AL-SULTAN Abdullah of Pahang became the Agong, or King, at a time of profound change in the nation’s political landscape.

THE recently renewed call for a fixed parliament term has drawn a fierce debate among political players and observers. Would it be detrimental to democracy as its detractors have said? Would it even benefit the people?

WHILE the world has moved on from 2023 to 2024, Malaysian ­politics seems stuck in 2020 with the same storyline of toppling the existing government, with the ­latest in the series being the Dubai Move.

On Dec 29 2023, South Africa filed a case against Israel with the International Justice Court, citing a breach of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Convention).

IN THE Global War on Terror (GWOT), which the US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld later changed to the Global Prevention of Violent Extremism (GPVE), the former wrestler cum undergraduate scholar at Princeton University had bemoaned about the lack of success in 'terminating' the rank and file of Al Qaeda and the extremist groups in Iraq.

ALL but one Congressman in the United States (US) is deemed to have signed on to the pledge of the American Israel Public Affairs Commission (AIPAC).

WE are faced with the greatest trial of humanity, to live peacefully and sustainably on a crowded and interconnected planet. We are currently failing that trial.

Despite all dire predictions and political manoeuvring, the PM will soon mark his first year in power.

In a recent forum organized by Harmony Malaysia and the IAIS International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, panelists and speakers went all out to promote the idea of changing education, changing political laws, changing mindset towards cosmopolitanism and reinforcing the Rukunegara.

LATELY, there has been a credible focus by the current Malaysian administration to look carefully into the issue of the brain drain.

ON Oct 9, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip.

UNDEREMPLOYMENT is a growing problem, especially among graduates, amidst the emergence of flexible gig work and the lack of job opportunities in the labour market.