IN any sporting arena, there are bound to be winners and losers. I refer to the ongoing saga of one of our better-known badminton players – Lee Zii Jia (pic).
ACCORDING to the World Meteorological Organisation and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, “climate change and increasingly extreme weather events have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past ...
I REFER to the alarming report by the former dean of University of Malaya Medical Faculty professor, Datuk Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman, that the country’s “best and brightest” medical graduates are fleeing ...
IT is said that one out of five in our country suffers from diabetes, which is quite alarming. It is an added strain on our already overstretched health resources.
I REFER to the current diminishing value of the ringgit. There are two sides to the coin of a weaker ringgit.Our weak ringgit means we have to fork out more to buy goods and services, and this means inflation ...
A FRIEND of mine recently had a harrowing ordeal trying to navigate her car in fast rising flood waters. Although unfamiliar to such situations, fortunately for her, she intuitively got out unscathed.
THE Education Ministry’s move to increase the annual recruitment of teachers to more than 5,000, from 4,000 previously, is lauded. The education minister said the recruitment of teachers “was a long-standing ...