All a society in jitters needs is the courage to slow down


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  • Saturday, 18 Oct 2025

Are our schools still a place we can entrust our children to? That has been a question Malaysians have persistently asked ever since the tragic killing of Yap Shing Xuen.

And the infuriated public have started to toss in other recent cases of suicide, bullying and gang rape involving students, and have wanted Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek to take full responsibility and resign.

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