The nation has turned 61, and it is ‘ageing’. But from the looks of it, it is not getting better with age. Instead, we seem to be on a downhill slope.

IT’S time to talk about football. Even the Prime Minister is doing so. He says he loves two football teams – Manchester United and obviously the national team to whom he has just given RM15mil.

I WAS a rookie reporter when I was called to the now-condemned Pekeliling Flats in Kuala Lumpur – on the eve of Deepavali.

HERE’S a geography trivia question. Where exactly is St Lucia?

IT is the Feast of St Anne, a weekend when Christians in Penang flock to the church – now a minor basilica – in Bukit Mertajam.

While everyone has faith in the police protecting the public, have the cops lost faith in protecting themselves?

Malaysians are the world’s biggest consumers of plastics.

LAST Friday, hundreds of journalists gathered at the Majestic Hotel in Kuala Lumpur to fete the best among them. There were plenty of awards, good food and camaraderie. And the Prime Minister was in attendance.

From the UiTM dispute to the annual matriculation issue, Malaysia seems caught in a loop of racial controversy. But there are those who give us hope.

Orang utan, who share 97% of our DNA, are very like humans. They are not toys to be gifted to anyone. Instead, we should be working on giving them a better life in their natural habitat.

THERE I was, trapped in a car with half a dozen policemen – and a policewoman – some of them armed. They were menacing and they wanted my money, all of it!

The community has been helped a lot, says the Prime Minister. But is he right? The reality on the ground looks different.