*The Future of Kuala Lumpur* *Public Forum on Draft KL City Plan 2020 (DKLCP)* Organised by Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower) & Socio-Economic Committee of the Kuala Lumpur-Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall The Draft Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020 is the blueprint of Kuala Lumpur for the next 12 years or more. It will have a … Read more
Anwar: I will roll back fuel hikeBy The Malaysian InsiderJune 8, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — Adding fuel to public resentment over the latest round of petrol price hike, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today promised to bring down prices once the Pakatan Rakyat assume control of the central government. How strong is this commitment? … Read more
Umno push for PM to reshuffle Cabinet, drop dissident ministersBy The Malaysian InsiderJune 8, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — Over the past few weeks, senior Umno officials have been urging Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to reshuffle his Cabinet and drop ministers who are not on the same page with him. These … Read more
Time to walk the talk and get public transportation moving By LEONG SHEN-LI, The StarJune 8, 2008 THE math is quite simple. With as little as RM7, you can travel almost anywhere on Klang Valley’s RapidKL’s buses and light rail transit for the whole day. With a monthly pass for RM135 – just … Read more
PM: Understand fuel price hike, play your role By Azura Abas , New Straits TimesJune 8, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR: The people should get accurate information on the global fuel price phenomena so that they can understand what the country is facing. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the government had … Read more
OPINION: New media spurring the winds of change By SANTHA OORJITHAM, Columnist, New Straits TimesJune 8, 2008 (From left) Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek, MCA’s Fui K. Soong, and Datuk Syed Arabi Idid Perception management is here to stay, politicians from both the Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat tell SANTHA OORJITHAM. The response, they claim, should … Read more
Let’s do the ‘lawyer walk’ Azly RahmanOct 2, 2007 Is this the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? When Jupiter lines up with Mars… A song by an R&B group The Fifth Dimension out of the turbulent Sixties, written for the musical Hair, reminds me of the lawyers’ walk on Wednesday. History is a pattern … Read more
Even with the crisis, Malaysia has recorded an impressive economic growth track record during the 1990s. Although we have made respectable gains in material wealth, it was not quite certain whether the overall quality of life has actually improved. Conventional economic measures such as GDP growth and unemployment rate can only give a narrow view … Read more
Migrant workers will, no doubt, continue to feature strongly in the Malaysian economy for some time. In this respect, Malaysia needs a clear and comprehensive long-term foreign labour policy, setting out the short-medium- and long-term targets and strategies that would be consistent with its restructuring goals of shifting towards high tech and skill industries. And … Read more
This report illustrates the economic relation between China and Malaysia in terms of trade, investment and economic co-operation from the viewpoint of Malaysia published by Institute of Developing Economies – Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) and Socio-Economic & Environmental Research Institute (SERI). [Download]