A letter for Santa from Pulau Pinang

by Marina Emmanuel Dear Santa, I hope this letter finds you well at the North Pole,…

Bring back the human touch to do business-lah

by Marina Emmanuel The pandemic has undeniably transformed various aspects of our daily lives, and one…

SPEAKEASY: We Live and Learn

Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to – Mark Twain by Jayasankarankk You…

Unruly Motorcyclists: A Call for Action

by Ravindra Raman Kutty Malaysia’s roads have become increasingly perilous, not just for motorcyclists but for…

SPEAKEASY: Judging a book by its cover

by JayasankaranKK Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to be When I Grew…

Are you having a jolly good December?

by Trailerman Sam (tapessam@gmail.com) Some 30 years ago, each time when December comes it would put…

A Funny Thing Happened to Me On My Way to Journalism

by JayasankaranKK Education is what you have left over when you subtract what you’ve forgotten from…

The Tongue: A Bridge Between Savouring Life and Shaping Souls

by Sathish Govind The Lord has bestowed upon us five sacred senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch…

A Heartfelt Tribute to Grand Union Supermarket of Bandar Sri Damansara

by Ravindran Raman Kutty On Malaysia Day (September 16) of 1998, a humble but remarkable establishment…

Something you should know about smoking and periodontal gum disease

by Prof Dr Dasan Swaminathan Gum (periodontal) disease is an infection of the gums and if left…

Happiness with a thing called the radio

by Trailerman Sam (tapessam@gmail.com) People walk in and out of our lives for so many reasons.…

SPEAKEASY: From Russia With Love

by Jayasankaran KK Vladimir Putin must be worried. When the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics…

SPEAKEASY: It’s still tomorrow’s fish wrap

by JayasankaranKK The Driver Involved in This Incident Asked That Her Gender Not Be Revealed (What…

Harold Speldewinde, a fighter with spirit of “Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban”

by James Ritchie Harold Speldewinde was one of a kind of Eurasian as a young man.…

Harold Speldewinde, a fighter with spirit of ‘Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban’

by James Ritchie Harold Speldewinde was one of a kind of Eurasian as a young man.…

Empowering Constituents: Should we have a People’s Parliament in Malaysia?

by Sathish Govind Malaysia’s current parliamentary democracy, while embodying numerous strengths, is not without its challenges…

A dog by any other breed

by Mei Kuan I had my first dog when I was five years old. He was…

Continuing the sagaEE of Uncle Sara in Penang during th e war years of the 1940s

The following account by the late Harold V. Speldwinde, P.P.T., P.J.K., on what went on in…

Uncle Sara – Penang’s war-time hero & celebrated newspaper editor

by Trailerman Sam (tapessam@gmail.com) When I mentioned Manicasothy Saravanamuttu, or Uncle Sara to many, in one…

As I seek the spiritual truth…

by Sathish Govind As the clock ticks relentlessly, I find myself contemplating whether the long-cherished aspirations…

Shih’s Lee-son for existence

by S. Jayasankaran Everyone knows that Shih Huang Ti was the Great Emperor who first unified…

The Misleader-in-Chief Awaits

U2’s lawyers work pro-bono – advice for lawyers by S. Jayasankaran Most people will agree that…

Where have all the flowers gone?

by Yong Soo Heong It’s already almost the tail-end of 2024 and some 80 years after…

Balancing media freedom with responsibility

by Lim Chee Wei “Media practitioners must remain uncompromising in upholding the principles of media freedom…