The Star Says

THE High Court ruling last Thursday that the Sepang Municipal Council has no power to remove Automated Enforcement System (AES) cameras as they were located on federal roads has opened up a litany of legal issues that will slowly but surely work their way up to the highest court in the land.

WITH the recent spate of incidents involving animal abuse, it is timely that a new law has been drafted to add more bite to the fight against such inhumane behaviour.

WE are always touched by stories about how organs are successfully transplanted from one body to another. More so when the circumstances are dramatic and heart-wrenching, restoring our faith in humanity.

IT was breaking news of global proportions. When Pope Bene­dict XVI announced his resignation on Monday, citing age and declining health as reasons, he made a decision that though legally permissible, has never been done since Gregory XII left office under different circumstances almost six centuries ago.

THE Public Works Department is to be commended for coming up with an early warning system that can send out alerts at least two hours before a landslide occurs.

THE revelation that an average of 15 people went missing each day in Malaysia last year, the majority of them teenagers, may come as a shock to many.

SHOCKING. The wall that shouldnt have been, says our headline. And from what has been revealed so far by the mayor of Kuala Lumpur, and also through the expert opinion of a geologist and a land development specialist, we can surmise that the collapse of the retaining wall at Bukit Setiawangsa was an accident waiting to happen.

IT is now past “doomsday” and the world is still very much as it was: promising, troubling, imperfect, bountiful, vulnerable and nonetheless intact.

IT is known as the street that never sleeps. And for all the wrong reasons.

SOME people routinely unload their rubbish into rivers. Even more people unthinkingly dump rubbish into drains, which then empty into rivers.

WHEN will we ever learn? More importantly, why isnt anything done? Over the past several months, this newspaper has been raising the alarm on the uncontrolled land clearing in Cameron Highlands. Our latest reports the last two days show how frighteningly massive the problem is.

THE long-awaited implementation date for workers in the private sector to retire at 60 instead of 55 has been announced.