One programme commended for reducing severe poverty is Brazil’s Bolsa Família. The programme goes beyond cash transfers by ...

Yusoff Rawther’s case highlights the draconian provision in the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (DDA), where the accused was denied bail by law. Yusoff Rawther was arrested on 6 September 2024 after police ...

The children’s commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam), expresses deep sadness and concern over the ...

The updated National Children’s Policy was launched in November 2024 and we have been waiting to see the planned deliverables – the promised ‘action plan’ to accompany this policy. The National ...

Kerala is set to become India’s first state to entirely eradicate extreme poverty. One of the key reasons is the state’s ...

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached an unprecedented scale with people there on the brink of famine. However, the ...

Thousands of activists from over 50 countries have gathered in Cairo to participate in the Global March to Gaza, aiming to break Israel’s humanitarian aid blockade on the besieged enclave. Since 2 ...

And so it was in 2018, when an older man by the name of Dr Mahathir Mohamad sounded the clarion call to save Malaysia from ...

We are suffering from a serious mindset problem. Many in Malaysia remain trapped in outmoded ways of thinking, failing to ...

Malaysia's university admission system continues to spark heated debate over fairness, with calls growing for reforms that balance merit, equity and social cohesion.

Profiteering through the use of cheap, poor-quality retread tyres should not be tolerated by the relevant government ...

And by the way, ‘reform’ today (or any day) means digging into the swill of past neglects, deliberate shortcuts taken, and corruption that was allowed to snowball because some political elite and ...