Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Category: Column

My long journey as tourism trainer

In 1991, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism organised a train-the-trainer programme under a European Community project with Asean countries, which I attended and started

Promises, dashed hopes and U-turns

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

House of four ‘kids’

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honours. – Tia Walker, American blogger I live in a house

Battle royale on the cards

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads. – DaShanne Stokes, American scholar of politics, culture, and civil

Turn bus stops into safe haven

Recently, a Facebook post by user Yap Swee Seng went viral. It showed a fancy and expensive bus stop newly built near the Kuala Lumpur

‘Langkau’ addiction a great concern

As a result of “chap langkau” (locally brewed alcoholic drink) Abuk (not his real name), an elderly grandfather, slipped and hurt both legs when coming