Anticipating positive change in Peaceful Assembly Act
Although we welcome this announcement by the prime minister, we are still waiting to see how suitable the amendments are and how fast they will be implemented.
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How will new Syria affect Malaysia?
We need to see how the transition of power in Syria is going to affect religious extremism in our country, and then there is the relationship with Russia and the rest of the world.
What can we learn from South Korea’s 6-hour martial law?
What is true is that in any democratic government, a healthy and integral check and balance system needs to exist.
How social environment impacts journalism practices
Aside from policies and practices, the social environment journalists work in can affect and influence our press freedom standing as well.
At times, differing views allow us space to clarify our stand better
The process of talking can take a long time. It takes some effort to explain things and, it takes even more effort to try to understand things that we don’t understand.
Malaysia’s press freedom ranking drops, now what?
Despite the fact that Malaysia’s press freedom index has dropped, I still think there is hope. Don’t give excuses or defensive deflection. Just tell us what the government is going to do to improve.
Let’s learn to chill, tickle and laugh more
When we are able to laugh at ourselves, we realise we are not perfect. It teaches us humility, open mindedness and the realisation that we can do better.
Let’s drown out hate speech with more love speech
Maybe what is needed is to flood the media and social media with more positive narratives that promote multiculturalism and religious pluralism. We need to counter the negative narratives and drown them out.
Is it hard to practise tolerance, understanding, forgiveness?
There are many stories of the Prophet Muhammad forgiving people who disrespected him and Islam intentionally, what more towards people who do so unintentionally.
We must steer conversations towards peace and harmony
I have dozens of socks in my drawer so that I never run out. The socks I have don’t have to be expensive, just as long as they are elastic and clean.
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