Letters - Cut costs and keep jobs
I REFER to "6,534 lost jobs" and "Tip of the iceberg" (Front page, March16 and 17). While workforce reductions cannot always be avoided, there are compelling reasons why downsizing-related lay-offs...
View ArticleLetters - The heat wave may pass, but not our act of kindness
THE heat wave is causing damage to flora and fauna. I have read newspaper reports stating that our mango production is disrupted and during the last haze, our banana production was badly affected....
View ArticleLetters - Where are we after a decade?
WORLD Water Day is celebrated every March 22 to mark the importance of water to human civilisation and the nature. It is part of a Decade for Water (2005-2015) activity by the UN. The annual...
View ArticleLetters - Sleep well to enhance life
WORLD Sleep Day was observed on March 18. The observance aims to celebrate the benefits of good and healthy sleep; draw society's attention to the burden of sleep problems and their health, social and...
View ArticleLetters - Better for Penang CM to find solutions
MORE than 20 years ago, when the chief minister of Penang was an aspiring DAP leader under the watchful eyes of his father, his stance in public was invariably that of a squabbling adversary. Headlines...
View ArticleLetters - We need to better handle our food
HOW tragic that Hawa Buyong, one of the victims in the food poisoning case in Siputeh, Batu Gajah, had died after being hospitalised and unconscious for some three weeks. The fatality, among more than...
View ArticleLetters - Food industry players need to understand security concerns
FOOD security refers. In the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2015 Global Food Security Index, Malaysia is placed at 34th out of 109 countries, but was far behind Singapore, ranked second-most food secure...
View ArticleLetters - Apply traffic rules equally to all
MOST urban folk always seem to be in a hurry. Their time seems to be more valuable and precious than that of others. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said that official government cars on...
View ArticleLetters - A serious lapse in security at Langkawi airport
IN the wake of the many terrorism attacks, especially the Brussels airport bombing, I was appalled by what seemed to me like a serious lapse in security at Langkawi airport at 2.15pm last Monday (March...
View ArticleUnderstanding impunity
I READ with incredulity and amusement that some of the Pakatan Harapan politicians at the Save Malaysia rally had appointed themselves representatives of the more than 10,000 ISA detainees to forgive...
View ArticleLetters - Different strokes for different nations
AS a lawyer, my two favourite law provisions in the world are contained in the Charter of the United Nations 1945 which authorises the use of international force only if mandated by the UN Security...
View ArticleLetters - Settle issue of unclaimed EPF monies
I BELIEVE hundreds of millions of ringgit are lying with the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) as unclaimed monies. I had suggested many times to the fund’s officers to print booklets with details of...
View ArticleLetters - Keep fit, enjoy life
MALAYSIANS are fully aware of the benefits of regular exercise but often put off exercising with excuses. What is worrying is that less than 10% of Malaysians give exercise the serious attention it...
View ArticleWill the election panel modernise the electoral system?
MAY I congratulate the new Election Commission chairman, Datuk Seri Mohd Hashim Abdullah, on his promotion to this prestigious and onerous post. Most voters will also laud him for giving his fresh...
View ArticleCourt action not always useful
"THE dilemma of unpaid invoices" (Legally Speaking, April 4) gives the impression, in the writer's own words, that it is "simple and relatively straightforward" to claim money due from recalcitrant...
View ArticleLetters - Gas detectors are essential
THE Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) is concerned over gas explosions at Mid Valley Megamall on Tuesday, where two restaurant kitchens were damaged and eight people injured. Initial findings...
View ArticleImplement PAC’s proposals
THE Public Accounts Committee's (PAC) report on 1MDB answers critical questions about the state investment company. It exposes gross weaknesses in the management of the company and shows how it had...
View ArticleLetters - Should govt be involved in financial investments?
PROHAM (Society for the Promotion of Human Rights) welcomes the 1MDB Report. There is a need for public discussion on the findings of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the...
View ArticleLetters - Please don’t transfer problems
PUBLIC Service Department director-general Tan Sri Mohd Zabidi Zainal has announced that 50 civil servants holding "sensitive posts", will be transferred within a week. Why the haste, and how many more...
View ArticleLetters - Bridge the trust deficit
THE government appears to be trying to have its cake and eating it too on a number of fronts. It insists that the prime minister is capable of fulfilling the dual roles of premier and finance minister,...
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