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Often, many of us think nothing about drinking bottled water.
But here’s why you should avoid it, whenever you can:

Expensive: Litre for litre, it is thousands of times more expensive than tap water.
Hardly hi-tech: Processes such as reverse osmosis aren’t exactly state of the art. Bottled water isn’t much safer than what you could obtain by [...]

What happens when one day you go to the petrol station and find that there is no more petrol? One of the main worries in many countries these days is that the oil is running out.
All the while, political leaders and corporate tycoons will avoid addressing the principal issue that can slow down global warming [...]

As we celebrate 50 years of Independence and 44 years of Malaysia, we would do well to consider some of the cleavages in our society that have given rise to simmering tensions every now and then.
Our ethnic-based political system compartmentalises us into neat categories of Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Iban, etc. And now we have [...]

So I gather some see this by-election as a proxy battle between Najib and Anwar. Others see it as a mini-referendum on the Barisan Nasional’s performance. Then again, there are many who are totally put off by the way the BN announces millions of ringgit in development allocations in the run-up to polling day. They [...]

The Beirut-based journalist Robert Fisk once said, “War is the total failure of the human spirit”.
I know what he is trying to say. War brings out the worst in human nature. Bloodbaths. Torture. Senseless killing. Indiscriminate bombing. Rape.
Then again, I am not sure if it is fair to blame the human spirit as a whole. [...]