Borneo Tales: Stuck in our own backyards

APRIL 4 — It’s been great hearing from you readers about what you’d like to see in this column. Some of your questions required a lot of thought before I could properly formulate ...

Let me tell you about Sabah

MARCH 28 — Dear reader,I would like to ask your assistance with something. ‘Something’ here being the subject matter of my column.We can safely agree that the divide between the ...

Making wise men out of court jesters

MARCH 21 — My current favourite Twitter hashtag is one started by radio staffer and Twitter personality, Zara Kahan: #LOLDewanRakyat. She uses it to tag her running satirical ...

Young, with a bad back — the new epidemic

MARCH 14 — I assumed, long ago, that bad backs were merely the problems of the middle-aged, old or manual labourers.I’ve been proven wrong. Friends and family in their mid-20s or ...

What minimum wage opponents don’t get

MARCH 7 — Call this a broad, sweeping statement but anyone who opposes minimum wages has probably never had to support a family or live in the Klang Valley with less than RM650 a ...