Saturday, 17 January 2026

Category: Column

LOCKDOWNS! WERE THEY NECESSARY?

We are now open for business! Yes, since April 1 2022, our borders have opened up, and most restrictions on businesses have been lifted. Some

Wow, RM95 mln! Jiak beh liao!!!

I despise the lottery. There’s less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

When prevention is better than cure

WE are all familiar with the conventional saying that “prevention is better than cure”. In these times of uncertainty driven by the outbreak of the

Home is indeed where the heart is

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.

The education dilemma

It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. —  Frederick Douglass, American activist It is no secret that government has taken control

Has PSB lost its allure?

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. – Charles W. Pickering, politician and former US

Is this it?

 A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure. – Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state At some point in our

The drums of war are beating

It was close to midnight on March 5, 2022, at Tanjung Batu in Bintulu, Sarawak when I finished composing a poem. One through which I

SARAWAK CHINESE – VILLAINS AND HEROES 

‘Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives

UNRIVALLED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 ‘Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.’ — Johann Wolfgang Bon Goethe  Our Iban community is known