Former Singapore Prime Minister LKY had formula, based on ruthless 'heads must fall' approach, for greater efficiency, leaders in Japan would commit hara-kiri (ritual suicide by disembowelment) if they ‘bring shame to the Company, people and the nation’!
Tan Sri Azhar Harun's speech at the Media Townhall titled “Getting the Facts Right: The Untold Stories of 1MDB and Other Cases” shed light on the powers of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong under the Federal Constitution, while offering clarification on the ongoing controversy surrounding the judicial review and petition for the pardon of Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Sabah and Sarawak, always against Anwar Ibrahim, would probably find it difficult accepting another Decree by Agong on the prime ministership if the incumbent remains in the saddle!
It would be contradiction in terms if Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim seizes accumulated capital, whether impossible wealth or otherwise. He commits political suicide!
The war in Ukraine and sanctions on Russia have disrupted elements of grain and fertiliser, driving up food prices at a time when inflation was once already raging....
"The unhappy person is one who has his ideal, the content of his life, the fullness of his consciousness, the essence of his being, in some manner outside of himself. The unhappy man is always absent from himself, never present to himself. But one can be absent, obviously, either in the past or in the future. This adequately circumscribes the entire territory of the unhappy consciousness."
As 2021 comes to a close, Joel Wijesuria reflects on these words, written almost two centuries ago by Søren Kierkegaard. and adds his thoughts on living in the present.
As Malaysia is still in its third Movement Control Order (MCO) final-year students are facing anxiety over job prospects upon graduation. No longer can...
The Economics Of Grandmothers As Told By Zam Yahaya
Since the beginning of the MCO in the middle of March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the...