Foreign car fuel ban offBy The StarThursday June 5, 2008 PUTRAJAYA: The ban on foreign-registered cars to buy petrol and diesel at border states has been lifted following the fuel price increase. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad said it was no longer necessary to bar foreign vehicles from going to … Read more
The latest results from the governorial elections in the provinces of West Java and North Sumatra, Indonesia, would suggest that a sea-change of sorts is taking place in Indonesia. Shortly after the shock election results following the general election in Malaysia earlier this year, the governorial elections of Indonesia has led to the victory of … Read more
It is puzzling for some why Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who won a landslide general election in 2004, is calling a snap election on March 8 this year, a whole year ahead of the mandatory five years. Much of the reasoning revolves around two factors; the economy and Anwar Ibrahim. Publication: Opinion Asia, 15 … Read more
By proposing the Crawford summit during the APEC meetings in Sydney, Bush responded adroitly to the nervous chatter. A summit at his personal residence, although not as grand a backdrop as the White House, is an unmistakable display of support for the region. Publication: Opinion Asia, 20 Sep 2007. Author: Sim, Edmund. Download
Indeed, terrorism and insurgency were much more acute problems in nearly all the Southeast Asian countries from the 1940s to 1980s. Similarly, religious consciousness and identity began to rise in Southeast Asia from the 1970s. While it is more visually pronounced among the Muslims, it is also evident among followers of other faiths, especially Christianity … Read more
Anyone observing the national unity scene in Malaysia would have noted the signs of decline for quite some time now. Views differ over when the slide began in earnest. I, like quite a few others, would put it in the Seventies, when issues of race and identity became sharpened after a spell when they moderated … Read more
It is widely known that many MNCs/LSIs are developing supplier networks of competitive SMI/Es to complement their core activities. However, it is also a known fact that many of the local SMI/Es remain de-linked from the MNCs/LSIs, and thus are at disadvantage in terms of technological spillovers, access to markets, information technology as well as … Read more
This chapter attempts to shed some light on the impact of privatisation in the Malaysian water sector by employing a quantitative based empirical analysis. Malaysia is useful country case study on the impact of privatisation in the water sector. There is a variety of forms of institutions in its water sector – full privatisation, partial … Read more
We examine the market’s reaction around a series of events on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) where the Malaysian government removed short selling restrictions on selected stocks and then subsequently reimposed these restrictions. These events provide a unique opportunity to analyse the effects of short selling restrictions on the price formation process in an … Read more
The dilemma common to Southeast Asia’s societies today stems from a bias towards nation-state thinking, kept alive by the fact that political discourses are western in nature, and Southeast Asian leaders and intellectuals are largely trained in the west to favour Westphalian ideas. Publication: Opinion Asia, 28 Feb 2008. Author: Ooi, Kee Beng. Download