No other economic concern is more important than the question of jobs. We should place the agenda of job creation front and centre. And the Government should be the catalyst to drive this agenda. Through Budget 2021, over a period of two years, the Government…
Covid-19 is a great equaliser, affecting Presidents and prisoners alike. The marginalised in society are often worst hit by the pandemic, as underscored by the outbreak in the migrant workers’ colonies in Singapore and lately, Malaysia’s overcrowded prisons. Despite the public’s strong desire for law…
While the whirlwind chatter surrounding recent Malaysian political developments is overwhelming, I would like to analyse five issues to provide a clearer perspective and examine the possible outcomes of the unfolding political saga. One, will there be a snap election this year? Prime Minister Muhyiddin…
If Pakatan Harapan Plus – PKR, Amanah, DAP, Warisan and Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s faction of Bersatu – can hold together without being cracked, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will likely have to make one of the two following choices: First, to go to the polls…
Listening to the brief economic related parts of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s speech on 10th May made me wonder if the Government has ever known what needs to be done to save and keep the economy going. For instance, Bantuan Prihatin Nasional was a fire…
Economic hardship hits everyone. And hits the lower income groups and the poor most, regardless of race and religion. Many of us have seen photos of long lines of queue in front of pawnshops on the first day after the strict movement control order (MCO)…
Labour Day 2020 is not just another bank holiday, the way we have come to think of 1st May in recent decades. With the Covid-19 pandemic pushing the world into a global economic crisis, there is today a painful awareness that having a job is…
Muhyiddin has only a maximum of 113 or 114 seats. If Pakatan Harapan parties (PKR, DAP, Amanah) and Warisan, as well as Mahathir faction of Bersatu MPs stick together, Muhyiddin has no room to maneuver.
This article was first published in Penang Monthly on Wednesday, 22 April to commemorate World Book Day 2020. On the occasion of World Book Day 2020, when the world is locked inside their homes to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, it is apt…
Those who think that the COVID-19 crisis will end within three weeks or even three months are deluding themselves. Governments and societies that do not understand this bare fact will see their front-liners suffer or perish, and their healthcare systems collapse; and this will be…