Federalism going down the toilet
by
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
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Brain drain, once removed
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Petrina Lin Weilynn was born in Penang in 1986 and bundled to Hong Kong when she was just a few months old. Her father has been working at Hong Kong’s Sou...
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Democracy is essentially local
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Both the state governments of Penang and Selangor announced in March this year that they had written separate letters to the Election Commission asking for loca...
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