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.
Why Malaysia Should Not Have An Anti-Hopping Law
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 14th general election in 2018.…
What Is A Covid-19 Cure Worth?
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.…
Lift The Nationwide Lockdown On May 13
My mother recently told me about the plight of a village in the interiors of Sabah, where a man begged a community organiser to buy his mangoes so that he could buy rice. Apparently, more than 70 families in the Sabahan village were going hungry, as government aid wasn’t reaching them. But they have since managed to get some help from Christian groups.…
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