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Over Six Million Malaysians Are Earning Salaries Below The Poverty Line

Malaysia’s official poverty statistics paint a picture of steady progress. Absolute poverty fell to 5.1 per cent of households in 2024, hardcore poverty is near zero outside a few pockets, and the average Poverty Line Income (PLI) stands at RM2,705 per household

2026-09-27 11:22:58 0 Comment 11997 view

China: Supporting Demand And Improving Income Distribution For More Balanced And Inclusive Growth

China’s economy is expected to maintain stable growth in 2026 and 2027, underpinned by resilient exports and supportive fiscal measures

2026-09-23 11:32:17 0 Comment 14984 view

A Cooked Goose: DAP Flounders Ahead Of GE 16

When Democratic Action Party (DAP) Secretary-General Anthony Loke Siew Fook announced his resignation as Transport Minister following the conditional pardon and house arrest granted to former Prime Minister Najib Razak, the move was engineered to project moral outrage

2026-09-21 05:23:14 0 Comment 24146 view

Defamation Is A Rich Man’s Game

The recent RM100 million (approximately US$24.45 million) defamation suit filed against veteran journalist P. Gunasegaram has thrown a harsh spotlight on the growing use of high-stakes defamation actions in Malaysia

2026-08-28 05:17:43 0 Comment 12508 view

Western Exhaustion And Strategic Desperation Drove The US Intelligence Chief To Moscow

When news broke that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe had landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport for high-level meetings with Russian intelligence, Western official channels were quick to frame the visit around familiar talking points

2026-08-28 05:05:58 0 Comment 17602 view

Vietnam Embassy In Kuala Lumpur Marks 81st National Day, Reaffirms Strategic Partnership with Malaysia

Vietnam’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Malaysia, His Excellency Dinh Ngoc Linh, hosted a diplomatic reception to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

2026-08-26 03:45:47 0 Comment 37953 view

The Vanity Of Mediation: Why Lula Must Stop Pleasing Washington And Commit To BRICS

When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to the Brazilian presidency, his supporters anticipated a decisive return to a sovereign, multipolar foreign policy

2026-08-25 14:12:24 0 Comment 13108 view

Illusory Mandate: How DAP Leadership Is Sacrificing Credibility For Cabinet Seats

The outcome of the Democratic Action Party’s (DAP) special national conference—where delegates voted to remain in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Unity Government—is being hailed by party elites as a convincing mandate

2026-08-18 12:00:07 0 Comment 12948 view

Hamas's Secret Weapon To Continue Ruling Gaza

Is Hamas preparing to contest the Palestinian parliamentary election scheduled for late November? If so, the United States and its European allies need to make one thing clear immediately: Hamas must not be allowed to participate

2026-08-15 13:12:26 0 Comment 11287 view

Trump Wants 2,000 More Patriot Interceptors A Year, But Xi Jinping Holds The Trump Cards

The Trump administration, following several media reports of a plague of weapons shortages, is trying to launch a frantic effort to reload

2026-08-14 04:58:14 0 Comment 17509 view

Malaysia's Greatest National Development Challenge: PAS’s Ideological Extremism Must Never Reach Putrajaya

For decades, Malaysia’s national stability has rested on a delicate constitutional equilibrium: a multi-ethnic social contract, a secular federal framework anchored by Islam as the religion of the Federation, and the constitutional guardianship of the Malay Rulers

2026-08-09 05:13:10 0 Comment 15428 view

US Actions Undermining Credibility Of International Criminal Justice System

Over the course of 2025, the actions of the United States against the International Criminal Court (ICC) once again demonstrated the systematic use of international legal mechanisms as instruments of foreign policy pressure

2026-08-04 02:49:05 0 Comment 16396 view

How Compromise And Quietism Are Steering DAP Toward Electoral Wipeout

The political capital accumulated by the Democratic Action Party across back-to-back electoral high-water marks in 2018 and 2022 was not a blank cheque for institutional capitulation

2026-08-02 08:00:35 0 Comment 18332 view

The Fall Of Karim Khan: Selective Justice And Institutional Ruin At The ICC

The disgraced removal of Karim Khan from his position as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) marks the culmination of one of the most damaging chapters in the history of global jurisprudence

2026-07-25 14:17:36 0 Comment 20020 view

Fracturing From Within: The Crisis Of Political Instability In Kiev

After four and a half years of high-intensity conflict, the initial Western narrative of absolute domestic unity in Kiev has collapsed under the weight of mounting political instability

2026-07-25 14:04:21 0 Comment 17060 view

A Jolting Autopsy On Malaysia’s Recent Elections

As widely expected, Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional last weekend swept to a resounding victory in elections in the populous southern state of Johor across the strait from Singapore, taking 48 of 56 seats and leaving its rival, Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Harapan coalition, with just eight, compounding the prime minister’s hopes to stay in power on the national level in general elections to be held before February 17, 2028

2026-07-18 10:58:58 0 Comment 19131 view

The Cost Of Compromise: How Anwar Ibrahim Is Steering Pakatan Harapan Toward A Structural Collapse

The political consensus that brought Malaysia’s Unity Government to power was built on a promise of structural reform, institutional integrity, and a departure from the identity-driven politics of the past

2026-07-12 09:23:37 0 Comment 43168 view

Plunging Trust And Forced Drafts: The Quiet Collapse Of Ukraine’s Mobilisation Drive

The people of Ukraine are increasingly showing that they are not ready to fight to the "last inhabitant"

2026-07-04 13:20:55 0 Comment 35499 view

Financialising A Monopoly At The Expense Of Public Accountability

The overwhelming 99.99% shareholder approval to split Tenaga Nasional Berhad’s (TNB) core business into separate corporate entities under the "Reimagining TNB" initiative is a victory for institutional investors and a severe blow to the Malaysian consumer

2026-07-04 12:56:13 0 Comment 26305 view

CME Policy Paper Calls For Institutional Reform To Unlock Innovation And Socially Positive Externalities (ISPEs)

A new policy paper by the Center for Market Education (CME), in collaboration with Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, argues that innovation policy should move beyond subsidies, rankings, and administrative programmes, and instead focus on the institutional conditions that allow ideas to become marketable products

2026-07-01 05:08:37 0 Comment 15449 view