Category: Opinion

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

Office of profit

By Dr C Navin Naidu An “office of profit” means a position that brings to the person holding it some financial gain, or advantage, or benefit. 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

One-stop centres to attract visitors

Long before the Covid-19 outbreak, Malaysians were often reminded to travel within the country instead of heading overseas because our local attractions are just as

Party hopping

BY DR NAVIN C NAIDU Party hopping has become crucial today exacerbated by a insidious razor-thin temporary majority, perhaps, enjoyed by the PN government, and

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

Karma — what goes around comes around

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results. –Sakyong Mipham,