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  • Change in Malay political psyche

    Bloggers Buzz
    Change in Malay political psyche By ZAINUL ARIFIN, first published in The New Straits Times 30th April 2008.MUCH has been said about the recent transformation in Malaysian politics, namely the rejection of race-based politics, and the adoption, presumably...
  • Overview of Solid Waste Management in Malaysia

    Environment
    Author: Local Government Department, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. Publication/Conference: Seminar On Solid Waste Management (SWM) System, SERI, Penang, 4 December 2003 [Download]...
  • Bloggers Should Thread With Caution

    Bloggers Buzz
    Bloggers Should Thread With CautionA Kadir JasinFriday, April 25, 2008MANY commentators have been extremely critical of the RTM’s handling of the first blog programme on its TV1 prime time news on April 20.As I have stated in the previous posting, we sh...
  • Is East Asia Fit For An Optimum Currency Area? An Assessment Of The Economic Feasibility Of A Higher Degree Of Monetary Cooperation In East Asia

    Economics
    This paper attempts to make a contribution to the recent search for a suitable assessment of the economic feasibility of a higher degree of monetary cooperation in East Asia. By using a structural vector autoregression approach as well as a generalized pu...
  • Educational development and reformation in Malaysia: past, present and future

    Education
    Educational development and reform in Malaysia have always been characterized by the government’s efforts to adapt education to national development needs. The essence of educational development and reformation, as in other developing countries, has alw...
  • Public management reform in Malaysia: Recent initiatives and experiences

    Public Administration
    Abstract: Purpose – The present paper seeks to examine the recent changes in public management in Malaysia in relation to new public management and assess their impacts on administrative performance and service delivery. Design/methodology/approach – ...
  • Urban development and urban poverty in Malaysia

    Social
    Malaysia has been experiencing rapid economic and social transformation over the past three decades. Its economy grew 6.7 per cent per annum during 19711990, Malaysia, 1991) and currently Malaysia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Its ...
  • BUM2008 - 1st May 2008

    Press Statements
    BUM2008 TO PROMOTE CIVIL SOCIETY ON MAY 1Yes, on the First of May – the Bloggers’ Hap Event of the Year in Malaysia will take place at Lake View Club, Subang Jaya, Selangor. The BUM2008 Organising Committee selected this day to also celebrate Labour D...
  • Linguistic supremacy and hegemony: The roads not taken post-1969

    Social
    One of the most glaring failures of the Malaysian nation-building project is our failure to develop a national language that is actually used as the lingua franca of all Malaysians, writes Farish Noor. While the laborious debate over whether BM should be ...