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]
The 13 countries in ASEAN plus Three (‘APT’) can take pride in being one of the leading, if not the leading, groupings in the world where attracting investments in concerned. Paper presented by Huzaime Hamid at the NEAT Working Group on East Asian Investment Cooperation held at Weihai, China on 28 July 2006. Download
The ringgit is free but not floating freely. It is now under “managed??? float. Cynics would call it “dirty??? float. To them, a “clean??? float is synonymous with a “free??? float. The latter is labeled “clean??? as the exchange rate under this mode is determined by supply and demand for the currency without government interventions. … Read more
Economic crisis sparked political mobilization in both Malaysia and Indonesia in the late 1990s, but with very different results. Reformism in competitive electoral authoritarian Malaysia took a largely electoral route, yielding marginal, top-down institutional change and the enhancement of democratic norms. The hegemonic electoral authoritarian regime in neighbouring Indonesia, on the other hand, was toppled … Read more
It verges on tautology to say that internet use depends on internet availability. Obviously, the former will not occur in the absence of the latter. However, it is quite another thing to claim that there is a simple linear relationship between availability and use. It is conceivable that, once the diffusion of a communication technology … Read more