Category National

May I thank Datuk Prof Dr Mohd Faiz Abdullah, Chairman of ISIS Malaysia, for inviting me to this conference with the theme “Realising an AI nation”. The recent global debates about artificial intelligence are couched in apocalyptic terms – such as 10%, 25%, or 50%…

Hari ini saya berdiri di sini dengan perasaan bercampur, iaitu sedih atas pemergian tokoh negara Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali semalam, tetapi tetap bangga kerana kita berada di dalam dewan Auditorium ini yang mengambil sempena nama Allahyarhamah.  Ketokohan Tun Dr Siti Hasmah tiada tandingannya,…

I am delighted to join the veteran leaders of Malaysia’s capital market to launch “Echoes of the Boardroom: Untold Stories of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board”, which chronicles the three-decades of Financial Reporting Foundation and Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB).  There is no better time…

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…

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…

I would like to give this presentation a title. I call this “The 2020s: Shaping the New Global Order From Asia”. We are now more than halfway past the current decade and this decade has shown to us that it is different from the preceding…

May I thank Perbadanan Insurans Deposit Malaysia (PIDM), together with the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) and the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee (APRC) for inviting me to speak at this important gathering of deposit insurers, resolution authorities and regulators from across the Asia‑Pacific region.  Deposit…

In his book “As Empires Fell: The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya”, published during the Covid-19 pandemic, my friend Dr Ooi Kee Beng wrote that “(H.S. Lee’s signature) is the only non-Malay signature on the Treaty of Malaya…

While the two-week ceasefire is a reprieve, the war is not over yet. The West Asia crisis – which only started less than two months ago on 28 February – is already moving towards a disruption as serious as the Covid-19 virus. The widely circulated…