Yes, that was Anwar’s December promise. Most ministers literally did get cracking. Disappointingly for Anwar and the country, a minister or two didn’t. It was in full display in Parliament on Monday during the question-and-answer session.

The sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now out with an ominous message: the world will certainly miss the target of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels that it set itself in 2015 in Paris.

Breaking up monopolies is easy, but righting all the wrongs of the monopolies will be a challenge. Consider a sole provider problem. Puspakom, a vehicle inspection centre and the sole company appointed by the government in 1994 to conduct mandatory inspections of commercial and private vehicles, has received a bank of complaints.

The death penalty is a necessary evil-cum-tool to combat heinous crimes, such as murder and drug trafficking.

It is embarrassing that Lim Hui Ying could not answer a parliamentary question.

The position required only a relevant diploma and a year of working experience (however, fresh graduates were welcomed), with a monthly salary of around S$3,000 (RM9,960).

Her popularity and profits appeared to get a boost with the news of Trump’s indictment on Thursday in a case involving a US$130,000 hush payment she received in the waning days of his 2016 election campaign.

The numbers of babies born with syphilis in Canada are rising at a far faster rate than recorded in the United States or Europe, an increase public health experts said is driven by increased methamphetamine use and lack of access to the public health system for Indigenous people.

Residents of Paris are set to vote tomorrow whether to banish electric scooters for rent from the streets of the French capital, in what would be a world-first for a major city.