One Billion and Rising
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In Malaysia, police statistics in 20101 show that eight reports on domestic violence and 17 on sexual violence are made daily. These shocking numbers show that...
Gurney Drive Must be Improved
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Gurney Drive came into being in 1934. The surrounding real estate was a choice area for the affluent to live; the sea water was clean and the sandy beach, invit...
The Sabah-Sulu Crisis Threatens The Palm Oil Supply Chain
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Suluk “invasion” of eastern SabahThe first of nearly 200 militants entered the massive (nearly 96,000ha) oil palm plantation run by Felda Global V...
Is Malaysia Prepared? The ASEAN Economic Community is at Hand
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For the last two decades, Asean has been working on deepening the economic integration process among its 10 member countries. In 1992, it signed the Asean Free...
Making Space Truly Public
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The conventional way to use a space is to build something like a park. But without some kind of an attraction to draw people to use the park, it would simply be...
Khaw Sim Bee and The Na Ranong Family: A Shared History of Penang and Southern Thailand
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Penangites may recall catching a glimpse of a road sign bearing the name “Jalan Khaw Sim Bee” while passing Perak Road. This may very well be the on...
Can Our Economy Withstand a Political Transition?
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As political scientist Dr Wong Chin Huat said, this uncertainty is a natural response to the situation we are in. “The electoral authoritarian regime has...
Surely Not Another Cold War!
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In the many workshops on US-China relations that I have attended in the last decade, one very popular view about the future of US-China relations is based on th...
Time to Free the Mass Media
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Tears came to my eyes when I was watching a documentary on Martin Luther King, Jr recently. This always happens when I watch programmes or movies portraying the...
Raising Awareness in the Fight Against Cancer
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Members of the cancer support group.Major advances in medical science now mean that cancer is not necessarily a death sentence. What’s more, the num...
An Election by Manifesto
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The 13th General Election holds a very real possibility of change in the federal government. Most important is the fact that never before have policies played s...
Shale Gas – A Game Changer for the Energy Industry
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In November 2012, while the world focused on the US presidential elections, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released the World Energy Outlook 2012 that...