Malaysia’s defining moment and the new economic agenda

Anwar Ibrahim delivered a powerful speech at the CLSA Corporate Access Forum in Singapore to an overflow audience of the region’s most creative and influential investors and businessmen. His speech gave a detailed assessment of the current political and economic situation in Malaysia and the vision that the Pakatan Rakyat has developed for the future of the country.

Link pay of leaders to happiness index

Kin Lian suggests an alternative barometer for performance.

工会、新闻媒体以及人民

让国人吃……洗洁剂? 让媒体报道洗洁剂的价格,是不是凸显了一个更深沉的利益冲突,足以危害这个国家呢? 在这个锱铢必较的非常时期,我们需要一个公正的资讯平台来避免各怀鬼胎的宣传,好让国人知道应该去哪里才能找到最便宜的商品。

Crisis in Myanmar and the responsibility to protect

By Hannah Ruth Chia (RSIS)

TOC sports new look, keeps same vision

TOC undergoes more changes.

ThinkBox forum – “Money: Women & Men” (Wed, May 21)

Why a man is not a financial plan.

I knew because he told me

‘It also doesn’t mean that just because you are in opposition politics, you must also oppose everything. I believe in voting for the deserving candidate regardless of the party.’ In view of the brickbats he has been getting, does Mr Yaw regret publicising his vote in the first place? ‘No regrets,’ was his emphatic reply. From The New Paper.

Burma should be suspended from Asean

The best thing Asean can do right now is to suspend Burma from the grouping. It will be a huge relief to many of us not to be associated with those ogres anymore. It should be plain to anyone by now that the junta does not intend to live up to the spirit of Asean. From Yawning Bread

The rise and fall of rice

Sze Hian scrutinises the prices of rice at NTUC FairPrice.

ICA, MOM refuse to release Burmese statistics

TOC’s Selene Cheng runs into an iron veil of secrecy.