end of September. We’re closing in to 2020’s finish line. Just a little more bois…...
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8.6KActually… why did a US spy plane impersonate a Malaysian aircraft on South China Sea?
Recently, there was a strange sighting over the South China Sea. Although the aforementioned sighting wasn’t exactly a birdplane (or whatever you...
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983Here’s how MARA allegedly laundered RM73 million using Australia and a cake shop
When you take a glimpse at the government agencies we have in Malaysia, you’ll find that we really have a thing for acronyms, like...
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1.6KIn the 1960s, Tunku invited Israel to a Malayan football tournament. But they never came.
Malaysia’s differences with Israel aren’t exactly a new thing; not only do we not recognize them as a nation, most recently both...
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9.8KThe story of an Interpol fugitive from Indonesia who may have a role in the 1MDB scandal
As humans, we’re naturally attracted to scandals and political drama, with these topics becoming dinnertime conversations and the like. For example, Malaysia’s...
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1.7KThe govt is proposing a new watchdog for PDRM, even tho we already have one. But why?
If anything, the #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon has brought to the surface a serious conversation about police brutality, and that includes Malaysia. There have been...
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10.2KThe story of Dr Noor Hisham – the man lauded as a ‘national hero’, and now ‘Tan Sri’
[UPDATE: 17/08/2020] We’re updating this article to include how the Health Ministry’s Director-General, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah was recently awarded with the title...
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3.0KIn 1786, Francis Light didn’t actually take control of Penang. He ‘rented’ it from Kedah.
Most of the time, we think we know everything about our country’s history, what with five years of studying our Sejarah textbooks...