Ganeshwaran Kana

If you are a woman in Malaysia, you are less equal compared to another male citizen. To make it simple, for every RM1 a man earns, you will only earn RM0.58. This is just an example to show why Malaysian women are akin to second-class citizens.

Should the government tax the rich more and distribute the revenue to the poor? Or rather, should the government own all the properties (factors of production) to create an equal (or equally poor) society? The answer is, give tax breaks to the ‘capitalists’ in order to reduce inequality. Yes, this may seem as a case of juxtaposition, yet it is not be necessarily so.

COMMENT A vociferous critic who has to explain his actions, too, during his rule.

Following the recent debate over Universiti Malaya’s non-participation in the famed Times Higher Education Ranking (THES), I as the coordinator of UM Economics Students’ Secretariat (UMESS) would like to offer my opinion to refute the statements by Lim Kit Siang of DAP and student groups such as Mahasiswa Keadilan Malaysia and Progressive University of Malaya.

The conflict between Israel and the State of Palestine is a never-ending case. Numerous ceasefires were agreed, after much struggle only to be reneged on not long after.