VIOLENT protests in Venezuela which started in April are set to further intensify with a steady increase in casualties. The nationwide demonstrations are demanding for early elections to attest President Nicolas Maduro's presidential mandate in the backdrop of a devastating economic downturn.
MARAWI was not known to the world at large until recently. It is a scenic city in Mindanao that is popular among the locals. To the Muslims it is better known as an Islamic city in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
It houses the Mindanao State University main campus where many Christian students enrol to study alongside their Muslim counterparts.
"I HAVE some pretty severe things we're thinking about," Trump said of North Korea in Warsaw last week. "Doesn't mean we're going to do them."
What President Trump really meant is that he has painted the US into a corner with all his threats of war and really does not know what to do next. North Korea called his "or else" bluff. Good.
PICKING up from where I left in my column on Global Gender Gap Report where the World Economic Forum (WEF) quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress, with a focus on the relative gaps between women and men in four key areas: health, education, economy and politics.
THE characterisation of human nature often transcends time. As portrayed by Shakespeare's Angelo in his play, Measure for Measure. Arguing for a strict application of the law, he advises: "We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror".
OVER the weekend, news broke of a disabled man and his family living out of their car after being evicted from their rented home. The Johor family of nine now live in a car parked at rest areas, while both parents are working for what I can only hope is a minimum wage.
IT WAS a storm in a teacup. The 23 doctors at the centre of the controversy could have been required to sit for and pass the Bahasa Malaysia paper of the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) right at the outset before they were hired on a contractual basis. They should not have been allowed any waiver.
PATIENCE is not a virtue at Stamford Bridge. It never has been during the Trotsky-like 'permanent revolution' era of Roman Abramovich. But it is patience Chelsea fans need right now.
For a club that cruised so comfortably to last season's title, the summer has morphed from mild unease to mounting frustration.
PERHAPS nowhere else in the world is clean water wasted as glaringly as in Malaysia. The average Malaysian’s appreciation of the real value of water is said to be the lowest despite the fact that for all intents and purposes water is life’s most precious resource.
Much of the world is facing a water crisis or acute shortages.
