ON Aug 6, a mother of three took her own life in her Subang Jaya home in Selangor after being cyberbullied on social media. The 44-year-old reportedly received a barrage of hateful comments about her appearance and handbag collection when she uploaded some videos on TikTok.

THE move to impose heavier penalties on mat rempit, with a RM10,000 fine, jail time and higher insurance to curb this road menace, is something all thinking Malaysians would surely welcome.

THE good news is that the long-awaited Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill, also known as the “Generational End Game” (GEG), was tabled in the Dewan Rakyat last Wednesday.

THE passing of the Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill by the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday was a milestone in what has been more than a two-decade-long push by women’s rights groups for a law that protects victims of harassment and gives them a channel to report violations they’ve experienced.

HAVE you noticed that service is irritatingly slow at your favourite mamak restaurant? Don’t complain, just be glad that it’s still open.

MALAYSIA and other countries in the Western Pacific region are currently experiencing the La Nina phenomenon.

ON Friday, Malaysia reported its highest food inflation rate in 11 years.

YOU know the drill. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the standard operating procedures (SOP) to fight the virus have been repeated on all channels until everyone should know them by heart now.

TODAY is the day much of the world celebrates fathers.

PERHAPS we all need a refresher in this country’s history since we seem to have forgotten how we started as a nation.

IN an increasingly borderless world, multilingualism is becoming more and more important – which is why now is not the time to limit ourselves linguistically because it would also mean limiting ourselves economically, technologically and scientifically.

WE are feeling the pinch as our food prices have been rising in recent weeks.