AS we commemorate our 58th Merdeka anniversary on Aug 31, let’s remind ourselves, our children and all who love Malaysia as our own, to truly know and honour our nation’s three great symbols.

But apart from the flag and anthem, do we even know what these symbols are? OVER dinner, I confessed I had yet to hang out the flag at my house for Merdeka this year. Angry young woman at the ...

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Emperor Naruhito stood alongside his wife, Empress Masako, as he spoke at the Imperial Palace Japan's Emperor Naruhito has pledged to fulfil his role as a "symbol of the state and unity", in his ...