KUALA LUMPUR – Every household in Malaysia is classified into one of three income groups. The T20 are those in the top 20% of household incomes. The M40 represents the middle 40% and the B40 are 40% of households with the lowest income. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic,...
WRITING a book linking the work of your father to your own values and career and what you think the future path your country should take is a rather tall order, especially when your father is one of the nation’s founding fathers, its first deputy prime minister and...
THE crumbling of conditions for the Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) i-Sinar scheme, which allows for unprecedented cash withdrawals from retirement savings, raises uncertainty and poses grave questions as to whether the fund is acting in members’ interests. As all...
ONE thing is very clear: the fight for Melaka’s 28 state seats will be between Pakatan Harapan (PKR 11, DAP eight, and Amanah nine) and Barisan Nasional (Umno 20, MCA seven, and MIC one) while Perikatan Nasional (Bersatu 15, PAS eight, and Gerakan five) is likely to...
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally...
IF there is one thing that the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us, it is the flawed – and illegal – business model of allowing airlines to use payments for advance bookings, and not refunding customers when flights don’t take place. This under-reported and...