With the continuous surge of affected individuals, the world is at the verge of a global emergency as it wages battle against the large scale pandemic that took it by storm. COVID-19 will be a name forever remembered by people living in this decade, for sure. As the numbers in Malaysia hiked up to 428 yesterday (it’s 553 today), many people, particularly in Klang Valley went into panic buying mode, in anticipation of heightened control measures put into place to contain the virus; the trending word of the day – “lockdown”. While understandable that people are worried and scared (I’m...

Today, I want to go back to writing on another important cause in my life: to propagate the importance of having takaful protection. This time around, I want to zoom in specifically to the channel options available for everyone to take one up. These days, the excuse of not having access doesn’t hold water anymore, as more and more options are made available to cater to the different type of audiences. If there is any big gap in this topic of accessibility, it would really be for the low income (B40) segment, which by design has its own set of challenges. ...

COVID-19 has definitely shook the world. No country really has control over the deadly virus, and the distress level just keeps going up exponentially across the different levels of society globally. It just gets scarier by the day. The response from the people varies depending on where they are and the local criticality of the situation. Europe is basically on the verge of shutting down with few countries already on a lockdown. The Asian economic giants up north such as South Korea and Japan continues to combat it as best as they can. Travel bans are announced everywhere with entries...

Yesterday, the country received news that there were positive cases of COVID-19 recorded from attendees of a tabligh gathering held between 28 February to 1 March 2020. It was estimated around 10,000 people attended (12,000 according to the vice president of the mosque in a news article) with participants from various countries – approximately from 25 countries.  The case started receiving headlines the moment Brunei recorded its first case, which was linked to the event. The cases in the country went up to 10 in just 1 day after they found the first case.Today, Singapore announced that it will temporarily close...