South China Sea: What’s at stake?
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With the discovery of oil in Sarawak in 1910, the foundation of Malaysia’s oil and gas industry was laid and changed its economy forever. Mainly located i...
Highlights of George Town Festival 2014
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Wrecking Crew Orchestra EL Squad.Shanghai Starlight Acrobatic Troupe.Bunditpatanasilpa Institute.Racehorse Company....
Eight bountiful acres
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The way to 8 Acres was very fruitful, pun intended. In the car with friends and colleagues, we made a brief stop along the trunk road for some nangka. Each frui...
Anuar Rashid is back... again... for now
6 min read
Malaysian Art’s prodigal son, Anuar Rashid, is back. Again, big time and with a vengeance, a new passion and the same kick-ass attitude. Behold his magnum...
Stateless in Sabah
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Any tourist walking along Kota Kinabalu’s famed waterfront will, sooner or later, encounter a tout waving a booklet for island tours and boat trips. He wi...
Taking education outside the school
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According to the World Bank, in 2010, 14% of our GDP per capita consisted of public spending on primary education. Singapore on the other hand recorded 11.2%...
Malaysia’s special role in the South China Sea
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Soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army 1st Amphibious Mechanised Infantry Division.In May this year, Chinese oil company China National Offshore...
URGENTLY NEEDED: Reform of Malaysia’s regime police
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Nine years have passed since the release of the landmark 2005 Dzaiddin Royal Commission Report and its 125 recommendations for police reforms, including the f...
Making Penang a slave-free state
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Penang is not immune to human trafficking. Women, men and children from Penang have been and are being trafficked, and many more are hugely vulnerable to traffi...
No nuclear power please, we are Malaysians
8 min read
At a recent event organised by the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI), a speech by Datuk Mah Siew Keong, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Depa...
Garbage City of Cairo
6 min read
“Garbage City” in the Mokattam hills outside Cairo is not on the tourist map. A cramped slum of rubbish-strewn streets and low rise buildings, it is...
An afternoon at the Malaysian Tamil barbershop
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Schedule interviews with Malaysian MPs?No, we obviously can't bother them on a Sunday.Plan for the English camp we're organising for secondary school students...