It’s a great honour to be invited to speak at the National Resilience College (Maktab Ketahanan Nasional), Puspahanas. The NRC is the part of Malaysia’s professional military education. Slightly more than a dozen of officers at colonel or brigadier-general level are chosen to undergo a…
In the 1970s, Milton Friedman talked about the purpose of a corporation. He argued that a corporation had only one purpose — to make profits for its shareholders. For over three decades, this was the prevailing logic in the global economic system. But after the…
In economics, halal should be beyond food. This is what I gathered from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s thought when he gave a speech at Global Halal Summit. He made three important points. First, “maqasid syariah” (higher purpose) shapes not only the halal sector…
Let me begin with a small but meaningful change instituted by the Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad on batik and building temperature. Yes, wearing batik to work. In the early weeks of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s premiership, he…
A fresh look at the immense potentials of Greater Johor Bahru, also known as the Iskandar region, would serve as the catalyst for Malaysia’s second economic takeoff. Greater Johor Bahru should be positioned as the nation’s second metropolitan after the Klang Valley, and to achieve…
SEPT 2, 2008 — A decade ago today, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was dismissed by the then Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. From the halls of power, as Anwar puts it in one of his earliest prison letters, he descended into “the labyrinths of…
To all Malaysians who created the GE14 miracle, keep fighting. We will be back stronger.