Editorial: Vote at 16?
The New Zealand Supreme Court lowering the voting age to 16, stating that the present minimum age is discriminatory.
Uncertainty in Malaysia
The results of Saturday’s election showed that identity politics remained an effective tool to win the hearts and minds of voters, especially the majority Malay Muslims.
Retno and Sri Mulyani, President Jokowi’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’ in G-20
While President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo reaped international plaudits for the success, the historic achievement has underlined the pivotal role of two female Cabinet ministers.
The Malay-Muslim politics and Malaysia’s GE15
Malaysia’s GE15 is expected to be less in ideological battle like in GE14, but more on contestants’ performance.
The nuclear option for Philippines
The present circumstances—rising fuel costs and the presidential bid to rehabilitate the Marcosian past—seem to be bringing a critical mass to finally taking the nuclear…
More extensive indicators of poverty line needed to better measure poverty incidence
The income-poverty line must be accompanied by a multidimensional-poverty assessment for a better extreme-poverty eradication policy.
GE15: Hot seats a barometer for polls results, says analyst
How the coalitions and parties perform in these seats will indicate who forms the next Federal government.
The forgotten overseas voters
The election commission should seriously review the existing postal voting system so that the same nightmare will not keep repeating every five years.
Chinese education should not be exploited as election chip
Like in all previous elections, Chinese language education has found itself being a chip contesting parties would keep exploiting to win over the local Chinese community.
When crowds are back
The pandemic is yet to end, but relaxed protocol restrictions have brought some level of return to mass gathering and with it we have seen the bottled up thirst for live events…