The end of this year of change also heralds a new beginning for the writer.

We may be largely concerned with human rights issues, but there is an underclass of Malaysians whose basic needs must be addressed.

To be a developed nation we need to adopt more humanitarian policies and not give in to emotional responses.

When overlords kill men for speaking the truth, it means the people live in a world of lies.

Police brutality exists around the world, and ethnic minorities frequently bear the brunt of it.

I AM an atheist. I have mentioned it before but I am going to bring it up again because it’s relevant to this discussion.

Throughout the developed world, countries are liberalising marijuana laws but the message has yet to reach these shores.

“IT used to be so much better.”

IN 2006 I interviewed a visibly agitated Imran Khan. He was annoyed because he had come to Malaysia only to be met by a bunch of journalists who didn’t know who he was.

NEXT week – specifically on August 9 – the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People will be observed. It’s celebrated each year to “promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population and also recognises the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental protection”.

Veteran leftist Manuel Lopez Obrador may prove to be a foil for neighbour Trump, but his thumping victory came with a strange price.

GEORGE Orwell had a lot to teach us. His two monumental works are Animal Farm and 1984, the former a depiction of a glorious revolution gone wrong, the latter an all too realistic extrapolation of what life under a futuristic totalitarian regime would be like.