MY friend Dave Avran, blogger and social media activist, is an angry man. That makes two of us, and the rest of Malaysia, I imagine.

AT a recent assembly of 1,500 master teachers, the prime minister reiterated the importance of teachers educating students "to develop higher thinking skills" to cater for future needs.

THE latest tittle-tattle to surface, intended to titillate the imagination of the public, has thrown Lim Guan Eng, the stroppy chief minister of Penang, completely off balance.

nearly two decades. The president of the Archery Association of India, V.K. Malhotra, has been in his post for more than three decades.

with our own past -- of, say, 30 years ago -- or with other countries, the US has become more business-friendly. That's why, just last week, the Economist magazine predicted an American economic…