Can Anwar, the man who wrote a book on “his vision for a more tolerant, pluralistic Asia”, bring together a divided Malaysia?
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Malaysians voted for change in this month’s election. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s new administration now needs to deliver.
Malaysian voters tossed the corrupt Najib Razak out of office despite efforts by his party to sway the result. A former dictator is back in charge, about to free his onetime political foe from jail.
Malaysia’s audacious use of dirty politics and pre-electoral rigging to tilt the level playing field in its upcoming general elections is contributing to a global democratic crisis.
With an election due by August, Malaysian politics has been spiced up – with a former prime minister re-entering the fray.
Objections from certain sectors of Malaysian society to the film neatly illustrates both the fear and lack of understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the country.
My taxi driver laughed as the newsreader concluded the announcement that Anwar Ibrahim’s appeal against his conviction for sodomy had been refused, and that the leader of Malaysia’s fragmentary opposition…
In the latest press conference on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has said there is sufficient evidence that the airliner crashed in a remote part of the Indian…
In Malaysia, disgruntlement and promise of change tends to result in the retention of the status quo. Enthusiastic reformers (pretenders or otherwise) are noisier rather than effective. Voters, at the…
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Visiting Fellow, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University
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Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, McMaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT University
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Head of School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, University of Nottingham
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