3+ hour, 25+ min ago   (630+ words) AUGUST 7 — Few political ideas in Malaysia possess greater emotional appeal than the call for “Malay-Muslim unity”. It is invoked during elections, moments of political instability and periods of economic uncertainty. Its advocates present it as self-evidently necessary for national stability…...

4+ hour, 55+ min ago   (386+ words) AUGUST 7 — To say that this concept of a local council election is new to Malaysia would be a gross fallacy. In December of 1956, George Town had its fully elected council which was run by the Alliance, the predecessor to the…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago   (630+ words) AUGUST 7 — Few political ideas in Malaysia possess greater emotional appeal than the call for “Malay-Muslim unity”. It is invoked during elections, moments of political instability and periods of economic uncertainty. Its advocates present it as self-evidently necessary for national stability…...

17+ hour, 52+ min ago   (211+ words) HONG KONG, Aug 6 — Renowned Hong Kong lyricist Peter Lai, who spearheaded the city’s golden era of Cantonese pop music, has died aged 76, his family and friends said today. Lai was hospitalised after suffering a stroke this year and passed away…...

1+ day, 42+ min ago   (439+ words) SHAH ALAM, Aug 6 — The demand for data centres in Selangor has so far not placed pressure on domestic water supply, particularly in densely populated areas, said state Investment, Trade and Mobility Committee chairman Ng Sze Han. He said the state…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (898+ words) AUGUST 6 — I’ve been walking around disoriented these past days. Mostly in traipses to rid persistent cliches chucked into conversations online and in-person about the Negeri Sembilan election, which ostensibly rolls into Johor before landing flat in last year’s Sabah polls....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (427+ words) KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 — Efforts to strengthen national security must not come at the expense of human rights, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department for Law and Institutional Reform M. Kulasegaran said. He said both priorities must advance together through…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (836+ words) AUGUST 5 — In late May 2020, the outrage-soaked social media landscape amplified a chaotic 17-second video. Shot in darkness from a shaky, first-person perspective, the footage allegedly showed protesters burning down a store in Minneapolis. It conveyed a sense of raw truth…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (618+ words) AUG 5 — Media people are a judgy bunch. It comes with the job. A journalist with poor judgement won’t be a journalist for long. So when I saw another newspaper post screencaps of Hospital Kuala Lumpur’s urinals overflowing with bodily waste,…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (559+ words) LLANTRISANT, (UK), Aug 5 — At the heart of Britain’s coin factory, old Bank of England telephones are stripped down and dipped into giant vats to recover a hidden treasure: the gold in their circuits. Behind barbed wire and coded security gates…...