Category Archives: On the Beat

WHILE attending the World Media Summit in Guangzhou, China, last week, I was interviewed by a Chinese media reporter who wanted my views on how the media could improve the perception of Chinese tourists towards South-East Asia. Unsure what he […] Continue Reading

WE seem to be living in an age where nearly everything has become sensitive. This is all outrageous and ludicrous, and downright foolish even. Hot off the press is the controversy of how the state-run TV Sarawak (TVS) had allegedly […] Continue Reading

SACKING a restaurant worker for wearing a crucifix must surely be the first of its kind in Malaysia. Not only is it discriminatory, but this is totally unacceptable, and a strong, unequivocal message must be conveyed to his employer. This […] Continue Reading

KEPALA Batas’ MP could have spared herself and us a lot of grief by simply apologising for her blunder and moving on. Instead, Dr Siti Mastura Muhammad faces an impending suit for claiming that DAP leader Lim Guan Eng is […] Continue Reading

IF the bottom of the barrel had already been scraped by some of our recalcitrant Members of Parliament spanning racist to sexist remarks, then Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Muhammad’s claim has bore a hole right through. The debutant PAS […] Continue Reading

Improvements are apparent, but we must still brace ourselves for a turbulent year ahead. WHEN the ringgit’s value continues to slip against the skyrocketing cost of living, not many Malaysians are interested in listening to complicated economic reasons for the […] Continue Reading

WHILE it has finally dawned on PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang that no political coalition can hope to form the federal government without the support of non-Muslims, he has yet to realise why many of us aren’t consumed […] Continue Reading

GENOCIDE, holocaust or simply an annihilation of the Palestinians in the tiny Gaza Strip. At least one of those descriptions is certainly accurate about what’s happening in the Middle East. It’s called a strip precisely because it’s just a narrow […] Continue Reading

IT’S unprecedented to hear about a top police officer admonishing a room full of the most senior cops from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), and then uploading a video of the shelling online. When these CID officers from around the […] Continue Reading

THE local rice supply shortage has rudely rattled most of us. Naturally, it’s been followed by the traditional finger pointing. The grain has inexplicably vanished from supermarket shelves, while the price of imported rice has spiked. The facts indicate that […] Continue Reading