Not just America’s sweetheart: Taylor Swift performing at a shopping festival gala in Shanghai, China. – AFP
Our self-appointed guardians of morality do not realise that getting big musical acts to perform in Malaysia will give our post-pandemic recovery a huge boost.
THE announcement that Malaysia has moved up to Tier 2 Watch List of the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2023 is a welcome respite from all the negativity that’s been swirling around us recently.
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