As our healthcare system comes under increasing strain, let us not publicly ‘celebrate’ our frontliners while silencing their voices and turning a deaf ear to their pleas for help.

As someone who works in communications, the columnist offers some perspectives on the effects of what people say, and how they say it.

While we keep thinking about the best ways to do system-wide aid, let’s not forget the power of inspiring each other to do small good deeds.

#BangsaMalaysia can only be built based on shared values. Maybe first among those should be: we take care of one another.

What kind of democracy and behaviour does our current political system incentivise?

YOUNG people, paradoxically, could be the secret ingredient needed to make Malaysian politics more mature.

PRIME Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s latest call for Malays to unite under a single political party (his) has raised some eyebrows.

IF the bill reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 passes in Parliament, one group of voters for GE15 could be as young as 15 years old today.

The government’s anxiety in the face of kid’s play betrays insecurity, paranoia, and a totalitarian bent.

THE Attorney General and the Royal Malaysian Police have now reclassified their investigation into the death of Teoh Beng Hock, who died in the custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commision (MACC), almost 10 years ago.

POLITICAL gossip-mongering has gone into overdrive, reaching a fever pitch.

TWO controversies beset Malaysia in this last week or two. One involved the deaths of multiple Orang Asli in Kelantan, and the other involving a sex video.