For victims of war, peace is more than the absence of fighting or the assessment of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

We've suffered some setbacks, but we've also taken some important steps forward.

Our schools are not safe until we face the crime head-on.

FOR too long, bullying in Malaysia has been treated as an unfortunate rite of passage. It has long existed in school corridors and is laughed off in workplaces or shrugged away as office politics.

THE people power phenomenon sparked off by the Zara Qairina Mahathir tragedy has yet to recede but the temperature has come down a bit and the storm is no longer threatening to blow those in power off their feet.

Tales of spooky sites can lead to tourism hotspots

IT has been a long-held dream —that a former player will some day rise to lead the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM).

WHAT does Merdeka mean to most of us? The end of the British dominion? Street celebrations? Or just a holiday?

There's an urgent need for effective policymaking over political scoring.

PRIME Minister Anwar Ibrahim's warning on the perils of artificial intelligence (AI) spending captures Malaysia's dilemma: spend without discipline and billions will be wasted, hesitate too long and the nation risks being left behind in the next wave of technological sovereignty.

I HAD not planned to give a eulogy at my mother's wake. I was dealing with my grief and the stress of making all the funeral arrangements. And I felt I had already said enough about her in this column over the years, culminating in my previous article titled, "Freed finally from dementia's cruel grip".

That negotiations now unfold directly between Washington and Moscow speaks volumes: the war in Ukraine was never only about Kyiv, but about a proxy confrontation with the West, led by the United States and its military–industrial complex. For Russia, this is not a shift, but a continuation of the position long anchored in the Minsk II Agreement — that the root causes lie not in Donetsk or Luhansk, but in the West's refusal to respect agreements, sovereignty, and civilisational diversity.