I would like to congratulate Datuk Professor Dr Mohd Faiz Abdullah of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), and Dr. Ram Madhav of the India Foundation for organising this inaugural India-ASEAN Strategic Dialogue. I visited Delhi twice—last year and this year—to attend the…
For those interested, after Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim presented Budget 2026 in his capacity as Finance Minister yesterday, I would recommend that you read the various books and documents that constitute the Budgetary process. I was first elected to the Parliament in 2008.…
I co-chaired a roundtable of ASEAN policymakers on the steel industry with the Secretary-General of the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI) Yeoh Wee Jin and MITI’s Deputy Secretary-General Dato’ Hanafi Sakri. While the steel industry associations in ASEAN engage each other via…
I would like to welcome all delegates from around ASEAN and beyond to Kuala Lumpur to attend the inaugural ASEAN Policymakers Conference on Steel and 2025 ASEAN Iron and Steel Forum. This ASEAN Policymakers Conference on Steel is hosted by the South East Asia Iron…
I am glad to see different entities coming together, building something in common in ASEAN. I hope this initiative will also be geared towards achieving public purposes. ASEAN cannot just depend on purely a Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), which has been the case for the…
I would like to thank Organising Chairman Ng Jan Tzen and the team for making this happen. I would also like to thank the co-organisers FMM, JCI, MICCI, Pelita, as well as the venue provider University of Reading Malaysia, for doing this together. And, of…
BRICS is currently the most important platform expressing the aspirations of the bottom billions of the world’s population in the Global South. BRICS is a shared commitment to resilience, sovereignty and mutual progress. Following the end of the Second World War exactly 80 years ago,…
The recent protests in Indonesia expose a serious socioeconomic root cause: millions of people work in the informal sector, especially as gig workers, and face low wages as well as the lack of opportunity in the formal sector. And a day before a young Gojek…
Ahead of the coming Sabah state election, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has made a promise of returning a 40% revenue return to Sabah if his Bersatu and Perikatan Nasional coalition are back in power. However, Sabahans cast doubt on him, knowing that he did not…
Selamat sejahtera and Salam Malaysia MADANI, Annyeonghaseyo and a very good morning. May I welcome you to Kuala Lumpur for the 33rd Maekyung Global Forum 2025, a truly significant gathering that brings together some of the sharpest minds and most influential leaders from both Malaysia…