Afghans face an uncertain future
Many questions remain unanswered for a country known as the ‘graveyard of empires’.
Size matters when it comes to gold
For Malaysia to win that elusive Olympics medal, we have to get into the mode of winning.
Recover, we must, from Covid-19
I LIKE the analogy of a football game. When players perform a dismal display during the first half, the coach must make tough decisions. He needs to relook his strategy. More importantly, he must bring in alternative players. He must discard any notion of hurting the feelings of even his best and most expensive players. It is about winning.
Resetting our political construct
THERE was once a contrarian in Malaysian politics. He carried no baggage nor expectations of any political party unlike his other colleagues in Selangor.
Game plan to exit pandemic vital
A good strategy comes from a well-coordinated, well-thought out and people-friendly policies, concocted collectively by the best brains in various expertise and disciplines. When there is so much uncertainty, incoherence and despair in the air, the country can’t move far.
Communication is everything
As the country is still dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, the government needs to rethink how to get its message across to the people.
Now’s the chance to get it right
A FEW days before the national lockdown was announced, the social media platforms of the Mentri Besar of Selangor posted a question: Is the movement control order (MCO) necessary now?
A nation of willing executioners?
BACK in September 2006, in my column in the New Straits Times, I wrote on the book Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
All quiet in the kampung
As Malaysians celebrate Hari Raya this week, the balik kampung tradition will have to be given a miss again. However, our thoughts can still carry us home.
Learning morality from literature
WHAT makes Sophocles’ play Antigone so relevant even today? The old world of Greek kings and gods may sound distant to us.
Imperial ambitions of tech giants
IN one of the senate hearings in Washington, DC, in April 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked by Senator Dick Durbin where he stayed the night before. Would Zuckerberg be comfortable to share it with him? Zuckerberg understandably said no after a long pause.
‘Almost an obsession’
TO commemorate Malaysia Day’s 50th anniversary in 2007, Mohd Noor Mat Amin planned something incredible.
