Month February 2013

“Malaysia’s chance for some soul-searching”: a review of Malaysian Maverick by Liew Chin Tong

Originally published in the March 2010 issue of Penang Economic Monthly. Sixty odd years after Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad first deliberated on politics as a student and almost three decades after he assumed the office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia in July 1981, the…

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The dominos in Johor

Johor is the last bastion of Barisan Nasional but the coming general election may prove that the fortress may turn out to be merely a sand castle. If Pakatan Rakyat gets the support of 35 percent Malay, 80 percent Chinese and 50 percent Indian voters…

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