White flags: The most courageous act in the pandemic
Under the scorching afternoon sun, Maznan Omar was about to experience the longest forty-five minutes of his life. “I have been with the police for about 35 years and this is the first time I…
Under the scorching afternoon sun, Maznan Omar was about to experience the longest forty-five minutes of his life. “I have been with the police for about 35 years and this is the first time I…
Annuar Musa is always on time. He was among the earliest batch of politicians who arrived at Sheraton Hotel on 23 February 2020, which kickstarted the country’s most viciouscoup. That evening, he arrived so early…
One argument between the late Tun Dr Ismail and his wife, Neno, remained unresolved until his dying day: Is there a dead body underneath their garden? Ismail told her there was none, but Neno refused…
Muhyiddin is not stupid. Anyone who could orchestrate the unprecedented, once-in-a-lifetime, ethically impossible task of the Sheraton Move could not be deemed stupid. Although to the public, the chief architects of the Sheraton Move are called traitors, within government, they…
Other than being the longest-reigning ruler in the world, Emperor Qianlong’s biggest achievement was marrying Lady Fuca as his wife. She was unlike any empress in Chinese history: Frugal (wearing flowers on her head instead of expensive jewellery), humble (caring and fair…
Bill and Melinda Gates are no strangers to audacious goals. Their foundation’s website states that their mission was “fighting poverty, diseases, and inequity around the world”, arguably the three biggest problems of our time. With ample funding,…
It took Najib a long time to accept his defeat on 9 May 2018. On Malaysia’s longest night, the Election Commission’s snail-paced announcements were slow and painful, and UMNO’s fallen soldiers were invisible in the…
The UMNO General Assembly is an arena of superimposed masculinity. It is common to have delegates using the platform to shout out their beliefs, on the premise of representing the voices of the party grassroots,…
In 1971, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a person with three names. For the first 20 years of his life, the recipient was known as Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, a son to a cashier…
How much money is enough to make you lie? Not much. Famous behavioural scientist, Dan Ariely, specialises in the study of worst human behaviours. He believes that given a chance, most humans would act worse than what you…