Deputy Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Liew Chin Tong takes a close look at the Malaysian business titans’ impact on China’s development, from the 1900s to today.
Reformasi is testimony to the mutual influences stemming from Malaysia and Indonesia’s heritage of a common language and cultural affinities.
The opposition has pledged to support the Ismail Sabri administration’s bills if it carries out several reforms, including amending the constitution to end party-hopping and capping the prime minister’s tenure at 10 years.
Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s appointment as Malaysia’s third premier in three years, with a slim majority, means the PM is no longer able to lord over everyone in the political system.
Covid-19 has exposed Malaysia’s political divisions, unwieldy bureaucracy and capacity – or lack thereof – to deal with a crisis, says Liew Chin Tong.
PM Muhyiddin now has unfettered powers after calling a state of emergency to handle surging Covid-19 cases, the first time one has been declared since racial riots in 1969, but voters will not tolerate a return to authoritarian rule.
Malaysia’s shifting alliances, past betrayals, internal party divisions and future electoral prospects make for a complex and unstable situation.
The only way for Malaysians to prevent a full restoration of the Old Order (Umno) is to mobilise for a rumoured election in three months’ time.
Beijing shouldn’t use the China-US binary to define the world but forge ties with Asian neighbours without behaving like a big power or causing anxiety among smaller nations, says Malaysia’s Deputy Defence Minister Liew Chin Tong.
Deputy minister of defence champions a ‘whole of society’ approach as well as greater cooperation between governments.
The thinking of Malaysia’s new prime minister – ‘Mahathir 2.0’ – offers an insight into weaker states’ views of the evolving Asian order in the Trump-Xi era and suggest a firmer stance on the South China Sea