Getting Ready for those Business Black Swans
Michael Schaper|Serina Rahman
To prepare for future disasters, the Malaysian government should roll out a national response plan to help smaller businesses tide through the storm.
Michael Schaper|Serina Rahman
To prepare for future disasters, the Malaysian government should roll out a national response plan to help smaller businesses tide through the storm.
Joanne Lin
Malaysia has again proposed making Malay a working language of ASEAN, but this proposal is likely to be a non-starter as ASEAN wrestles with more pressing crises.
Serina Rahman
The reopening of the Singapore-Malaysia land border on 1 April 2022 will bring crucial relief to the Malaysian economy, but potential confusion about travel requirements may mar this widely anticipated event.
Francis E. Hutchinson
The appointment of a relatively junior assemblyman to be Johor’s Menteri Besar is curious. But there are deeper undercurrents at work.
Mohd Faizal Musa|Faris Ridzuan
Malaysia’s Islamists and conservatives, led by PAS, are challenging the country’s legal system, calling for the ‘desecularisation’ of Malaysian law in cases involving religious conversions.
Norshahril Saat
It was all sweetness and light at the recent general assembly of the United Malays National Organisation. But there is more than meets the eye.
Serina Rahman
With its victory in the Johor State elections, Barisan Nasional has won two state elections at a trot in four months. The run-up to election day was somewhat subdued, but the stakes are high, as the coalition rues its chances in the coming general elections.
Kevin Zhang|Francis E. Hutchinson
PH’s campaign messaging has consisted of playing its ‘fan favourites’ of good governance and anti-corruption. This is a re-run of the 2018 campaign, which successfully linked Malaysian’s economic woes to the imposition of the Goods and Service Tax (GST), the financial extravagance of former prime minister Najib Razak, and the ill-fated 1MDB.
Norshahril Saat
Like evergreen hits, the feuding parties in Johor’s state elections are rehashing old formulations in the form of multi-racial coalitions with Malay-nationalist entities at the helm.
Lee Hwok-Aun
After years of lobbying, Malaysia finally approved an increase in the national minimum wage to RM1,500. While the government has since delayed its implementation, current economic circumstances require the wage floor to be raised sooner rather than later.