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

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

Tales of spooky sites can lead to tourism hotspots

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.

THE Premiership is back! Goodbye sleep, and hello to a zombie-like state every Monday morning.

HE lifted his gaze from his prepared text and spoke off the cuff slowly so that I could write it down verbatim.

I AM sure that by now, everyone is feeling apprehensive about displaying our Jalur Gemilang.

SHARED prosperity does not emerge by chance. It is shaped by deliberate choices, strategic partnerships and the ability to turn capital into capabilities and connectivity into opportunities.

BURSTING at the seams and held together by a mere "bandage strip", it has been a tumultuous and challenging decade for the public healthcare sector that was teetering on the brink of collapse.