Amendments have been proposed to the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 to remove street protesting as a criminal offence. I speak to BFM 89.9 on the significance of this amendment, and what more needs to be done to protect the constitutional right to assemble. The podcast can be accessed here.
This article first appeared at The Malay Mail on 24 Dec 2018. It has been reported that the Ministry of Health will be pushing to gazette all open-air restaurants as no-smoking areas — this is provided under Regulation 22 of the Control Of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004. In turn, that regulation originates from Section 36(2)(d)…