The Deep Historical Significance of GE14
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Whatever one’s politics may be, one has to admit that the origins of the Federation of Malaysia are complicated and are overlaps of compromises made over...
Limiting the Political Class Should be the Ultimate Goal for Reformists
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Was the opposition to BN-Umno rule, which led to the change in government in 2018, about corruption, ethnic baiting and deteriorating socio-economic conditions,...
Penang Initiatives at Enabling Decentralisation
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Penang Initiatives at Enabling DecentralisationON 30 MAY 2022 at the newly renovated Penang State Assembly building, Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow released the I...
Are We Witnessing the Bankruptcy Proceedings of the Malay Agenda?
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FOR THE FIRST elected government since independence that is not based around the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) to fall within 20 months, one has to...
Working in Silos Becomes the Norm When Merit Systems Are Shunned
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FORMER INTERNATIONAL Trade and Industry minister Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz entertained Malaysia with her comment that the idea that Malaysians like working in silos was not really accurate since silos are places huge enough for significant things to happen.
Are Digital Disruptions Laying the Foundations for Holistic Education in the 21st Century?
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All of us should sense very clearly by now that the education industry is a ripe fruit that is about to fall in the digital storm that has been blowing around the world since the turn of this century.
With Malaysian Politics on A Knife’s Edge, What Challenges Will Muhyiddin Face?
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If Malaysia ’s new government under Muhyiddin Yassin is a solid one, then one could perhaps begin declaring a new era in the country’s politics.Bu...
Covid-19 Exclusives: Time to Dare Imagine the Best Possible New Normal
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THERE WERE FOREWARNINGS that something like the Covid-19 pandemic would hit the world; and yet, it came as a big surprise to most governments. To those that did...
Pandemic or Not, there is No Such Thing as “De-globalisation”
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WHILE THE COVID-19 pandemic is sometimes portrayed as globalisation hitting a wall, it has at the same time raised public consciousness that globalisation as a...
Fairness is the Virtue that Can Reset the World
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THE THINGS THAT split members of a society come in all shapes and sizes; but they all boil down to a play on the human sense of fairness. This sense can be indi...
Redefining the Global “New Normal” After Covid-19
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PUNDITS ARE COMPARING the Covid-19 pandemic to the “Spanish Flu” of 1918 to tease out lessons for how to combat future pandemics.However, the worl...