Filed under: News Morrissey has ignited yet another racism row following some emotional comments towards the Chinese during an interview. The outspoken former Smiths frontman was being interviewed by the poet Simon Armitage for the Guardian Weekend magazine when the topic turned to animal rights, leading the singer to call the Chinese "a subspecies" for their alleged cruelty to animals. The full ...

KUALA LUMPUR - DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang has urged the Najib administration to launch a "Say No to Racism" campaign to combat the escalating racial and religious tension.

The PM has just been reported by theMalaysianInsider Sept 6th under caption “Najib warns against questioning Social Contract” to having “reminded the people today against questioning provisions in the constitution, particularly those related to the “Social Contract”….. The expression “Racism” is by its ordinary grammatical and ordinary meaning, a reference to discrimination (or prejudice) based ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 — DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng today blamed Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for failing to act on reports of racism in the civil service over the past weeks. Lim said that the move by the Education Ministry’s Director-General Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom in issuing a circular on August 26, warning that ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 — DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang challenged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today to prove his sincerity in combating racism by launching a nationwide “Say No to Racism” campaign. Noting that the government still refused to succumb to public pressure to take action against the two school principals accused of uttering racial ...

By FMT Staff ALOR STAR: The federal government has been urged to put in place quickly a mechanism to counter race issues in the country, particularly in relation to teachers and racist politicians. Bukit Selambau assemblyman S Manikumar said Malaysians were becoming overly-sensitive and traumatised by recent incidents, which should not have occurred in the first place. “We must think quickly of ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 — A victim of race abuse, allegedly told to “return to China” by a police officer, today said she had lodged a report against the offender to demand her due respect as a citizen of Malaysia. “I lodged the report because I want him to respect us, citizens, especially him being an inspector,” said 51-year-old Loh See Mooi ...

IS the number plate "ARYAN 1" racist? No! New Zealand officials have allowed a motorist to keep her licence plate "ARYAN 1" because it was intended as a gesture of affection towards her former partner (Andrew Ryan), not a statement of white supremacy .

I REFER to Andrew Hwang's letter "When it's not all about race" (NST, Aug 30). Hwang suggested that the Mandarin requirement for jobs was not racial discrimination.

Here's one man's opinion of the 50 most influential people in boxing history.

KUALA LUMPUR – Dr Mahathir Mohamed has finally admitted the practice of racism and discrimination exists in the government system, said Hindraf national coordinator W. Sambulingam.

At least 77,000 people demonstrated across France on Saturday in protest at the government's policy of deporting Roma people. Demonstrators in Paris carried a placard depicting President Nicolas Sarkozy in a fez cap, and declaring "No to state racism!".

Rooful Ali is an accountant who commutes, "suited and booted," to his corporate office in London from Northamptonshire, England, where he grew up in a Bangladeshi family. His avocation is photography. But he also finds time to direct the first Europe-wide association of Muslim professionals.

Dato' Mohd.Ariff Sabri bin Hj. Abdul Aziz For the past few days I have written several articles about racism in Malaysia. My objective is to see the extent of racism in our country. My report is, racism is extensive and it exists openly and subtly. We see things in our respective race-blinkered lenses. Every Malaysian has his quotient of ethnicity. We have to learn to live with this fact. We can ...

Marine Le Pen is moving her father’s rabble-rousing, far-right party away from the fringe, and redefining French politics in the process.

KUALA LUMPUR – Dr Mahathir Mohamed has finally admitted the practice of racism and discrimination exists in the government system, said Hindraf national coordinator W. Sambulingam.

KUALA LUMPUR - A police inspector who allegedly told a 51-year-old snatch theft victim to "balik China" (return to China) if she could not speak Bahasa Malaysia is being investigated.

Dato' Mohd.Ariff Sabri bin Hj. Abdul Aziz For the past few days I have written several articles about racism in Malaysia. My objective is to see the extent of racism in our country. My report is, racism is extensive and it exists openly and subtly. We see things in our respective race-blinkered lenses. Every Malaysian has his quotient of ethnicity. We have to learn to live with this fact. We can ...

AFTER the recent racism issues, controversial rapper, Wee Meng Chee, widely known as Namewee, is back in the news with his latest rendition, targetting racial extremism.

Master M is more than a rightist spiritual leader, he also doubles up as a master of extreme rightist theories. He has recently come up with the theory that meritocracy is a form of racism, and that the advocates of meritocracy are racists.