Thursday, 8 January 2026

Category: Column

Truly a painful loss

The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor. — Bangambiki Habyarimana, writer and blogger I was truly shocked

Public health our joint responsibility

The only way we can destroy this common invisible enemy is through solidarity and cooperation. The world needs to come together to coordinate efforts and

My right arm has been cut off

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here. –Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author It

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Fearsome freedoms

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. — George Orwell, English novelist

Of old magazines and newspapers

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist Yesterday, I woke

Mourning loss of our police heroes

Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. — George Orwell, English

A day of plain truth

As a tribute to the New Sarawak Tribune’s late deputy executive editor Jimmy Adit, we are rerunning his last column which appeared in the May