Protecting children with disabilities from abuse
MANY of us who work with children with disabilities, are care partners, or persons with disabilities, were heartbroken this week…
Browsing: Opinion
Enhancing Child Protection in Malaysia
THE Department of Social Welfare, under the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, is mandated by the Child Act to…
Tough times don’t last, tough nations do (but discipline is key!)
WE have entered the last quarter of 2022 which, by various data points, will go down in history as Malaysia’s…
Tribute to the economic and media frontliners of the pandemic
AS I stood in Dataran Merdeka with tens of thousands of Malaysians for the National Day parade on August 31,…
Struggling with long Covid: personal perspectives
SOME of us have moved on. We live like we are in a post-pandemic era. Perhaps we are the lucky…
Reflections on health reform: The Health White Paper
IT is good that we are undertaking a reform of health, the ‘Health White Paper’ that is expected to be…
Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill – voting for our children’s future well-being
THE critical Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill is to be tabled in Parliament this week. It is one of the…
Long Covid – Rethinking our Covid-19 future
I OFTEN find that a person’s response to Covid-19, especially in the current climate when we have announced a ‘move…