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A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed
By Dr Rahim Said There are many ways to begin a journey at an international airport.…
Hospital Beds, Court Dates, and the Rakyat’s Cynicism
By Dr Rahim Said Malaysians have developed a peculiar coping mechanism for corruption scandals: gallows humour.…
Tackling Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Journalism
By Dr Rahim Said Last weekend, I had the pleasure of spending a morning with a…
Who Belongs? Homeland, Motherland, Malaysia
By Dr Rahim Said Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor has offered a geography lesson, reminding us that…
Islamica: The Dream That Refused to Go Quiet
By Dr Rahim Said The first time I heard from Sohail Nakhooda, it wasn’t Sohail at…
Malaysia’s Bargain Grand Prix
By Dr Rahim Said Malaysia didn’t claw its way back into Formula One — it tripped…
Do You Remember When Playboy Was Passed Around Like Contraband?
By Dr Rahim Said There was a time when owning a copy of Playboy required the…
When Britain Was Still “Great”
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The Man They Forgot to Credit, and the Grandson Who Never Did
Masjid Zahir, Alor Setar FB By Dr Rahim Said There is a particular kind of Malaysian…
Yoda Best Dad Ever
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Little Things, Big Love — and Why I Keep Coming Back to Bali
Image Credit: Copilot By Dr Rahim Said Forty years. Four decades. That is not a marriage…
May in Bali: The Quiet Season Nobody Told You About
By Dr Rahim Said I am sitting at RUKO — Rumah Kopi — my favourite café in Canggu,…
The Audacity of Jho Low
By Dr Rahim Said Some fugitives hide in caves, some grow beards, and others may also…
A Guardian Angel Comes Calling to Klang in the 1950s
By Dr Rahim Said In post‑Merdeka Malaysia, where dukuns roamed and superstition lingered, one schoolboy’s uncanny…
Authenticity’s Ruse
By Dr Rahim Said There is a peculiar interrogation reserved for writers like us — those…
The 13th Floor Hideaway: Love & Compressors, an Amorous Relationship Leaves Man Hiding Underneath Air-Con Unit
By Dr Rahim Said There are moments in a nation’s moral life when one must pause…
Blocked at Hormuz: When Foreign Policy Needs a Laxative
By Dr Rahim Said There are cartoons that make you chuckle, cartoons that make you think,…
Syawal: The Month Malaysia Turns into a Buffet Conveyor Belt
By Dr Rahim Said Everyone talks about Hari Raya Aidilfitri open houses with the kind of…
From Forty-Five in 1965 to a Small Nation in 2025: The Mathematics of Memory and Mischief
By Dr Rahim Said There are moments in life when numbers stop behaving like numbers. Forty-five,…
Alphabet Soup, Anyone?
When Malaysia’s biggest stories read like a badly redacted exam paper By Dr Rahim Said We grew up…
You’re Fired, Mr President (Says the Man with the Missiles)
A humorous illustration of being fired (Copilot) By Dr Rahim Said If you had been watching…
A Daughter Will Bring Out Love You Never Knew You Had
By Dr Rahim Said Her birth was easy. No 12 hours of labour like her older brother.…
No Father Could Love More
Image Credit: Copilot By Dr Rahim Said You hear stories about fathers driving their children to…