As always Zaid Ibrahim continues to fascinate us with his arguments. Here is his latest blog post which will certainly stimulate your thoughts. He tells us: My son Ezra loves books. Even in primary school he was already reading books on a wide range of subjects. When he graduated, I suggested to him that we…
What is Volkswagen accused of? It’s been dubbed the “diesel dupe”. The German car giant has admitted cheating emissions tests in the US. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), some cars being sold in America had devices in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested, changing the performance accordingly to improve…
On Monday there was a human rights seminar on shariah. I knew about it quite late and it became prominent yesterday through http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/…/ask-right-questions-in…. For those unaware, Aston Paiva is a human rights lawyer who acted in the controversial Negeri Sembilan transgender case against the religious authorities. Lawyer Lukman Sheriff Alias has his say: I…
This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping is making his first official visit to the US. It takes place against a background of accusations flung by both the US and China over state-backed hacking. BBC’s Mark Ward reports: On Monday this week, a US national security adviser warned China that the hacking must stop and said…
In September 2015, the body of a three-year-old Syrian boy was found floating on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Photographs of the boy were quick to get circulated world over, and the world responded with a massive outcry over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis. This video, by In a Nutshell, speaks about…
FOR starters let’s get our terminology straight … It’s not HAZE, it’s SMOG – thick smothering SMOG! Cecil Rajendra explains: According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), haze is a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere caused by particles of dust, etc. Smog, however, is defined as fog or haze intensified by smoke or other…
In a heartfelt Facebook message, former Wanita Umno chief Rafidah Aziz appealed to the people, on the eve of Malaysia Day, to discard their differences and come together as one to uphold all that the Jalur Gemilang, the national flag, stood for. “Let the true colours of Malaysia be the ones we uphold… Our Jalur…
