Opinions

Opinions
Budget 2026: From B40 to B70, Redefining Malaysia’s Middle Class

As Malaysia tightens its fiscal belt, Budget 2026 must prove that discipline need not come at the expense of a middle class already running out of room to breathe.
By Rais Hussin

2 weeks ago
Opinions
No Stage for a Genocide Enabler Trump at the ASEAN Summit

Trump’s visit would stain ASEAN’s conscience. Malaysia cannot honour a leader who armed impunity and called it peace.
By Rais Hussin

2 weeks ago
Opinions
Debt as Destiny: Turning Malaysia’s Liabilities into Sovereign Assets

Debt is not Malaysia’s enemy — indiscipline is; only by embedding rules, oversight, buffers, transparency, political consensus, and IOOI can borrowing become a lever of resilience rather than a ratchet of crisis.
By Rais Hussin

2 months ago
Opinions
Trash Overload: The Case for Integrated Waste Reform in Malaysia

Malaysia ranks among the world’s top marine plastic polluters and faces a growing e-waste crisis, yet systemic gaps continue to delay real reform.
By Avyce Heng and Margarita Peredaryenko

2 months ago
Opinions
AI in Malaysia: Caution Without Strategy is Its Own Mistake

AI can only transform Malaysia if caution is matched with strategy: governance, talent, and education working together to turn hype into impact.
By Rais Hussin

2 months ago
Opinions
Alaskan Summit: America’s Urgency and Russia’s Consistency

The Alaskan summit was never about Ukraine, but about managing the existential risks born of America’s war machine and Russia’s internal sabotage — a guardrail against miscalculation in the nuclear age.
By Rais Hussin

2 months ago
Foreign Policy
Reciprocal Tariffs Revisited: Relief for Some, Sovereignty for Sale?

A modest 7% U.S. tariff cut may mask a far greater price — quiet concessions in markets, resources, and policy space. In this “discount-for-compliance” model, the real cost is measured not in percentages, but in...
By Rais Hussin

2 months ago
Foreign Policy
The U.S. Blueprint for China’s Collapse and Its Own Unravelling

The Hudson Institute’s 128-page blueprint for China’s post-Communist collapse reads less like policy and more like imperial psychology — a projection of American delusion, revealing not China’s future but the mindset of a hegemon rehearsing...
By Rais Hussin

3 months ago
Foreign Policy
Through the BRICS Mirror: The West in Reflection

English English Published by TheStar, AstroAwani, & NST Online image by AstroAwani The Western media’s reaction to the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro was nothing short of predictable. Despite a summit marked by...
By Rais Hussin

3 months ago
Education and Social Policy
Underage and At Risk: What the Numbers Say About Malaysia’s Teen Sex Trend

Malaysia’s growing crisis of underage sexual activity is not a moral decay, but the outcome of policy enforcement gaps, weak education, and cultural silence.
By Avyce Heng and Margarita Peredaryenko

3 months ago

As Malaysia tightens its fiscal belt, Budget 2026 must prove that discipline need not come at the expense of a middle class already running out of room to breathe.

Trump’s visit would stain ASEAN’s conscience. Malaysia cannot honour a leader who armed impunity and called it peace.

Debt is not Malaysia’s enemy — indiscipline is; only by embedding rules, oversight, buffers, transparency, political consensus, and IOOI can borrowing become a lever of resilience rather than a ratchet of crisis.

Malaysia ranks among the world’s top marine plastic polluters and faces a growing e-waste crisis, yet systemic gaps continue to delay real reform.

AI can only transform Malaysia if caution is matched with strategy: governance, talent, and education working together to turn hype into impact.

The Alaskan summit was never about Ukraine, but about managing the existential risks born of America’s war machine and Russia’s internal sabotage — a guardrail against miscalculation in the nuclear age.

A modest 7% U.S. tariff cut may mask a far greater price — quiet concessions in markets, resources, and policy space. In this “discount-for-compliance” model, the real cost is measured not in percentages, but in...

The Hudson Institute’s 128-page blueprint for China’s post-Communist collapse reads less like policy and more like imperial psychology — a projection of American delusion, revealing not China’s future but the mindset of a hegemon rehearsing...

English English Published by TheStar, AstroAwani, & NST Online image by AstroAwani The Western media’s reaction to the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro was nothing short of predictable. Despite a summit marked by...

Malaysia’s growing crisis of underage sexual activity is not a moral decay, but the outcome of policy enforcement gaps, weak education, and cultural silence.