Friday, 16 January 2026

Category: Column

2020 a year to remember

Remember, after the rain, comes the sun. And better days will be here again. — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Malaysian Prime Minister. It is 18

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Unmasking the unknown

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors. — Jim Morrison, American singer and songwriter The germ warfare

Fake news or misinformation?

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly  — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley, English writer

Pricey, edible aquatic gold

Don’t give a child a fish but show him how to fish. — Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China. Many consider the

Turbulence in our skies

The worst isn’t behind any airline. Airlines need to be supported by their governments to survive. – Akbar Al Baker, chief executive officer of Qatar

Pay peanuts and you get monkeys …

To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can

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The Chagos chokehold

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly. — David H. Hackworth, American military journalist In 1964, American and

King Ritchie goes AWOL

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist, ethologist and popular-science writer