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The Columnists
What You Think
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Government should give clear directions on whether AstraZeneca vaccine is safe for pregnant women ― Yeo Bee Yin
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I stand with Ain too ― Amir Azfar Shahidan
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If Muhyiddin is Malaysia’s first wartime prime minister ― Hafiz Hassan
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Breaking peace Into pieces: The shards and shrapnels can only hurt Israel ― Rais Hussin
More Opinions
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When MCO means 'must come office'
MAY 6 — So MCO 3.0 (for Selangor) is here. As usual, we’ll await government SOPs, crack our heads over which district lines can be crossed, witness a few people get fined...
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Bersatu’s post-Muhyiddin power vacuum riddle
MAY 6 — The moment Bersatu launched in 2016, the countdown began. A demise always threatening. Perhaps, eventually vanish the way of Semangat 46, the other Umno splinter party...
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It scares me how many people are scared of the vaccine
MAY 5 — I spent last weekend waging a war with the national vaccine information website, trying to book an appointment for the controversial AstraZeneca jab. Who knew...
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Covid-19 strikes back
MAY 2 — Just when you thought it had been defeated. After all, vaccination drives in Israel, the UK and USA appeared to be working well. Cases in...
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Covid-19, beyond numbers
MAY 2 — Recently we had a Covid-19 patient in her mid-seventies. Her condition had deteriorated rapidly — requiring ICU care, then breathing support, before dying just a few...
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Labour waits for leadership
APRIL 29 — It’s 3am in the morning, it’s when my father gets home. I’m a taxi and government driver’s son. If that upsets you, I have a different idea: jump into a well....
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Of vertigo and the unpredictability of the human condition
APRIL 28 — Talking to a friend one night, she asked me: "What do you want?" I did not really have an answer and told her I would sleep on it. The next morning, I woke up,...
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Enter Lawrence Wong as leading contender for prime minister of Singapore
APRIL 25 — Singapore has just announced a major Cabinet reshuffle. Seven of Singapore’s ministries will get new ministers. The reshuffle comes in the wake...
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My Oscar predictions for 2021
APRIL 24 ― Two big factors have more or less rendered useless the many previously established rules/markers that have been used to predict Oscar winners: the Covid-19 pandemic...
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PAS the lamb in Bersatu-Umno spat
APRIL 22 — The minister spoke truth. A PAS minister at that! "Which party does not want to expand its area of control?" Uttered by the plantations and commodity minister it...
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More curbs on the media ahead?
APRIL 21 — In the continuing saga of my baking adventures, I’ve been too busy making pâte à choux to think about incompetent politicians or troubling new developments....
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Corruption in Malaysia 'not yet a pandemic'? Really?
APRIL 20 — Recently, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Commissioner Azam Baki declared that corruption in Malaysia is worrying but “not yet a...
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Cheering on Dogecoin to the moon
APRIL 18 — The last few weeks has seen me make my most successful investment... ever. I am up over 600 per cent. What did I buy? Some fantastic leveraged trade...
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‘The Reckoning’ and ‘Happily’: Two new genre movies worth investigating
APRIL 17 — The Oscars are arriving next week on April 26 and I’ve still got a few more films to catch, especially the ones in the animated and foreign language categories, so...
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A former alcoholic shares his story
APRIL 15 — A few months ago, I wrote about Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias and how, possibly, he was afflicted by sexual addiction. Since then, I have received numerous...