Opinions

Domestic Policy
Extending the economic emergency

There’s a need for the policy responses to the economic front to correspond more closely to the public health front in terms of urgency and stringency.
By Jason Loh

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
Very risky to reopen schools in September

Premature school reopening gambles our children’s life, health, and future functional capacity.
By Ameen Kamal

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
Breakthrough infections threaten NRP indicators and the fully-vaxxed

Breakthrough cases and high infectivity rate of variants could make vaccination targets to be underestimated, and threaten NRP indicators towards recovery.
By Ameen Kamal

3 years ago
Education and Social Policy
Preventing Unemployment Suicides

Early intervention on suicide prevention is necessary to help unemployed individuals with suicide attempts finding new ways to start all over again.
By Amanda Yeo

3 years ago
Education and Social Policy
Graduate unemployment (and under-employment) – part of our structural growth challenge

Otherwise, graduate and youth unemployment and under-employment will increasingly become a part of our broader structural growth challenge in the years to come.
By Rais Hussin and Jason Loh

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
Addressing structural issues to gain overall employability

The government has to work harder to ensure that the actual unemployment figures for subsequent months after June onwards can be brought down.
By Jamari Mohtar and Amanda Yeo

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
From regulatory incentive to fiscal incentive

Moving on from regulatory incentive to focusing now on fiscal incentive (financial & tax) – for both “essential” and “non-essential” sectors and sub-sectors.
By Rais Hussin and Jason Loh

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
A “MyRakyat” app for the people’s voice

An independent national platform to expose lawmakers to more frequent doses of ground reality.
By Ameen Kamal

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
Annual plastic usage is getting worse – 148,000 tonnes for food packaging alone

All Malaysians must come forward and work together with the government in reducing plastic packaging.
By Amanda Yeo

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
Whither Tabung Haji?

The regulatory improvement the government has in mind is in line with its intention for TH to return to its original mandate of managing depositors' savings for the purpose of performing hajj, in addition to...
By Jamari Mohtar

3 years ago

There’s a need for the policy responses to the economic front to correspond more closely to the public health front in terms of urgency and stringency.

Premature school reopening gambles our children’s life, health, and future functional capacity.

Breakthrough cases and high infectivity rate of variants could make vaccination targets to be underestimated, and threaten NRP indicators towards recovery.

Early intervention on suicide prevention is necessary to help unemployed individuals with suicide attempts finding new ways to start all over again.

Otherwise, graduate and youth unemployment and under-employment will increasingly become a part of our broader structural growth challenge in the years to come.

The government has to work harder to ensure that the actual unemployment figures for subsequent months after June onwards can be brought down.

Moving on from regulatory incentive to focusing now on fiscal incentive (financial & tax) – for both “essential” and “non-essential” sectors and sub-sectors.

An independent national platform to expose lawmakers to more frequent doses of ground reality.

All Malaysians must come forward and work together with the government in reducing plastic packaging.

The regulatory improvement the government has in mind is in line with its intention for TH to return to its original mandate of managing depositors' savings for the purpose of performing hajj, in addition to...