Najib, like Abdullah and unlike Mahathir, is shown to be not strident against the West and has cozied up to the US.

It has to balance its complex ties with North and South Korea, Russia, China and the US, taking into consideration economic and military threats.

The 'general elections' in Burma is now over but under the military junta, the many problems it faces still remain and its future looks dim.    

The arrival of North Korean weapons experts and the building of certain facilities have given rise to this speculation.

Renowned historian Dr Khoo Kay Khim apologises to a Singapore-based Australian author for accusing the latter of being a British secret agent.

Malaysiakini speaks to UKM's Prof Dr Lee Poh Ping on the questions which have arised after Yasuo Fukuda took over the reins.

Japan's newly elected Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is "only a transitional leader" in a political flux, says an observer.

Professor Lee Poh Ping gives his take on the likely changes and continuities of Japan's foreign policies and its conduct of international relations in the post-Abe era.

The monument commemorates Malayans of all ethnic communities who sacrificed their lives in the armed resistance to the Japanese invasion and occupation.

James R Keith, a former US consul general in Hong Kong, will succeed Christopher J LaFleur whose term of office has expired.

Communist veteran Chin Peng files an appeal to the Kuala Lumpur High Court against an earlier decision ordering him to produce his birth or citizenship documents.

Two world-renowned Cambridge historians specialising in the British Empire in Asia reaffirm the fact that the communist leader was born in Sitiawan, Perak.

Abdullah CD says the history of the Bukit Kepong attack in the movie Peristiwa Bukit Kepong has been distorted.

It's verbal warfare between the Barisan Nasional component parties over the claim that Malaysia is an Islamic state.

exclusive When Dr Lim Hock Siew was detained, his son was five-months-old. When he was released, the boy was in university.

The info minister will be launching the Malay and English editions of the memoirs at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka on July 16.

news analysis The NEP and its supporters are confronted by a new configuration of internal and external forces for change and reform.

Tang Wensheng will be here to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Malaysia and China.

A book on inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts has hit bookstores across the Causeway.

The veteran journalist recounts the 17 years of his detention in Singapore in the translated second part.

Veteran social scientist Rustam Sani says rational discourse on the 'May 13' book will make Malaysian society 'more mature' in its understanding of inter-ethnic relations.

There is a 'high level of interest' for the controversial book in Singapore as the Malaysian government mulls on whether to ban it, says a well-known distributor.

The former Utusan Melayu editor-in-chief says 'mature' people should not fear history.

analysis It will find small signs of hope as it sifts through the debris of its defeat in the Ijok by-election.

analysis On the surface, it is a contest between BN's K Parthiban and PKR's Khalid Ibrahim but there are bigger forces at work.

analysis Many things are at stake in this by-election - racial policies, debates on national issues and of course, personal issues surrounding the deputy premier.

analysis The end of the Machap by-election is also the beginning of new plans and strategies for the MCA and DAP.

analysis Due to the miscalculation of MCA's propaganda machinery, the mood in Machap is changing in favour of the opposition party.

analysis The party's chances of a victory are next to impossible. One key reason is that DAP is poorer than its rival MCA in terms of resources. There are other reasons too.

analysis Since PKR's inception, DAP has been on guard against the encroachment of its 'traditional territories' by the non-Malay - or to be more precise - the Chinese segment in PKR.