Month: June 2014
Is power sector reform stalled by Putrajaya’s intervention?
TMI Prior to 2004, licences were awarded to the Independent Power Producers (IPP) by the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) on ...
Survey: Most Malaysians against GST, don’t trust Putrajaya to implement it
TMI Despite Putrajaya's multi-million ringgit marketing blitz to promote the goods and services tax (GST), a survey by a private ...
Not one minute of airtime on MH370, sulks Anwar
Malaysiakini Unhappy with the lack of coverage he was given on the MH370 incident, PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim ...
Is Malaysia Asia’s weakest link?
Bloomberg View From missing airplanes to jail-bound opposition leaders, Malaysia has recently made international headlines for all the wrong reasons. Will the ...
Pings, pongs and pandas
Malaysiakini I can’t say I was surprised to hear the admission by US and Australian authorities that the electronic ‘pings’ they assumed ...
Tycoons can protest, but Malaysia’s crony capitalism is real
TMI Tan Sri Francis Yeoh does protest too much for someone who has benefited from being part of the system. ...
Everything you need to know about Thomas Piketty vs. The Financial Times
NYT Last Friday afternoon, The Financial Times released an expansive report accusing Thomas Piketty of doing shoddy analysis of data ...
Maya Angelou: ‘Her greatest stories were true’
Al-Jazeera Her poetry of self inspired the oppressed across the world to believe that they could reveal their personal experience. ...
Najib “ikut jejak” PM Singapura, saman Malaysiakini?
KPRU Semalam pada 3 Jun 2014, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan Setiausaha Kerja UMNO, Datuk Ab. Rauf Yusoh ...
Five messages Sisi must hear
by Emad Shahin 30th May 2014 Egypt’s presidential election is another blunder on the road map. The first was the ...