Eric Loo

COMMENT | Not-so-merry a Christmas nor a happy new year

COMMENT | Not-so-merry a Christmas nor a happy new year

However, the pandemic has shown that cooperative collectivism trumps selfish individualism.

COMMENT | Buying into the fallacy of racial hierarchy

COMMENT | Buying into the fallacy of racial hierarchy

The media have consistently framed Asians as outliers since the first wave of “boat people” arrived in Darwin in 1976 after the Vietnam War.
COMMENT | What type of retiree are you?

COMMENT | What type of retiree are you?

Comfort, soul searching, regret - retirees face different emotions.

COMMENT | Disconnecting drinking from driving

COMMENT | Disconnecting drinking from driving

The authorities should mandate better road-user education for learner drivers and implement higher-visibility police enforcement.
COMMENT | Malaysian diaspora rewriting the media narrative

COMMENT | Malaysian diaspora rewriting the media narrative

COMMENT | Malaysians, no matter what citizenship they take up, will have strong affiliation to their home country.

COMMENT | Time to replace the old guard

COMMENT | Time to replace the old guard

COMMENT | The new generation of millennial voters is getting tired of the same old racial reruns.

COMMENT | Coping with the Covid crush

COMMENT | Coping with the Covid crush

This pandemic has disrupted human activities, but the economic pause has led to a cleaner environment.

COMMENT| Good governments engage with journalists, not persecute them

COMMENT| Good governments engage with journalists, not persecute them

Foreign journalists on tight deadlines can only be as fair and accurate as their contextualising of stories to realities on the ground.

COMMENT | PN should hold regular press briefings to cement ‘legitimacy’

COMMENT | PN should hold regular press briefings to cement ‘legitimacy’

COMMENT | Journalists have a right to report and the people have a right to know how the state is governed.

COMMENT | Mahathir a reformed 'enemy of the press'?

COMMENT | Mahathir a reformed 'enemy of the press'?

COMMENT | Journalists were deemed to be natural adversaries of the state, hence stringent laws must be used to rein them in.

COMMENT | Fighting racism starts at home

COMMENT | Fighting racism starts at home

COMMENT | Racism resides in our thinking. It shapes our attitudes, which makes it hard, but not impossible, to transcend.

COMMENT | #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd and more

COMMENT | #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd and more

George Floyd's senseless death should prompt us to examine our own ethnocultural disposition and private racist stereotypes of the 'other'.

COMMENT | Good journalism is bad news for backdoor gov’t

COMMENT | Good journalism is bad news for backdoor gov’t

PN will rejoice if public interest media fade from the scene. Then, it will be back to square one…
COMMENT | Calling out the racists for what they are

COMMENT | Calling out the racists for what they are

We must never stay silent when it comes to racist assumptions and racialised language at home, at work and in public places.

COMMENT | Break misinformation chain to stave off state control of news portals

COMMENT | Break misinformation chain to stave off state control of news portals

The line separating professional journalism from political spin is getting blurrier as hyper-critical contents are labelled 'fake news'.

COMMENT | What is your carbon footprint?

COMMENT | What is your carbon footprint?

'Our personal actions during this pandemic will impact on another’s health safety, our carbon footprint and ultimately, the environment we live in.'

Does Covid-19 bring out the worst in us?

Does Covid-19 bring out the worst in us?

COMMENT | It opens up a pathway to work with the federal and local authorities to stem the viral outbreak.

Rational response to human crises

Rational response to human crises

COMMENT | While the media in the West concentrates on how Covid-19 is ravaging the US, UK and Europe, two-thirds of the world population are languishing in poverty, starvation and disease.

Has hope turned into despair?

Has hope turned into despair?

COMMENT | Grey skies ahead as the new PM forms a new gov't under a new name, although its composition will not be new at all.

PPSMI missing the forest for the trees

PPSMI missing the forest for the trees

COMMENT | Lack of inspirational teachers who are bilingually competent is more of the critical issue with the programme.

Racism gone viral – and there’s no vaccine

Racism gone viral – and there’s no vaccine

COMMENT | Are we hardwired to associate certain crises and public behaviour with particular ethnicities?

If only UiTM was opened to students of all races

If only UiTM was opened to students of all races

COMMENT | UiTM must be an institution where students of all races and educators are proud to be associated with.

Whoever's the next PM, it'll be business as usual

Whoever's the next PM, it'll be business as usual

COMMENT | But can Anwar sacrifice self-interest for the greater good of the people, regardless of race, religion?

Drawing political lessons from Christmas

Drawing political lessons from Christmas

COMMENT | Politicians should listen to the ‘better angels of their nature’ to serve the rakyat, instead of themselves and their cronies.