A study for the World Health Organisation has provided evidence of how the gap between the rich and the poor affects individual and collective mental health. It shows how the gap causes psychological and physiological changes that affect the mental health of individuals. The report also argues that the mental health component is important in [...]
“Please help us”: Some of the villagers who are not sure what to do next - Photo by Anil Netto
Villagers in a dozen households next to the St Francis Xavier’s Church face uncertainty after receiving three letters over the last year from lawyers acting on behalf of the Catholic Church in Penang.
The residents had been [...]
Business Times reports that Sime Darby Healthcare, the healthcare arm of Sime Darby, has teamed up with Medilink Network (PVT) Ltd of Bangladesh and Medilink (Beijing) TPA Services Co Ltd to promote medical travel from Bangladesh and China to Malaysia.
The expansion of lucrative, profit-oriented medical tourism will hurt the government-owned general hospitals, which are already [...]
We live in a globalised world that is full of inequalities. Unfortunately, these inequalities are not always visible to most of us.
How to try and understand what’s going on in Terengganu now?
Follow the money trail, auditors and journalists are often told.
So let’s try that here. What is Terengganu’s main asset? Black Gold. Off shore oil.
And the state’s main revenue source is the oil royalty from Petronas, which the Federal Government used to hand over to the [...]
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