Malaysia’s eighth prime minister has already described himself as merely a ‘footnote’ in history. With the nation’s shortest prime ministerial tenure of only 532 days, Muhyiddin Yassin’s seventeen months in office will be remembered chiefly for the Covid-19 pandemic, arguably one of Malaysia’s most traumatic experiences. Officially, nearly 14,000 people lost their...
Articles / 01.05.2021
Malaysian youth in peril
Taken from malaysiakini.com. Co-authored with Calvin Cheng. Young Malaysians are under siege. Covid-19 has created a perfect storm of economic, social, and political pressures that will have long-term implications for an entire generation of young Malaysians, and for the future of the Malaysian economy and society as a whole. Economic hardships It is...
Articles / 12.04.2021
No plan B for Singapore’s leadership succession
Heng Swee Keat’s departure exposes serious internal challenges for the PAP...
Articles / 18.09.2020
Old and new politics blend in Sabah
Do not be fooled by what is on the surface of the campaign...
Six months after the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government came together to take over the federal government, the divisions in the governing coalitions of convenience are openly apparent. Not a day goes by without one of the different component parties taking a jab at others, be it with calls for the...
Malaysian court has sentenced former PM Najib Razak to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty on all seven counts in the first of several multi-million-dollar corruption trials....
Articles / 08.07.2020
Shattered dreams of reformasi?
To say this is failing to understand reformasi and underestimates the sentiments and political shifts taking place on the ground...
Malaysian states that stand out in their responses include Penang, Sabah, S’wak, S’gor and T’ganu....
Video / 01.07.2020
The Chini By-Election
Bridget Welsh on The Nation to discuss the Chini By-Election...
Public lecture at Australian National University...