How tourism can and should be developed in Malaysia
I am not sure how Tourism Malaysia measures its full key performance indicator (KPI). For an ordinary rakyat Malaysia like me, what I hear is the number of visitors coming into the country every year.
Malaysia can turn drug repurposing into a public-good engine
Countries, health systems, and patients across the Global South face significant challenges in accessing treatment due to high costs, particularly for cancer and rare diseases. Novel targeted cancer therapies can reach RM15,000–20,000 per dose, and personalised gene therapies for rare conditions may exceed several million ringgit. This puts them far beyond what most patients and healthcare systems can afford.
Building resilience, one recycled bottle at a time
ON June 24, Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming launched the National Recycling Campaign in a mall in Bukit Bintang, which is one of Malaysia's busiest commercial districts.
Malaysia's rainforest resorts are the world's best-kept secret – and that has to change
A reflection from the Belum Rainforest Resort in Perak.
Indo-Pacific region does not need another imported security crisis
The Indo-Pacific does not need to be converted into the next theatre of externally managed "peace through strength", especially when the Middle East has just shown how quickly US-designed security architecture can produce insecurity for everyone.
Asia’s clinical trials boom must deliver access, not just data
Asia's rise as a clinical trial region is often presented as a success story, and there is truth in that. The region offers large and diverse patient populations, growing scientific capacity, lower trial costs than the United States or Europe, and disease profiles that are highly relevant to global health needs.
Navigating a world on fire
Sixty-nine days into a war that nobody in South-East Asia provoked let alone started, Asean leaders gathered in Cebu confronting an uncomfortable reality: even regions that pride themselves on strategic non-alignment are not shielded from the consequences of great-power conflict.
Active neutrality in a dangerous era: Malaysia's test from Hormuz to Strait of Malacca
The war over Iran is no longer only a Gulf crisis. Its consequences are travelling through maritime chokepoints, monetary systems and Malaysian household budgets.
Politics needs to wait as Malaysia faces oil crisis
KUALA LUMPUR: The country is in a crisis mode.
The American unipolar deflation: What the war on Iran really exposes
FOR months, the world has watched what was meant to be a decisive US‑Israeli campaign against Iran. But instead of a quick, surgical victory, we are witnessing something far more instructive: the visible, irreversible deflation of American hegemony — delivered not through a single battlefield defeat, but through a slow‑motion implosion spanning military logistics, internal US political warfare, and the rise of a civilizational state that Washington never even understood.
The invisible backbone: Help M40 before it breaks
IN the halls of Putrajaya and within politicians' speeches, Malaysia's Middle 40 per cent (M40) is often celebrated as a success story - proof of a maturing economy and an expanding consumer class.
