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?

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.

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.

WHAT makes Sophocles’ play Antigone so relevant even today? The old world of Greek kings and gods may sound distant to us.

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.

TO commemorate Malaysia Day’s 50th anniversary in 2007, Mohd Noor Mat Amin planned something incredible.

The Oprah Winfrey interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will be remembered for a long time.

I AM 67-year and 113-day old today. My next birthday will only be in November. I am just in the mood to do some arithmetic, considering there is not much else to do, being “caged” under the movement control order.

PRESIDENT Joko Widodo (Jokowi) of Indonesia has promised to allocate 5,000 vaccines as priority for those working in the media.

No one has the answer when the Covid-19 pandemic will end. The road towards normalcy will take a bit of time.

INFLAMMATORY rhetoric polari­ses. It draws blood too. We have seen that countless times in the history of humankind.

After a year of shock, uncertainties and despair, ‘hope’ is the only meaningful word for 2021.