Permata Negara, yang diasaskan 20 tahun lalu ketika pendidikan awal kanak-kanak belum menjadi keutamaan nasional, kini diiktiraf sebagai antara legasi terpenting negara dalam membentuk potensi kanak-kanak, termasuk anak istimewa dan berbakat, serta mendapat pengiktirafan di peringkat antarabangsa.
Penubuhan Tabung Pembangunan Buku Negara (TPBN) oleh Yayasan Pembangunan Buku Negara (YPBN) menjadi langkah strategik memperkukuh budaya membaca, menyokong penulis tempatan dan memacu industri pembukuan negara dalam era pendigitalan.
The Palestinian in Old Free Palestine, the Hebrew and Aramaic speaking people declared by the Roman Empire in the Biblical Holy Land, having Jewish character, escapes the fate of the Arabic-speaking post-1948 Palestinian who may end up like the Philistinian in history!
Jew can no longer out-compete the others if everyone in the Biblical Holy Land habitually speaks Hebrew, and adopts Jewish culture as well, along with their original culture, literature, customs, traditions, rituals, attire, and local food!
Israel and India at the same time may draw closer than ever before on the Biblical Holy Land, based purely on the rule of law and bound by common values, as China signals that it can't be with the Jewish state for peace in the Middle East!
The future in the Biblical Holy Land isn't bound by the past, it's the present here and now that matters, based on the ground realities in Free Palestine!
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim must exercise point by point right of reply with PAS in particular on issues in conflict in the Biblical Holy Land, especially on the Hamas attack on 7 October, and not masquerade as Malaysia punching gung ho above puny weight in international affairs!
Netanyahu and Israel must be dragged before an International War Crimes Tribunal to be convened by the UN at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague
A judiciary cannot exist without the trust and confidence of the people. Judges must, therefore, be held accountable for legal and ethical standards - R S Thanenthiran