Updated 4:45pm, 11 Feb 2010 SUNGAI Siput Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj‘s response to the MP Watch: Eye on Parliament project, which asks all 222 MPs six questions. Name: Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj Constituency: Sungai Siput Party: Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM, opposition) Years as MP: Since 2008 Government position: None Party position: Founding [...]

ALOR Star Member of Parliament (MP) Datuk Chor Chee Heung responds to the MP Watch: Eye on Parliament project, which asks all 222 MPs six questions.  Three of the questions were selected by readers and three others by The Nut Graph. (Source: Wiki commons) Name: Chor Chee HeungConstituency: Alor Star Party: MCAYears as MP: Since [...]

Khairy, after he was elected Umno Youth chief during party elections in March 2009 (Pic courtesy of theSun) KHAIRY Jamaluddin wasn’t the clear favourite when he was elected Umno Youth chief. A jeering crowd accused him of bribery after he trounced two other contenders in the party elections in March 2009. But Khairy has emerged [...]

IS Umno Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin crafting a new image for himself? Gone are the years when he was dogged by rumours of scandal while his father-in-law, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, was prime minister. Indeed, there is a new, though still emerging, picture of the 34-year-old politician. But what is this emerging identity all about? [...]

IF you had a chance to ask just one question of all our MPs regarding how they view our democracy and what they would do about it, what would it be? Through a project called MP Watch: Eye on Parliament, The Nut Graph invites readers to better know the 222 Members of Parliament (MPs) and [...]

DESPITE all the madness in 2009, it was a year in which Malaysians saw positive changes on two important fronts: ethnic relations and good governance. A good example, notwithstanding the initial flip-flopping, is the federal government’s decision to revamp the racist and fascist content of the Biro Tata Negara courses after being forced to by [...]