With the national debt in the state that it’s in, we simply can’t afford to turn away well-meaning foreign investment.

IT’S a subject most Malaysians, and that includes prominent civil rights advocates, shy away from – the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) conundrum is regarded too controversial, taboo even.

BY Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s admission, the Pakatan Harapan didn’t expect to win the general election. So, the new federal government is finding itself biting more than it can chew having made “too many promises”, and is now struggling to fulfil its election pledges.

THE antics of Kinabatangan MP Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin at the Dewan Rakyat are familiar to most of us.

The civil service makes up the backbone of any nation, yet the concept of its implementation continues to elude some of the powers that be.

IT must now have dawned on Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik that he sits in a hot seat. A role as university lecturer is a different ball game altogether from heading an entire ministry.

How a vile act like child marriage has continued to proliferate is not only shocking, but sad, too.

There are many bigger fish to fry, yet, age-old preoccupations continue to keep us hot and bothered.

THE proceedings at the High Courts are conducted mostly in English, as it is a language that many of our senior lawyers and judges, regardless of their race, are accustomed to.

In a world fixated with stereotypes, Siti Kasim smashes the mould of convention and defines what our New Malaysia desperately needs.

Japan may have led Malaysia’s Look East policy of yore, but the stakes are heavily tipped in China’s favour now as the leader of the new world order.

Superfluous titles and awards may have started the rot, but in a new Malaysia, there is little room for delusions of grandeur.