Can Budget 2016 strengthen Malaysia against external economic headwinds?

by Lim Kim-Hwa

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The path not taken

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The movies all end the same way.The athlete whose journey we’d been following raises her hands in triumph at the finish line, the audience rises in a st...

by Andrea Filmer

Andrea Filmer

A right time for novel fashion, retail and architecture

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Situated along Jalan Kelawai is a breathtaking piece of structural design. Two blocks of 43-storey residential units and a 10-storey office tower rise over a fu...

by Julia Tan

The strange rise and sudden fall of the Chinese stock market

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At the end of 2014, China had a very normal stock market1. Measured by the size of the stock market, China’s market capitalisation of US$4tril, close to 4...

by Herbert Poenisch

Herbert Poenisch

November 2015 Feature

Festivals of significance: A writer’s view of literary festivals

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We hardly heard any mention of them 20 years ago, but today it seems that every country, every town, every little village has one: yes, a Starbucks. But I&rsquo...

by Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng

November 2015 Feature

In Malaysia, every year is a year of festivals

4 min read

Timing is everything, and for local writer Keith Hockton to have released his book, Festivals of Malaysia, this year, well, one might have thought he had inside...

by Louise Goss-Custard

Louise Goss-Custard