When China's President Xi Jinping announced the Global Development Initiative (GDI) at the United Nations in September 2021, reactions were split.

PUBLIC sentiment is hardening into a view that the government is under-delivering at a time when Malaysians are wrestling with rising prices, sluggish delivery of election promises, and the lingering effects of subsidy rationalisation.

I understand that your August articles have focused on the impact of ageing on sexual health.

Making every small issue a racial one and promoting divisiveness is not good for the country. Those who use politics of identity as a weapon must be stopped.

It's beyond the pale when a tragic death is used for political gain.

For victims of war, peace is more than the absence of fighting or the assessment of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

We've suffered some setbacks, but we've also taken some important steps forward.

FOR too long, bullying in Malaysia has been treated as an unfortunate rite of passage. It has long existed in school corridors and is laughed off in workplaces or shrugged away as office politics.