The new Asia Barometer Survey finds greater tolerance of diversity but also growing political division and disenchantment with democracy since the last survey in 2015....
Video / 14.05.2020
COVID-19 Conversations 3: Business Transformations & COVID-19 with Rafiq Jumabhoy
Prominent regional consultant Rafiq Jumabhoy discusses how businesses are responding to COVID-19 and the shifts that are taking place in key sectors - travel, retail and manufacturing. He points to how work and businesses will shift in the post COVID-19 environment, with special attention to Malaysia....
Join a discussion updating the situation for Rohingya in Southeast Asia with Lillianne Fan, Chair of the Asia-Pacific Refugee Rights Network's Rohingya Working Group. She discusses the challenges the Rohingya are facing and the obstacles in the COVID-19 environment....
Video / 10.05.2020
COVID-19 Conversations 1: Introduction
Dr Gaik Cheng Khoo & Dr Bridget Welsh from the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute Malaysia (UoNARI-M) introduces our lecture series entitled COVID-19 Conversations where they sit down with experts from the interdisciplinary network of UoNARI Malaysia to look at what are the broader effects on society, economy and...
Articles / 09.05.2020
Malaysia’s slick politics of oil
Putrajaya is facing a twin problem – plunge in oil prices and the demand for oil royalties from states....
Articles / 24.04.2020
Muhyiddin is locked down, and the way out
Covid-19 provides an opportunity for new political arrangements....
These are individuals who are on the ‘other’ frontline of the crisis - the poor....
Malaysia’s social capital can be a force to reduce the spread of the virus....
Articles / 07.03.2020
Dissolution: Bubar menjadi bubur?
How the parties will fare should Parliament be dissolved....
Articles / 02.03.2020
Irony and opportunity in the power grab
The opposite of what most Malaysians voted for has happened....