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I refer to the TODAY’s Commentary, “'Not in my backyard' — when some groups can protest more loudly, the most vulnerable ones suffer” (Jan 25, 2024). A few good points from the article are worth to be probed further and discussed. In December 2023, the announcement of plans by The National Environment Agency (NEA) to... 

Not everyone is happy with Najib’s pardon outcome. His family is not. Nooryana Najib, his daughter, lamented: “While we appreciate the reduction of sentence from 12 years to six years by Pardons Board, we are disappointed that Datuk Seri Najib was not granted a full pardon and was not immediately released.” For context,... 

Bertha Henson bemoans the declining quality of the Straits Times. But is there any incentive for a person or organisation to innovate and improve when it is handed an iron rice bowl by the government? And isn’t this in effect what is happening when this PAP government has pledged $900 million of taxpayers’s money to keep...