Look beyond Budget 2017 to boost growth, competitiveness
The 2017 Budget that will be unveiled tomorrow has riveted the nation’s attention more so this year than before...
Budget measures to spur investment, employment
Like the snake-and-ladder board game, after a steady climb in the global competitiveness ranking to 18th position last year from 25th position in 2012, the recently released Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows Malaysia’s ranking had slid back to where i
SME digital economic outlook
In Malaysia’s dynamic business landscape, SMEs can become disruptors, be disrupted or continue to operate in the business-as-usual (BAU) ways...
Inflation dynamics and its effects on economy
After nearly two years of low consumer prices and falling producer prices, their steady rise in the first quarter of this year suggests that higher inflation...
EMD economies bracing for more challenges
While the recent surge in exports and strengthening demand across most economies have buoyed expectations that the global economy is on an upward growth...
Globalisation marches on
While United States President Donald Trump’s threats of border taxes, immigration curbs and America First policies are seen as a roll-back of globalisation...
Embracing automation, innovation and disruptive technologies
The planned launch of the world’s first Digital Free Trade Zone in Malaysia in March this year has sparked interest not only among the wider public as consumers but also...
ASEAN integration can keep region above US–China fray
Many features of the US–Soviet cold war are present in contemporary US–China relations: ideological competition, struggles over the control of natural resources...
International Analysis: The Molotov Cocktail of Race and Religion in Malaysia
Last week, the highest court in Malaysia ruled that the Catholic Church cannot use the word “Allah” in its publication The Herald. The government argued...
One year later- UMNO holding all the cards
The country simply cannot progress when the main political discourse is political fascism and the country is drifting economically…
The Rising Dragon: Opportunity or fear?
This month marks the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the People’s Republic of China and the Federation of Malaysia...
Domestic Faultlines in Southeast Asia
Asian may look like a homogeneous body to the outside world...
