THIS must be the scariest evidence that global peace is at its lowest level today.

There must be better monitoring of heavy vehicles carrying hefty loads and travelling at high speeds on our expressways.

LAST Friday marked a decade since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with 227 passengers and 12 crewmembers, ranking it among the world’s greatest aviation mysteries that remain unsolved.

Straight shooting Tiong King Sing is in the midst of a racially tinged controversy for demoting Tourism Malaysia’s DG. But the feisty Bintulu MP, as always, is taking on all detractors.

LAST week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanded that Israel should do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza; but disappointingly, it stopped short of ordering an end to the ongoing offensive.

Malaysia needs a more robust police oversight structure than the existing Independent Police Conduct Commission to restore public trust and confidence.

MERRY Christmas! You can now have your cake, have your greetings written on it and show it off to anyone before you eat it. The controversial directive banning products displaying non-Islamic festive greetings has been withdrawn.

GAZA is “hell on earth” again with the expiry of the week-long truce between Israel and Hamas.

SOME things never change. When I was studying during the 1960s and 70s, truancy was the main disciplinary problem in Malaysian schools.

THE global indignation over the ongoing genocide against Pales­tinians trapped in Gaza is unprecedented.

THE rot in our police force is far worse than imagined but there is a glimmer of hope: It is no longer being swept under the carpet.

THE global price of rice has soared to a 15-year high after India, which accounts for 40% of the world’s rice trade, banned exports in July.