Muzaffar Syah Mallow

What a waste. Everyone was appalled by a recent event in Kuching where a giant bowl of Sarawak laksa was cooked, only to be thrown away after setting a Malaysian record. Such an incident should not be taken lightly as it will create a bad example of no concrete actions or steps been taken to avoid similar events from happening again in the future. It also will show a bad example to our future generations.

For the coming Budget 2017, our government can seriously consider a proposal to raise the tobacco tax and tobacco-based products like cigarette prices drastically if they are really serious about curbing the smoking habit among the public which are now been becoming a plague in our society and starting to influence our youth as well.

The issue concerning child neglect in this country is not new as there as been many similar incidents involving parental or guardian neglect.