CORONAVIRUS | Veteran political activist and academic Syed Husin Ali has been keeping well over the last few weeks and now that the movement control order (MCO) appears to be relaxing, he reflects that it has been a necessary experience to endure.

In fact, the 83-year-old former PKR deputy president says that compared to some of the more difficult challenges Malaysians have endured in the past, the MCO has been "nothing much."

"Life has almost been like normal - even prior to MCO, I spent a lot of time at home and didn't go out much. Under MCO, I just didn't have the choice," he told Malaysiakini...