We post stuff on social media about corruption among our politicians and government officers but what do we do besides that to have a positive impact in fighting the menace?
Author: Purwaiz Alam
Purwaiz Alam is a journalist with over 35 years of experience, mostly doing editing. He has worked with most of the English medium newspapers in Malaysia and a couple of news portals.
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