Tongues are wagging in Putrajaya over an unexpected choice for the new Chief Secretary to the Government. The ‘dark horse’ must nip the gossip in the bud and quickly show leadership of Malaysia’s 1.6 million civil servants.

In Thailand, it’s been a cycle of elections, coups, removals of prime ministers, new PMs, and another election. Rinse and repeat.

It’s no longer a man’s world and high time gender equality bared its fangs for a better Malaysia.

POLITICS is a strange game. Politicians, who are friends in Putrajaya are not necessarily friends outside the corridors of power.

THE dust has settled after the Olympic Games in Paris. Or has it?

THE hard work must start now.

SOMETHING ugly is happening to Malaysia. We have a group of citizens who belong to a particular political party declaring other ­citizens as “enemies of Islam”.

I WAS interested in your article last week about the ambiguous genitalia caused by excessive male hormones in girls.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are spearheading a refreshing brand of genuineness and authenticity in politics.

Interesting moves are being made by one side of the fight in the next by-election.

The US wrote the economic script for decades, but it’s China that’s producing the blockbusters now.