THERE were some 81,764 Rohingya refugees in Malaysia as of November 2018, up from 52,569 in 2015 when the “violence” in Rakhine State was at its peak.

DEPUTY Education Minister Teo Nie Ching’s stand on the ministry’s “zero reject policy”, ie that no special needs child should be left out of mainstream...

YEAR in and year out there have been road safety campaigns especially in urban centres identified as hotspots but the number of fatal accidents keeps rising....

THE year ended a little sadly as I read about Divyang Hong, a guy of Chinese and Indian parentage, who was rejected from renting a room because the landlord...

MALAYSIA needs to reaffirm a clear stand on bilingualism which was implemented as the MBM-MBI policy in 2010: Memartabatkan Bahasa Malaysia dan Memperkukuh...

FORECASTS by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and several economists suggest Singapore’s economy could experience slower growth this year. Three teasing...

SIXTY years of the Barisan Nasional’s dominance has helped breed corruption in the country.

The previous government failed to cleanse the nation of this...

THE Ministry of Health has been the focus of media attention with its no-smoking campaign in all eateries.

It has earned the wrath of smokers and the gratitude...

THE spate of comments on the king’s abdication is normal, even human to the rakyat jolted out of their normal daily life.

Not everyone can put their words...

AFTER US President Donald Trump withdrew from Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), involving 12 countries on the Pacific rim, on his first day in office,...