The definition of a two party system is a democratic political system where two major parties dominate and either party wins in almost all elections.  This does not exclude the existence of smaller parties but essentially only one of the two dominant parties has a chance of winning and forming the government. Two party systems are the norm in matured democracies such as the Democrats and Republicans in the United States, the Conservative and the Liberal Party in U.K., Labour and Liberal in ..

On a hot Sunday afternoon on March 7, 2010 the staid upper class atmosphere of Tropicana witnessed a noisy spectacle. A group of about 100 Indians in bright orange T-shirts led by P Uthayakumar, one of the original Hindraf leaders, demonstrated in front of PKR headquarters demanding to hand over a memo to Anwar Ibrahim, the de facto leader of Pakatan Rakyat. They did not manage to meet Anwar, who was away, but they did manage to spew forth - for the benefit of journalists and TV cameras - the ..

Pada sessi Parlimen tahun ini yang akan bermula pada 15 Mac 2010 yang akan datang, Akta GST (GST Bill) akan dibentangkan untuk perbahasan di Parlimen.    Kerajaan BN berhasrat untuk melaksanakan sistem taksiran cukai GST (Goods and Services Tax) semata-mata untuk menambah karung kocek sendiri.  Niat untuk memperbaiki taraf hidup rakyat hasil dari pungutan cukai ini memang tiada. Pakar ekonomi dari DAP, Tony Pua berkata bahawa cukai ini akan menjadikan rakyat yang miskin lebih miskin lagi ..

Pada sessi Parlimen tahun ini yang akan bermula pada 15 Mac 2010 yang akan datang, Akta GST (GST Bill) akan dibentangkan untuk perbahasan di Parlimen.    Kerajaan BN berhasrat untuk melaksanakan sistem taksiran cukai GST (Goods and Services Tax) semata-mata untuk menambah karung kocek sendiri.  Niat untuk memperbaiki taraf hidup rakyat hasil dari pungutan cukai ini memang tiada. Pakar ekonomi dari DAP, Tony Pua berkata bahawa cukai ini akan menjadikan rakyat yang miskin lebih miskin lagi ..

The 13th general election will be the most watched election in Malaysian history. For the first time ever, the opposition is trying to unseat BN from Federal power instead of just trying to deny BN as many seats as possible. It is the culmination of the many battles for the future of Malaysia with Pakatan Rakyat leading the charge. But BN is a behemoth which is not easy to unseat. It possesses an inexhaustible war chest, controls the mass media and has corrupted all the institutions of ..

With the implementation of the GST in mid-June 2011, everyone will be paying taxes. The tagline of Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) should be ‘Now Everyone Can Pay’ and an advertisement should be put forth showing a Malay, Chinese and Indian with smiling faces to promote a tax-paying 1Malaysia.  No one can escape. Even poor folks, senior citizens, the physically disabled, ill and bedridden folks and low-income earners will have to pay GST. No one will be exempted because everyone will be ..

What is going on at PKR? Is it really falling apart because of fears that Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, the adviser and pulse of the party, might soon be jailed for sodomy?  Can it truly be that some of the leaders in PKR are so treacherous, so easily enamored by the big bucks and promises of power dangled by arch rival Umno, that they would defect even at the risk of permanently damaging their own credibility? Or are they truly fed up with Anwar’s leadership and the alleged favoritism he ..

There is no doubt that the present sodomy case against Anwar will have a great impact on Malaysia when pushed to its expected conclusion. Domestically we can expect tremendous socio-political forces to be generated while internationally Malaysia’s reputation will take a severe beating. Let me get straight to the point and say the prosecutors have already lost the case in the court of public opinion even though the trial has barely started. They have not only lost it but relinquished it lock, ..

In any culture, it is a big taboo to insult a person's mother. You can call people any name you like, and perhaps, a large-minded person will just see you off as a jerk or a fool, and will not make a big fuss over it. But in no way can you ever insult his mother, or his grandmother. And this is particularly serious in the Chinese culture. Both mum and granny are sacred beings not to be encroached upon or desecrated. Nasir Safar said Chinese women came to Malaysia to sell their bodies (jual ..

Pada masa perayaan Tahun Baru Cina ini, Perdana Menteri Najib Razak asyik sahaja membuat lawatan ke rumah terbuka di sana sini.  Beliau sendiri pun telah menganjurkan satu rumah terbuka secara besar-besaran di Pandamaran di mana kebanyakan penduduknya adalah berbangsa Cina dan telah dilaporkan bahawa rumah terbuka ini mendapat sambutan hangat dari rakyat berbilang kaum. Beliau telah mengambil kesempatan masa Tahun Baru Cina ini untuk cuba meraih kembali sokongan orang Cina.  Oleh itu, pada ..

I agree with veteran Umno leader Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah that the federal government’s full-page advertisements in Malay weeklies on the oil royalty controversy is an insult to the intelligence of all Malaysians. The full-page advertisements contain an important omission – the reply 35 years ago in Parliament by the then Prime Minister, Tun Razak to my question whether all states in Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah had signed agreements with Petronas for oil exploration along the ..

Siang itu, 14 Februari 2010, saya mendarat di Bandara Kota Bharu, Negeri Kelantan. Saya datang ke Kelantan atas undangan Departemen Penerangan Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan, sebagai pembicara ahli dalam acara talkshow berjudul, Selebriti Sebagai Ikon Masyarakat dalam momen Festival Hiburan Islami. Juga diundang untuk memberi kuliah umum di Masjid Kerajaan. Tiba di bandara panitia sudah datang menjemput. Mereka terdiri dua orang gadis dan dua orang lelaki. Ramah dan baik. Saya langsung diajak untuk ..

I see the Ministry of Information has taken out full page advertisements in the major Malay newspapers to argue that Kelantan has no right to oil payments under the Petroleum Development Act because the oil resources in question lie outside the 3 nautical mile limit that delimits state versus federal jurisdictions. The advertisement fails to point out that almost all the oil found in Malaysia is located more than 3 nautical miles offshore, and Petronas has nevertheless been making oil payments ..