For years, we have been told that Selangor's local authorities are the gold standard.

IN my conversations with global investors, business leaders and policymakers, one theme increasingly stands out – namely how uncertain and even dangerous the world feels today compared to the last few years with all its tumults.

THESE are troubling times for media practitioners.

EVERY March, as a majority of the world's best golfers arrive at TPC Sawgrass in Florida, the same question often pops up without much prompting – should The Players Championship be considered golf's fifth Major?

BEIJING (Xinhua): China maintained a tough stance against various crimes in the past year and pledged to continue that momentum into the new year, according to the country's top judiciary officials.

BEIJING (Xinhua): With China's annual legislative and political consultative sessions, known as the "two sessions," underway in Beijing, foreign envoys and international journalists are closely watching the event for signals on the world's second-largest economy's development trajectory and its global implications.

BEIJING (Xinhua): With a draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan under examination and discussion by China's top legislature and political advisory body at their ongoing annual sessions, the new development roadmap is set to shape the country's pathways toward a modernisation that stands out in how it interacts with nature.

BEIJING (Xinhua): China's annual "two sessions" have drawn elevated global attention this year, as lawmakers prepare not only to set the agenda for the coming year but also to approve a plan that could shape the country's trajectory through the end of the decade.

BEIJING (Xinhua): The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, served and supported reform and development through high-quality legislation in the past year, according to a report.

EVERY war has a visible front line and an invisible one. The visible front in this conflict spans the skies of the Middle East, where successive waves of Iranian drones and missiles currently test the air defences of a US-Israeli coalition that expected a quick, surgical victory.

ELEVEN days into the strikes inflicted upon Iran, there is one conspicuous result: It is not going according to plan.

KUALA LUMPUR: Democracy is noisy, but social media is noisier. By almost any measure, one would think Malaysia is in perpetual crisis and even perceived to be a failed state if social media were the only lens through which we see the country.