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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-PSM is disgusted by the lackadaisical response from the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry YB Liew Chin Tong, who deliberately downplayed the adverse impacts of the CPTPP agreement in Parliament yesterday.  

BANGKOK, Thailand-As the Covid-19 pandemic is becoming endemic, the actions and decisions made by key government members at the time, must be reviewed.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-The 2023 Budget will be tabled, belatedly, on 24th February 2023. It was initially tabled in late October 2022 as is the normal practice.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-The Center for Market Education (CME) expresses serious concerns about the fact that PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar has been appointed as a senior adviser to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on economics and finance.

BANGKOK, Thailand--There is more than meets the eye to the Anwar Ibrahim and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi relationship.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--On 29th November, I wrote this article captioned ‘Unity government: Will ‘rakyat’ be sacrificed for political expediency’. 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--A major feature of Malaysia’s political system has been the persistent link between politics and business, a phenomenon commonly referred to as money politics or political business. This political-business nexus has a multi-dimensional form, with each trait subject to change. The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 Center) has prepared Business in Politics: Seeking Control of Malaysia’s Political System, a report that draws attention to previously unnoted forms of connections between politics and business that merit attention, what we have termed as business-in-politics, with a focus on sitting Members of Parliament. The MPs under review have been mired in controversial corporate-related matters, have off-shore accounts and foreign business interests, or have hopped out of the party or coalition under whose ticket they won a seat in Parliament.

BANGKOK, Thailand--Amid speculation about when Prime Minister Ismail Sabri will call an election, floods, a falling Ringgit, and post-pandemic recovery, the 2023 budget was delivered by Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz to the Dewan Rakyat on Friday afternoon. This budget is crucial for Ismail Sabri’s electoral popularity, as it will be the last budget before the 15th general election due by September 2023.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Semalam, Menteri Kewangan Tengku Zafrul menyangkah suara rakyat (termasuk saya) yang bimbang akan penurunan nilai mata wang Ringgit dan mendakwa ada pihak yang cuba mempolitikkan semua perkara untuk mencetuskan polemik.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz announced that the government is considering a windfall tax and a capital gain tax to support federal revenues in a moment of difficulty.