Opinions

To return home, or to stay put? Covid-19 forced many students to face this major dilemma. In this opinion piece to Astro Awani, Haris Danial and Hakim Manan, addresses this issue.

The Class of 2020 particularly is at risk of graduating into a recession. A brewing economic storm will tightened hiring, raising the risk of unemployment fresh out of graduation.

Malaysia charted the biggest rise in the RSF 2020 Freedom of Press Index, leaping 22 spots to 101 on the index. But there are red flags showing we risk falling back to old patterns.

Volunteerism plays a large role in fostering unity amongst the Malaysian youth. Alex Wee, a volunteer with the Charisma Movement, shares why we can find unity through volunteerism.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all in some way. While some of us are devastated about not being able to go out to makan or lepak, others are not as fortunate. The global pandemic has left the socially disadvantaged bearing the brunt of the pandemic, aggravating the disparities in living standards.

These are testing times indeed, with the COVID-19 outbreak causing Malaysia to enforce a Movement Control Order (MCO) to restrict contact between members of society. While we must trust our government to do its job in flattening the infection curve, we must also trust our own community members to act responsibly.

With Malaysia’s laggard track record in tackling mental health amongst the youth, how can religion help? In his opinion piece for CEKU, Adenan shares his thoughts with us.

The UK’s previous strategy of “herd immunity” is one that has come under fire not only from WHO, but from leading scientists across Britain’s top universities as dangerous and risky. But what was the rationale for the government’s strategy and why have they backpedalled from it?

With the current outrage surrounding COVID-19 worldwide, media attention has shifted away from other concerning problems in the heart of our nation, Kuala Lumpur. How does our nation plan to mitigate the rising number of homeless people and what can we do to ensure that they get the mental health attention that they need?

The diseases caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 is named as COVID-19. It is a large family of viruses that have caused illness from the common cold to more severe ones such as MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. SARS-CoV-2, is a new strand of zoonotic virus (able to jump from animal to human) and is believed to originate from the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China. The fatality of this virus highly depends on the condition of the patient itself.