Author: Francis Paul Siah

Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. – Eddie Rickenbacker, US fighter pilot OF course, I am in total support of Premier Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg’s proposed Sarawak boutique airline. Why not, when I wanted Sarawak to have one

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many. – Publilius Syrus, Latin writer SINCE April 7, after the UMNO supreme council announced that it has unanimously decided to apply for a royal pardon for former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, there has been no end to the pardon

THE story of cancer patient Lina Samuel whose identity card (MyKad) was reported to have been confiscated by the Lawas office of the National Registration Department (NRD) baffles me. Reading the story in Malaysiakini last Sunday, I find it perplexing because there are just too many questions needing answers. That

THE death penalty is not actually a subject that is alien to me. I believe I must have written on capital punishment several times over the past decade or so. My stand is this and it remains the same to this day. I advocate that the death penalty stays; just

IF you are a member of a political party which is not in power, I believe you do not expect any reward of any kind. What do you expect to get when even your party leaders have nothing? Without political power and when your party is not even a part

ACTUALLY, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin should not be having sleepless nights because everyone knows that he is innocent until proven guilty. That is how the law works. If it is the negative public perception that the former prime minister is worried about, then he should take solace that another former

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has every right to join any political party he wishes, even at the age of 98. That’s his democratic right. No one should deny him that sacred right. However, it is the silly statements he made, and his racist rants which irritate, annoy and anger many.