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Back to the exam hall: A wake-up call for Malaysian education - Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi Mohd Zainuri

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- The halls of the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) echoed with a definitive shift in the nation's academic trajectory as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim... Read More


The grammar of belonging - David Yoong

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- One of the things I learnt early on as a student of linguistics is the concept of semantic markedness. Consider the phrase "male nurse". Because the role of nurse is stereoty... Read More


Meet the locally-assembled 2026 Proton e.MAS 7 SKD: Same EV, more kit, less cash

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 -- Pro-Net has announced the availability of the 2026 Proton e.MAS 7. Locally assembled in Proton's EV plant at Tanjung Malim, this particular version offers additional features ... Read More


A promising reform, but the hard work starts now - Andrew Woon

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- Malaysia's decision to allow children to begin preschool at age five and give parents the option of enrolling them in Standard One at age six or seven marks a significant turn... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Where I find out my 'expensive' cancer is a bargain

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- Every so often someone reaches out to ask me questions about public healthcare, questions that I do my best to answer. A woman said her relative was facing charges of RM22,00... Read More


Set to be tabled early this year, will the Freedom of Information Bill really guarantee transparency?

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 -- While Malaysia awaits the tabling of a federal Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, the states of Selangor and Penang remain the only two territories in the country where citizen... Read More


Stateless his whole life, 38-year-old Perak man wants to be Malaysian; says late mother born pre-Merdeka should have been citizen too

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 -- Perak-born Velmurugan, 38, has lived in Malaysia his whole life as a stateless person and just wants to be recognised as a Malaysian. Being stateless has caused him much emot... Read More


MACC to charge ex-Army chief, former Armed Forces chief this week over corruption and money laundering

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- PETALING JAYA, Jan 21 - The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will charge former army chief, General Tan Sri Muhammad Hafizuddeain Jantan and former Armed Forces chi... Read More


The anatomy of the most intimate violence - Haezreena Begum Abdul Hamid

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- The country was recently shaken by the arrest of a medical doctor accused of killing his wife and young son. A man entrusted with healing is now alleged to have extinguished ... Read More


Let's all be careful with the argument of colonial boomerang: it has always been there since 1945 - Phar Kim Beng

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- Regardless of what has been said about American designs on Greenland - or even without personalising the issue around President Donald Trump - the underlying reality is far mo... Read More