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Covid-19 travels along the fault lines of societies, highlighting cracks and weaknesses long ignored.

Jon Snow: “Prison is an area of great neglect” Inside Time editor asks journalist and fellow patron Jon Snow about why he supports Death Rowletter writing voluntary organisation, Human Writes Human Writes patron Jon Snow has one of the most respected and trusted voices in journalism today. He is best known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News, which he has presented since 1989. (He is the cousin of retired BBC news presenter Peter Snow and uncle to TV historian Dan Snow).  Jon’s career spans all the major news events since the mid nineteen seventies, including the Uganda ...

With highly infectious Covid-19 variants appearing in Malaysia, testing needs to be ramped up so an infected person can be quickly isolated. － FAIHAN GHANI/The Star “Oh it’s only lunch!” That was the retort made when an older relative declined lunch with a friend recently. One week later, that friend was in hospital with Covid-19. I don’t want to be a scaremonger. But I feel duty-bound to sound an alarm now. More than ever before, we are entering dangerous territory with the pandemic in Malaysia. That meet-up with friends, that birthday party, that shopping jaunt for fun – it all ...

A mass vaccination site being set up to deliver the Moderna vaccine to people in a rural area in the state of Virginia. Health workers in the United States have administered more than 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, as at March 12 - around 30% of the world's total of shots in arms so far. －AFP The web of conspiracy stories about Covid-19 vaccines began before any existed: Bill Gates caused this “plandemic” so he could use vaccines to “microchip humanity”; the chips would link with 5G towers; the vaccines would alter your DNA... and so on and so forth. A woman with large, pus-fil...

As recently as 2019, Malaysia built a new coal-fired plant while the rest of the world is turning away from this most polluting of energy sources. — AP As we step into 2021, we face crunch time for climate action. We have less than a decade left to achieve the massive global goal of halving carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 (relative to 2010). If not, we risk global temperatures rising above 2°C – beyond which, scientists warn, climate change may be irreversible and catastrophic. We’ve already had the five warmest years on record in the last decade, as well as record wildfires, droughts...