Sim Kwang Yang

One of the highest social virtues for a Chinese is to maintain social harmony and avoid direct confrontation at all costs.

The story that Ong Ka Ting may move from his safe seat in Johore to the overwhelmingly Chinese constituency of Bukit Bintang makes a lot of sense.

Our players have to overcome themselves, and the officialdom that is corrupting everything that is good in Malaysia. I support them with my whole heart.

Fate is the mirror image of man's incompleteness, his limitedness, his deficiency, and his yearning to assuage his cosmic loneliness.

The answers that we seek will then still elude us. It will elude us forever because as long as we live, we are an incomplete unfinished project.

Why am I here? Is there a purpose to my being here? What is the meaning of life? How shall I live? What shall I do with this limited life? Above all, who am I?

new No wonder people at various shopping centres, hawker stalls, and government departments look at me with either disdain or pity. I have no identity.

Naturally, half a century of rapid social and economic development has changed the nature of the marriage and family institutions.

The story of Kak Shima is similar to many of our Malay ladies who still survive barely, at the bottom of the political food chain.

How many young Malay men and women are living a decent life on subsistence wages in the cities and towns, struggling at the bottom of the economic heap at the mercy of the entire capitalistic machinery?

The Gawai Dayak celebrates all that is good in Dayakness, and so in keeping with their festive spirit, we wish them Gayu Guru, Gerai Nyamai .

I do agree for once with this decision to raise the pay of our civil servants. After all, this is the first significant pay rise for them in 15 years.

Time is not on Taib's side. He is in his 70s, and the burden of power over such a huge territory as Sarawak over such a long period of time would have sucked the life force of the best of men.

A mother's devotion to her children is total. It is especially noble, because of all forms of human love, a mother's love is the most selfless of all.

People in the Klang Valley must live in constant fear of the unexpected violence that can descend upon them in the flick of an eyelid.

Tonight, a winner will be declared and the loser will try to accept the defeat with grace and dignity. Everybody will then go back to their normal life. Then what?

All things considered, PKR should consider the Ijok contest as an honourable victory if they lose by a majority of less than 500.

On the Sarawak gangsters, all I know is that without direct involvement from Bukit Aman, the problems will not be resolved in the long term.

The question remains as to whether police corruption is not one of the root causes of gangs "running riots" in Sibu and other towns in Sarawak.

When it comes to the local taxi service, it's not the drivers who need straightening out, it's the system.

KL residents would be used to the ways of their errant taxi drivers by now. Everyone has a horror story to tell about a cab driver or two.

Sadly, there is a form of fatalistic resignation among the people as if no matter who comes to power, the corruption will continue unabated anyway.

These are dizzying times indeed. All of a sudden, the public sphere in full of many different voices from a large array of sources questioning traditional wisdom.

A pertinent question we Malaysians have to ask is this - Is there any business, large and small, that can survive without foreign workers?