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The Columnists
What You Think
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Concerning statements by certain members of the Malaysian Bar on recent sexual misconduct allegations — The Young Lawyers Movement
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Another round of MCOs will cripple the tourism sector — Farhan Kamarulzaman
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Self-employed begging for help too! — Suzanne Lee
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Mission Reinvent — Rais Hussin Mohamed Ariff
More Opinions
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Anthony Mackie double feature with ‘Synchronic’ and ‘Outside The Wire’
JANUARY 23 — If you’re a casual movie fan, I’m sure you’d at least be familiar with Anthony Mackie’s face, if not his name. He’s undoubtedly most popular as...
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SPM 2020: Time to get it done
JANUARY 21 — As rites of passage go, in Malaysia generally it is Form 5 in school. Most of us, and those before us, had their schooling experience defined by what’s usually...
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People will go hungry again this MCO
JANUARY 20 — You would think after going through a movement control order (MCO), a conditional MCO (CMCO) and a recovery MCO (RMCO) we would have gotten this sort-of,...
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How picking out a pair of Jordans from the bin led to my friendship with ‘His Airness’
JANUARY 19 — Back when I was in junior high, everyone wanted the Jumpman IV’s but there was no chance we could afford a new pair of Jordans back in the day. A guy I knew had...
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Could mindfulness be the answer?
JANUARY 19 — It’s been a surreal year — a global pandemic, Brexit and the carnage left behind by Donald Trump’s presidency — and even the most composed among us is...
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Present, open and awake: Learning to meditate in a lockdown
JANUARY 18 — “Meditation can make the difference between standing outside in the storm and being blasted with rain, hail and wind and standing inside your house...
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Is Chinese Privilege a myth?
JANUARY 17 — At a panel discussion hosted by the Institute of Policy Studies, a Singaporean think tank, it was suggested that the idea of “Chinese Privilege”...
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Checking out three Oscar hopefuls from Netflix
JANUARY 16 ― Even after the strange year that was 2020, it looks like 2021 is already cooking up its own version of strangeness, with what happened at the Capitol and how Donald...
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PM can initiate all-party unity government
JANUARY 14 — With trepidation, my first national Emergency column. Though firsts matter less these days as Malaysia’s choked by firsts. Above all the firsts for the year —...
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'The Dissident' film: How many concessions must we make for evil?
JANUARY 13 — I spent the weekend watching Bryan Fogel's documentary on Jamal Khashoggi's murder, The Dissident. It is difficult to watch as it unflinchingly recounts the details...
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We should behave like it is 20,000 cases daily
JANUARY 11 — One of the reasons we managed to “flatten the curve” between April and June last year was because the country was made to behave as if the daily positive...
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Singapore’s privacy vs security dilemma
JANUARY 10 — This week, it emerged that the police will be able to access information gathered by Singapore’s Trace Together contact tracing system which was rolled out to...
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‘Soul’ and ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ — two major films in local cinemas right now
JANUARY 9 — There are films that do just fine being viewed in the comforts of your own home, whether through streaming, downloads or physical copies of the films. With...
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Mixed in to mix up Umno in the future? The story of biracial children
JANUARY 7 — Forget about Nueang Nandanagara. Look at the delegates at the Umno Assembly just ended. While they were busy busying about power and national mistrust, among them...
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‘Cuti-cuti’ pandemic: The new scourge
JANUARY 6 — Social media has been very depressing the past few weeks as I've had to open my pages to see various friends and acquaintances going on holiday. It seems the new...