COMMENT Christmas is here.

What is its implication beyond what the angels declared more than 2,000 years ago: “A Saviour is born to you"?

If we peel away the religious tag and remove inherent prejudices, we may find Jesus a friend and not a foe.

He is the same "yesterday, today and tomorrow", and his words are still relevant in a world lost in materialism, injustice, violence and self-indulgence.

The World Bank recently declared, “In the developing world, corruption is public enemy number one."  

I can hear Malaysians resound with shouts of "we already know!"