Showdown in Stampin
Commentary
By Lian Cheng
Within Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN), there are few complications in terms of candidacy for Bumiputera-majority areas due to the strong BN influence...
GE14: Comparing the BN Sarawak and PH Sarawak manifestoes
Commentary
By Lian Cheng
One cannot help but notice the numerous similarities between the respective manifestoes of state-ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) and state opposition Pakatan...
We may be young, but we are not ignorant
Commentary
by Lian Cheng
FOLLOWING Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) takeover of the federal government and with the Sarawak ruling coalition, Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS), choosing to remain...
The one-mile journey
Commentary
By Lian Cheng
WHEN the outcome of 14th General Election was finalised, many Malaysians each proposed a toast. But different people held up their glasses for...
‘Our leaders cannot afford to keep silent on religious, racial intolerance’
State Parti Keadilan Rakyat chairman and Ba Kelalan assemblyman Baru Bian says that Malaysian leaders should not and cannot keep silent over several recent...
Flaying the messenger doesn’t change the facts
Commentary
Malaysian jazz icon Sheila Majid’s tweet on the rising cost of living has continued to resound with Sarawakians trumpeting loudly in support. The truth...
The moth politicians
Commentary
by Lian Cheng
As a group of friends who are political news moguls were seated in a coffee shop, the topic of discussion slowly turned...