LAST week, my 11-year-old daughter Apsara asked me what Merdeka was. She was preparing for a Merdeka-themed drawing competition at her school.

Opportunity has come knocking for Sabahans working in the Klang Valley to show their entrepreneurial side.

TWO Malaysians were involved in a fender bender on a highway in Selangor. It ended up with one of them getting killed.

‘National’ issues are distracting us from celebrating our national events as a united nation.

Schooling a male government senator on the real world of violence against women.

Watch out for that sugar intake or risk health complications later on.

PEOPLE have asked me which television series best represents contemporary Malaysian politics.

WITH Bohey Dulang island in the background, a 30-something divemaster checked his surroundings.

ON A morning when I was pumped up with Malaysian politics, I watch­ed the rehearsal of OYIF (On Your Imaginary Forces), named after a line from William Shakes­peare’s play Henry V.

CAN a secondary school teacher cane a student for allegedly calling him “Ah qua lao shi” (ladyboy teacher)?

When southern Philippines is a prosperous neighbour, then perhaps cross-border abductions will stop.

In the age of sophisticated aI technology, you wonder if the sex video is real or doctored.