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The Window For De-Escalation Is Short — Thailand And Cambodia Must Seize It Now With Trump And Anwar

One truth that Thailand and Cambodia must acknowledge is that the window for de-escalation and the opening for credible conflict management is rapidly narrowing

2025-12-05 04:51:52 0 Comment 19967 view

Iran Is Building A Missile Empire, The World Looks Away

Little attention is being paid to Iran in the aftermath of the 12‑Day War, but the threat it now poses is growing significantly

2025-11-24 13:37:07 0 Comment 20028 view

The FIFA Scandal Is A Mirror Of Deeper Failures In Malaysian Football

The recent FIFA penalties imposed on the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) are not merely a sporting embarrassment they are a glaring symptom of the long-rooted institutional rot that has plagued Malaysian football for too long

2025-11-21 01:40:43 0 Comment 62123 view

Sabah Mineral Scandal Developments Illustrate Pressing Need For Political Financing Regulation

Startling revelations continue to emerge on the Sabah mineral scandal, with a whistleblower recently alleging that Sabah Deputy Chief Minister I Jeffrey Kitingan received payments amounting to RM1.78 million

2025-09-29 05:07:07 0 Comment 31947 view

Why The Gig Workers Bill Must Go Ahead Based On Principled, Evidence-Based Research

North South Initiative notes that there are some quarters heeding a call to derail the Gig Workers Bill based on the assertion that the Bill will impose drastic and immediate cost increases on workers, consumers and platforms

2025-09-04 04:33:54 0 Comment 30727 view

Trump’s Deterrent Factor and ASEAN’s Limited Hand in Thailand-Cambodia Discord

The Thailand-Cambodia conflict transcends the current ASEAN mechanism and capacity alone to deter or manage, seeing how its historical, contextual and nationalistic multi-factorial setting has shaped the spectrum of the conflict that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) alone is not able to fully resolve

2025-08-24 12:26:22 0 Comment 51234 view

Turkey: Sweeping Arrests, Torture, Censorship

On March 19, just days before the March 23 primaries of Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu -- the CHP's leading candidate who was thought by many possibly to win the next presidential election against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- was arrested on contested charges of "corruption and terrorism."

2025-05-02 03:32:11 0 Comment 63910 view

Petra News Staff Demand Unpaid Wages, EPF, PCB, And SOCSO Contributions For 2024

Approximately 15 employees of Petra News Sdn Bhd, the publisher of news portals The Malaysian Insight, The Vibes, and Getaran, are demanding the immediate payment

2025-02-17 11:51:14 0 Comment 93060 view

The U.S. Presidential Election & How It Affects Malaysia 

The upcoming U.S. presidential election in 2024 has Malaysia, like much of Southeast Asia, carefully weighing its options in a world shifting from unipolar to multipolar

2024-11-07 05:04:51 0 Comment 65928 view

Coalition Urges EU To Designate Sarawak-state As ‘High-Risk’ Under New Deforestation Law

A coalition of environmental, human rights and indigenous organisations have urged the European Union to address its rights concerns by classifying Sarawak as “high risk”

2024-09-27 09:11:48 0 Comment 62755 view

China Fines PwC Over Illegal Audit Services For Evergrande

: China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on Friday announced "maximum" penalties on global auditing firm PwC

2024-09-16 11:58:26 0 Comment 66825 view

Ex-Paraguay Prez Finds Himself On Wrong Side Of US Power

In early August, the U.S. Treasury quietly sanctioned the tobacco company of Paraguay’s former president, Horacio Cartes

2024-09-09 04:42:12 0 Comment 62296 view

Investigate CrowdStrike Outage: Compensation Issues Must Be Addressed

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: The recent global IT outage, reportedly caused by a single antivirus update by antivirus firm CrowdStrike for Microsoft’s Windows OS, has wreaked havoc on businesses, governments, and the public worldwide, with losses estimated in the billions.

2024-07-27 06:28:59 0 Comment 85426 view

Zaluzhny Firing Not Even A Band-Aid As Ukraine Strategy Bleeds Out

WASHINGTON, US: President Volodymyr Zelensky’s dismissal of the Ukrainian army chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, is a colossal political gamble for Zelensky and seems to indicate an increasing mood of desperation in Kyiv. 

 

2024-02-11 10:11:56 0 Comment 93898 view

Philippine Court Comes Down Hard On Child-Abusing Mom

HONGKONG, SAR: A court in the Philippines has sentenced a 32-year-old mother to four life terms in prison for exploiting her six-year-old son and one-year-old girl for profit in one of the strongest penalties against online sexual abuse of children.

 

2023-11-23 12:28:17 0 Comment 126368 view

Malaysia Needs Multipartisan Push For Commitment To Fiscal Responsibility

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-IDEAS calls for a multi-partisan push to discuss and finalise the fiscal responsibility measures that were announced in the budget. 

 

2023-02-27 14:41:43 0 Comment 90563 view

The Corruption Of Massive Industry ‘Sweeteners’ In Foreign Arm Sales

WASHINGTON, U.S.-Sometimes the most secretive and risky parts of an arms deal are not the weapons.

2023-02-26 11:37:42 0 Comment 105849 view

What’s Behind The Houthis’ Repeated Attacks In South Yemen?

WASHINGTON, U.S.--Since the UN-brokered truce expired on October 2, the Houthi rebels have launched drone attacks on civilian oil ports in oil-rich provinces outside their territorial control.

2022-11-21 09:43:59 0 Comment 114962 view

U.S. Presidents Refuse To Protect The U.S. From North Korea's Nukes

NEW YORK, U.S.--North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile on October 4 over Japan. The Hwasong-12 traveled farther downrange than any other of Pyongyang's missiles. 

 

2022-10-12 03:15:32 0 Comment 124610 view

Washington Threatens Beijing With Sanctions For Buying Russian Oil, Stance On Ukraine

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--According to Bloomberg TV channel, US Republican senators called on the authorities to introduce restrictive measures against insurers of oil tankers transporting fuel from Russia to China.

2022-08-31 03:11:19 0 Comment 121202 view