Join a conversation with UNM’s Assistant Professor at the School of Media, Languages and Cultures, Gayathry Venkiteswaran, on how COVID-19 has affected the media environment in Malaysia and broader Southeast Asia. Special attention centres on rights, the financial impact on media and recommendations on how to access accurate information in...
Video / 28.05.2020
COVID-19 Conversations 7: Sarawak State COVID-19: Coordination and Technology with Dr Sim Kui-Hian
Join a discussion of Sarawak’s response to COVID-19 and the unique challenges the state faces with Dr. Sim Kui-Hian. From addressing the rural-urban divide to managing vulnerabilities and Sarawak’s long border with neighbors, Dr. Sim lays out the approaches the state has taken. He highlights the role of technology and...
Video / 18.05.2020
COVID-19 Conversations 4: Selangor State COVID-19 Task Force with Dr Dzulkefly & Dr Helmi
Join a discussion on how Malaysia’s Selangor state’s approach to COVID-19 complements and differs from the measures implemented by the Ministry of Health of the federal government with two members of the Selangor State Task Force on COVID-19 – former minister of health Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and Dr Helmi Zakariah....
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 / 24.04.2020
Muhyiddin is locked down, and the way out
Covid-19 provides an opportunity for new political arrangements....
Articles / 18.04.2020
Malaysia’s youth on the unemployed frontline
While the old may face greater health risks, it’s the young who will bear the brunt of a recession....
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....