Vasanthi Ramachandran
20 POSTS
When candidates come knocking
“WHERE were you when we needed you the most?” is the question we will ask any candidate who comes knocking at our doors to entice us with airbrushed narratives ...
Moving from sick to sick-free society
THE paradigm shift from a sick to a sick-free society requires all stakeholders to be persuasive advocates to elevate Malaysia’s status to a healthy nation. For...
No turning back from anti-smoking Bill
“NOTHING so needs reforming as other people’s habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibit...
The vaping epidemic of children is stoppable
TWO wrongs cannot make a right. Our generation created a society of smoking and vaping, and then spent billions of ringgit on tobacco-related diseases....
‘Calling Lee Lam Thye’ in times of need
A MAN struggles to hold up his tumbling house, which hangs over a cliff after a flood-induced erosion, while he screams, “Quick, call Lee...
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Malaysia will not remain neutral on fundamental rights: PM
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says Malaysia will not remain neutral on fundamental rights and national interests, while maintaining an independent foreign policy.
