Covid-19 is exposing many things about the world we live in and the people we live with. It has shown to us that at the first sign of danger, many will barter their freedom for a perception of safety. …

Growing up, I loved reading. One of my favourite books is 1984, George Orwell’s masterpiece. In it, the inhabitants of the fictional state of Oceania are constantly under the watchful eye of a totalitarian ruler known as Big Brother. The inhabitants are kept safe from harm in the surveillance state…

Covid-19 has brought to the forefront a little-known medical phenomenon called a cytokine storm, when a person’s body overreacts to a virulent invader, say the novel coronavirus, and the immune response goes into overdrive, inadvertently attacking its own cells. In many cases, this leads to death. I can’t help but…

My Malaysian colleague who lives in China messaged me a few days ago. He is now reconsidering his decision to return to Malaysia at the end of the month — because he’s worried about the spread of Covid-19 in Malaysia. Oh the irony! A guy living in China, worried about…

Agriculture. A word so rarely used these days that it has been relegated to the outer recesses of most Malaysians’ minds. Fair enough. Most of us are so disconnected from our food sources that we don’t actively think about it except when it comes up in the news for one…

The current US-China trade war is shaking up the global economic order. The US’ tariffs on Chinese imports are causing China, long the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, to slowly lose its allure. Countries around the world, especially the US, are looking elsewhere. We need to make them look at Malaysia. Finance…