Thinking aloud in harmony


New approach: The national harmony bills can help foster unity and safeguard harmony while protecting people's right to freedom of speech. — AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PRESERVE our unity and national harmony – that message has been ubiquitous recently, especially during National Day last month and Malaysia Day yesterday.

As Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah said in his National Day greeting on social media, it is our collective duty to build unity, which is also “the main key to the stability and prosperity of the country”.

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