CNA

We totally understand home-based learning and digital online learning cannot substitute classroom learning. But having forced ourselves to do this for a whole month, we also learned how to do it better, and that there are certain strengths in online learning that actually, classroom learning does not have.

Education Minister Ong Ye Kung on re-looking how students are taught during the COVID-19 pandemic

What has happened to the pledge in the past to fight and bring down kleptocratic leaders? Oh. That was pledged to obtain the support of voters. Now can forget it.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, whose membership in Bersatu - the party he co-founded - is said to have been nullified

It’s almost like a fairytale that he managed to arrive home for Eid. That to me is very, very special.

Dr Cynthia Goh, senior consultant at National Cancer Centre Singapore, who helped get terminally-ill Bangladeshi worker Rana Sikder home to his family

Suddenly, I had to be an adult. I have to manage money and household chores … buy groceries by myself and choose the vegetables. I appreciate my mother more now.

Malaysian student Koh Ji Sen, 14, on living on his own in Singapore so he will not miss school amid the COVID-19 pandemic