The climate crisis is not a fiction but the same prisoner’s dilemma applies if we continue to see the environment as an externality. The same old cliches would see dealing with climate as a cost and keep debating who should bear the cost. What if…
I would like to thank the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) for the opportunity to speak at the National Consultation on Green Industrialisation in Malaysia with the theme of “Integrated Policy Strategies for a Sustainable Future”. Challenges of…
I thank the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia for this opportunity to speak to your members at this annual general meeting. I also spoke at the same occasion on 27 July 2023, just an hour after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim…
Thank you Malaysia Investment Development Authority (MIDA) and Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) for inviting me to address the National Investment Seminar with the theme “Re-energising Domestic Investment”. To re-energise, we will have to re-imagine. This seminar is very timely as firms and companies grapple…
Semiconductors are the most strategic goods of our time, akin to the new oil. Although one would assume that such a strategic sector would attract a lot more attention, up until recently it was only treated as a private investment, with Malaysia Investment Development Authority…
With the resignation of the Muhyiddin government, the new prime minister and his or her new government must put war against Covid-19 on the top of their list. The survival of this new government hinges on its success (or failure) to bring down the number…
It would be ideal if Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin decided to resign honourably. Or at the very least take a less confrontational approach towards the palace by apologising and offering the heads of the Law Minister and the Attorney-General. Then, Malaysia could have avoided a…
A year ago, I published my book “The Great Reset” in a modest attempt to explain how the once-in-a-century Covid-19 crisis is going to reset our politics, the economy and healthcare system. However, the powers-that-be didn’t bother to learn much from the 18-month Covid crisis…
Each time I look at the raids and other punitive actions such as hefty compound by the government’s enforcement agencies on helpless ordinary people for violation of SOP and other minor offences, I imagine something terrible. The image of Tunisia’s Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on…
MEDIA STATEMENT BY THE ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP MALAYSIA FOR THE REFORM OF PRISONS AND ALL PLACES OF DETENTION 3 JUNE 2021 1. Dato’ Seri Hamzah Bin Zainudin, Minister of Home Affairs, was reported to have said on 29 May 2021, that the Immigration Department,…