Muddling through as we did in the past two decades would only exacerbate the current grim reality: Malaysians are voting with their feet and moving abroad in search of better opportunities.
Media statement by DAP National Political Education Director and Member of Dewan Negara Liew Chin Tong on 7th October 2020 As of 6th October, 8.3% of Malaysia’s Covid-19 positive cases are prison inmates and prison officers or staff (1,126 out of 13,504 total cases). Cases…
In the spirit of Merdeka, we need to draw from history and geography to re-imagine Malaysia. Our discourse has often been too insular and inward-looking. In fact, our history and geography tell us that the Malacca Sultanate was a great metropolitan city linked to the…
This day 75 years ago on 15th August 1945, Japan surrendered, marking the final end of World War II. World War II was the most destructive war ever in human history. While the First World War was mostly an affair of European nations, nowhere was…
For Malaysia to move forward, we need to have a new framing for our political and economic discourses. Malaysia’s race/communal politics traces its roots to the Japanese occupation and the immediate aftermath in 1945. That was 75 years ago. The UMNO-dominant polity began in the…
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)…
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…
This call to action on prison overcrowding is purely an act of conscience and non-partisan. Prison inmates have as much right as anyone else to remain safe from diseases. This is all the more so when the disease is as infectious and dangerous as COVID-19.…
I applaud Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for adopting the #kitajagakita framing we advocated in his speech on 10th April. He also adopted the word “new normal”, a welcoming sign from the Prime Minister that he comprehends our world would not remain the same again, even…
Muhyiddin agreed with me that Bersatu is the smallest party with the least ground infrastructure among the three Malay parties competing to contest in the same seats as well as making the same political claims.