Since the last few years, the kidnapping of Indonesian fishermen in Sabah or the Sulu Sea have increased. Attracted by an easy way to finance its activities, the Abu Sayyaf Group (Abu Sayyaf), a terrorist organisation, has set up a strategy to focus on Indonesian nationals as their main target.

FEB 8 this year would have been the 117th birthday of Malaysia’s Bapa Kemerdekaan (Father of Independence) Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj. It is regrettable that the day went by without any mention of it or any significant event to mark it.

For the longest time, China’s economy has been booming hastily. The act of deep engagement and globalisation had resulted in country’s long years of economic golden age. When China became a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, the country’s GDP was a mere RMB 10 million. .

Attention grabbing headlines on 12 February were “Petros takes over control of Sarawak gas from Petronas” and “Petronas-Petros partnership can help increase S’wak participation in oil and gas value chain”.

The new Paktan Harapan administration was recently defeated when it tried to amend the Federal Constitution to do justice to the Borneo States by undoing the 1976 amendment so as to bring back the original wording used to describe the constituents of the Federation of Malaysia in the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

AS acting minister of education entrusted with a narrow time frame to make impactful reforms, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad needs to prioritise a few key areas which will have the biggest and longest-lasting changes for the benefit of the nation as a whole. The prime minister’s cap he wears will reassure the rakyat that his proposals are constitutionally fair, just and non-discriminatory like his repeated calls to uphold the rule of law.

How Does Writing Improve My Mental Health?.

MORNING! I have just been told by my computer that my hard disk is almost full and that I should do something about it. But what, dear reader, what? I use Dropbox and also the cloud, whatever and wherever that is, but I am old enough to like the sense that it is also on my desktop, and I can see the folder. One step away from printing it out, I know. I need to have faith that these cloudy things keep everything safe and accessible, but people do love putting the frighteners on you!.

2020 duped the “Golden Rat” year will likely turn out to be just a “fool’s gold rat” for W Malaysia. Most economists predict that Malaysia’s GDP will be south of 4pc in 2020. .

When the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English was introduced in 2003, our columnist didn’t think it was a great move. He now has a different take and he also has suggestions on how to do it better.