Year: 2021

The current Covid-19 pandemic has posed a serious challenge to zoo operations because they generally survive on gate collections, rentals, and on support from donors and sponsors. Lockdowns badly affected gate collections and financial aids and these are what many zoos depend on. Closer to home, the annual operational cost of keeping the two giant pandas from China was RM2.25 million in 2015....

In anticipation of the International Day of Older Persons which falls on 1 October, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges the government to prioritise the drafting of a bill to safeguard the rights of the elderly. In September 2019, the Malaysian government had wanted to draft the bill basing on the outcome of a 15-month study conducted by Universiti Malaya and the study should have...

By Fitri Amir Recently, several business groups and certain parties from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) have been actively lobbying the government leadership for Malaysia to ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The CPTPP was signed by 11 countries namely Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru,...

As we celebrate the 64th anniversary of Merdeka – the seminal event that marked our breakaway from colonial rule and the creation of our nation-state – we should reflect on the core element that has shaped our identity and destiny as Malaysia. That key element or primal substance is none other than our diversity. Our nation would not exist if the diverse communities and political entities...