One year ago today, I had just come back from New York. Pre-pandemic life seems like a distant memory now – eating a meal in a bustling restaurant, walking the streets with a bare face, dancing in a crowded night club.

Civil liberties are tricky, especially in Malaysia that tends to have excessive State intervention in social and business spheres, regardless of the government of the day. Nowhere is this tested more than in the grey issue of consuming alcohol that has been intertwined with the emotive problem of drunk driving, despite drunk driving only contributing less than 4 per cent of fatal road traffic accidents annually between 2010 and 2018.

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Calls for an anti-hopping law have grown stronger since the Sheraton Move that saw the downfall of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government less than two years after the historic 14^th general election in 2018.…

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Gilead Sciences recently excluded Malaysia, as well as Singapore and Brunei, from obtaining generic versions of remdesivir -- the frontrunner potential treatment for Covid-19 – in recent deals the US pharmaceutical giant struck with five generic companies in India and Pakistan.…

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