Time To Be Human
12 min read
At a refugee camp in Darfur, Sudan. Many of the inhabitants have lived here for close to 10 years after fleeing conflict in their villages.This century, t...
Our Young Need New Ways of Financing Their Higher Education
9 min read
Higher education in Malaysia has evolved together with the economy. In the 1980s large-scale industrialisation saw agriculture and mining giving way to manufact...
Lessons on Democracy from the Middle East
8 min read
We were not quite sure what to expect. Initially, the expedition was meant to be a study trip to Muslim-majority countries to learn about the diverse ways in wh...
Fixing the Constitutional Lacuna May Be Easier Than We Think
7 min read
By virtue of Articles 5 to 13 of the Federal Constitution, every Malaysian citizen is accorded the inalienable right to, inter alia, personal liberty, due proce...
Hudud Threatens the Future of Malaysia
8 min read
Once again, our nation is beguiled by the spectre of hudud, a term loosely used to reference the syariah penal code. Every once in a while, hudud emerges like a...
Malaysia’s Parliament and Courts– No Longer Supreme
7 min read
I engaged in polite conversation, as one often does in such situations, with the person seated next to me during a recent regional conference in KL.“So...
Meaningless to Have Syariah Laws without Maqasid Syariah
7 min read
It is an unfortunate fact of Malaysian politics that discourse revolving around complex political issues is often reduced to banal statements that are more emot...
The Art of Neutering the Malaysian Parliament
7 min read
“MPs in Malaysia are often busy performing KBSM duties.”I am fond of repeating this phrase whenever asked to speak on the roles and responsibiliti...
Stop BN’s Electoral Robbery with Bersih 5
8 min read
The 14th general election looks set to be a litmus test for many political stakeholders in Malaysia, not least of all the ruling BN coalition. Now ignominiously...
Politics is in the Blood of the Young
7 min read
“Give me 1,000 men and I will move a mountain. Give me 10 young men and I will shake the world.” (Sukarno)Where political involvement is c...
The Story of Malaysia through its Constitution
23 min read
Malaysia constitution, Malaysia government, Penang government, George Town Penang, Tun Dr Mahathir
Bangsa Malaysia – A Dream Worth Fighting For
4 min read
After over 20 rounds of Transformasi Nasional 2050 (TN50) dialogues held at various locations throughout the country, Khairy Jamaluddin, the Minister of Youth a...