FIRSTLY, let’s congratulate the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) candidates who bagged straight As for their subjects, because this has been a difficult examination with so many uncertainties and disruptions.
It’s so easy to pull the trigger on despatching ‘news’, but what if fact meets fiction?
A POPULAR piece of fake news making the rounds is the one involving two top business personalities and a valuer.
Their names need no mentioning to add more credence to the rumour but suffice to say, I know all three personally.
Two of them succumbed to Covid-19 or complications arising from their infection.
If you want to believe these spreaders, who are more infectious than Covid-19, all three were seated together at an annual dinner.
Facts tell us that companies have not held dinner events in the past 12 months.
Tougher measure: It should be mandatory for employers to enforce mass targeted testing so that infectious contacts can be rapidly identified, since cases are increasingly asymptomatic. AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star
IT has been a pretty depressing few weeks for me. I lost a former schoolmate and friend to Covid-19. Two former colleagues from The Star also succumbed to the dreadful virus.
Prominent surveyor and real estate expert Michael Geh became another casualty a week ago from complications arising from Covid-19.
His condition deteriorated 10 days after being admitted into intensive care for testing positive. He had to be intubated after his heart and kidneys weakened.
HAVING lasted 70 years, there’s every chance Israel will continue with its institutionalised violence against Palestinians, yet the United States continues to look the other way.
Why illegitimise a legal trade and legitimise an illegal one by doing what’s obviously counter-productive?
EVERYTHING in Malaysia seems to be politicised. Nothing is missed and as the nation heads towards a possible general election by August, the situation has progressively become worse.
PAS is grumbling about the gambling sector reopening, saying it doesn’t benefit the country.
Its Federal Territories committee is upset that the government is allowing casinos and gambling companies to operate again.
Now, that’s no longer news to us, really, but PAS has ramped up the campaign.
Likewise, for the federal government, increasing sin taxes on liquor and cigarettes have always been populist moves. However, life isn’t that straightforward.