At a refugee camp in Darfur, Sudan. Many of the inhabitants have lived here for close to 10 years after fleeing conflict in their villages.This century, t...
Higher education in Malaysia has evolved together with the economy. In the 1980s large-scale industrialisation saw agriculture and mining giving way to manufact...
We were not quite sure what to expect. Initially, the expedition was meant to be a study trip to Muslim-majority countries to learn about the diverse ways in wh...
By virtue of Articles 5 to 13 of the Federal Constitution, every Malaysian citizen is accorded the inalienable right to, inter alia, personal liberty, due proce...
Once again, our nation is beguiled by the spectre of hudud, a term loosely used to reference the syariah penal code. Every once in a while, hudud emerges like a...
I engaged in polite conversation, as one often does in such situations, with the person seated next to me during a recent regional conference in KL.“So...
It is an unfortunate fact of Malaysian politics that discourse revolving around complex political issues is often reduced to banal statements that are more emot...
“MPs in Malaysia are often busy performing KBSM duties.”I am fond of repeating this phrase whenever asked to speak on the roles and responsibiliti...
The 14th general election looks set to be a litmus test for many political stakeholders in Malaysia, not least of all the ruling BN coalition. Now ignominiously...
Recently, a group of youth activists from the International Islamic University were in Penang to organise a creative initiative to raise awareness on child sexu...
Mahathir (seated, third from left) with (from left) Parti Amanah Negara deputy president Salahuddin Ayub, PKR vice-president Shamsul Iskandar, PAS MP Mahfuz O...
They say a picture paints a thousand words. This may be true, but I also think that a thousand words paint a better picture. In order to put my claim to test, I...