LAST week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanded that Israel should do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza; but disappointingly, it stopped short of ordering an end to the ongoing offensive.

Malaysia needs a more robust police oversight structure than the existing Independent Police Conduct Commission to restore public trust and confidence.

MERRY Christmas! You can now have your cake, have your greetings written on it and show it off to anyone before you eat it. The controversial directive banning products displaying non-Islamic festive greetings has been withdrawn.

GAZA is “hell on earth” again with the expiry of the week-long truce between Israel and Hamas.

SOME things never change. When I was studying during the 1960s and 70s, truancy was the main disciplinary problem in Malaysian schools.

THE global indignation over the ongoing genocide against Pales­tinians trapped in Gaza is unprecedented.

THE rot in our police force is far worse than imagined but there is a glimmer of hope: It is no longer being swept under the carpet.

THE global price of rice has soared to a 15-year high after India, which accounts for 40% of the world’s rice trade, banned exports in July.

MOST people might not have noticed but the world took a major stride away from being unipolar towards becoming multipolar last week.

AMONG the viral messages shared after last Saturday’s state polls was one that ended with this grim prediction: “This is a tide no one can stop. Malaysia will become a complete Islamic State by 2027.”

OPPENHEIMER, a biopic on the turbulent life of “the father of the atomic bomb”, is poised to be one of the biggest movies this year.

Questions are being asked about who was really responsible for the downing of the plane after a judge was reprimanded for distributing a book with an alternative narrative of events.