The road to a broad-based consumption tax in Malaysia has been long and tortuous, stretching back more than a decade before its brief life under Barisan Nasional (BN). In December 2009, the then-government first introduced the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill in Parliament, pledging that a uniform, 6% levy would replace the patchwork of Sales and Service Taxes (SST) then ranging from 5 to 15%.

THERE is something heart-breaking about the Teoh Beng Hock family's relentless pursuit of answers.

Sweet spot of convenience and surety is a blend of cash, cashless commerce.

FROM the outside, the latest Iran–Israel escalation looked like a tightly controlled spectacle—one more episode in the long tradition of geopolitical theatre. Symbolic strikes. Calibrated optics. Narratives exchanged more than missiles. But something disrupted the performance. Someone, somewhere inside Iran, broke the script.

Rising brazen gun violence in the Klang Valley may point to smuggled firearms slipping through the cracks – and a need to fortify our borders.

SOCIETY views housing as a critical requirement for all people.

SPORTS is all about competing. But in our sports associations, it has gone a step further – it's now more like a mad scrap for positions.

JOHN Henry, are you okay?

In response to growing geopolitical tensions and cultural misunderstandings, the Global Civilisation Initiative (GCI) envisions a world where countries collaborate rather than compete and prioritise dialogue over division.