Improving education

There are still many problems in our education system yet the reforms needed are moving at a glacial pace, compared with the world our children will grow up in. A RECENT headline claimed that Malaysia’s education system is fast becoming the world’s best. I really had to blink several times because it seemed...

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It’s war – mostly online

We should be grateful that the war of words doesn’t actually spill blood because otherwise the cyber sphere would be strewn with dead bodies by now. Still, there must be a lot of wounded. IN 1982, two largish nations went to war over a tiny group of islands. One of them, Argentina, decided to assert a long-standing...

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