I was asked in Parliament on the costs of 1MDB to the nation. In his supplementary question, Sdr Chong Chieng Jen, MP for Stampin, asked could the cost be higher for Malaysia if there was no change of government in 2018. My reply: First, the…
Had it not been for the electoral swing in Johor in 2018, Datuk Seri Najib Razak might still be the Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2026. The state was Barisan Nasional’s bastion. In the last two rounds of constituency redelineations, in 1993 and 2003 respectively,…
I would like to thank the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia for inviting me to join you at the National Economic Forum 2026 to discuss your conference theme “A World in Transition: Securing Malaysia’s Economic Future in an Era of Disruption”. The…
Although the Johor state assembly was only due for dissolution by 20 April 2027, the election was called about 10 months earlier when Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi dissolved it on 1 June. At the time of the dissolution, Barisan Nasional leaders were highly optimistic.…
The May 13 incident in 1969 ended the Merdeka era administration, a Malay-led multiethnic elite collaboration consisting of UMNO, MCA and MIC with some democratic features. An emergency was imposed and later lifted but everything was no longer the same after the tragedy. Ethnic anxiety…
Why does Barisan Nasional want to go solo? Because UMNO wants to use this state election to restore itself as the “dominant party” like its former supreme position in the pre-2018 one-party state. Johor BN has decided not to hold the state election concurrently with…
MCA President Wee Ka Siong in his response to me once again avoided telling us which coalition his party would support in the coming general election. By doing so, what he actually meant was: let’s wait until after the election. He doesn’t want to tell…
MCA President Wee Ka Siong recently said in a media interview that he did not sign a statutory declaration to support PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang as Prime Minister. This is sophistry, his cunning deception. The SD that Wee signed was to support Muhyiddin Yassin,…
The Social Exchange is a great initiative by the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC). It is not just an initiative, but a statement that we are not just thinking about the capital market just for money, but capital market for a purpose. We live in a…
𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 Pakatan Harapan held its convention in Johor Bahru on May 17 to set the tone and direction for the coming general election. Here, we revisit the political journey we have gone through together that allowed us to arrive at this juncture.…