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The Year of the Pandemic has been a brutal one, exacting a heavy toll on lives, personal health, and the economy. We end 2020 with a record high 24-hour increase of 2,525 Covid-19 new cases, pushing up active cases to nearly 24,000.
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.
According to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the proportion of drunk driving in fatal road traffic accidents in Malaysia ranged from a low of 0.48 per cent (33 cases) in 2011 to a high of 3.41 per cent (229 cases) in 2015. This dropped to 0.85 per cent (54 cases) in 2018.…
Read more: Defending Malaysians’ Freedom To Socialise With A Drink Or Two
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.…
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