Geo Politics

It’s intense how the ruling Palang Pracharath Party is being pushed by its supporters, likely at the detriment of coalition unity, to field a candidate in a by-election in Nakhon Si Thammarat. Rong Boonsuaykwan, Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Palang Pracharath MP and leader of the Area 8 party group of MPs, said representatives of the province want the party to challenge …

Surprisingly, according to Chief Opposition Whip and Pheu Thai MP Sutin Klungsang, there are some 45 opposition MPs are queuing up to quiz Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and nine cabinet ministers in the imminent no-confidence debate. It was highlighted that the opposition parties had debated how to share time between them and had so far asked for 45 MPs on …

Mayor Isko Moreno declared that Manila plans to vaccinate at least 18,000 people against COVID-19 every day until the city government carries out the inoculation scheme. Surprisingly, this will amount to 540,000 inoculated people every month. He shared that there are 18 vaccination centers in operation, mainly public schools, to roll out the vaccines. Meanwhile, To expand the number of …

Due to political ineptitude and the inability to handle the Covid-19 crisis under the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration, is Malaysia in danger of going down the same road and being seen as the new ‘sick man’ of Asia in the 2020s? At the beginning of 2021, the PN government’s failure to handle the third wave of Covid-19 cases culminated in …

In line with the request of the Paris-based watchdog Financial Action Task Force for the government to review its policies against dirty money, President Duterte signed into law Republic Act 11521, which further strengthens the 20-year-old Anti-Money Laundering Act, yesterday. Duterte beat the February 1st deadline that was set by the FATF for introducing improvements to AMLA by signing the …

SINGAPORE — On Friday, Finance Minister Zafrul Aziz said that the ongoing lockdown of Malaysia to contain Covid-19 would hit the economy much less than the previous one when more economic activity was limited. The new round of steps cost Malaysia a lost economic production or GDP of an estimated 700 million ringgit ($172.7 million) a day, the minister said. …

KUALA LUMPUR: In the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2020, Malaysia dropped six spots to 57th position among 180 countries. Dr Muhammad Mohan, president of Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M), said Malaysia’s score also worsened to 51 out of 100 points in the CPI survey. “We may have dropped by two points which are statistically insignificant, but the …

KUALA LUMPUR- Malaysian retail investors are looking to buy stocks of medical glove manufacturers, encouraged by the recent rally at U.S. company GameStop Corp., to push up their share prices and squeeze out short sellers. As amateur United States investors poured in and pressured hedge funds to lose billions on their short positions, GameStop shares have soared 1,700 percent in …

KUALA LUMPUR — As most public and private entities have taken steps to improve the protection of their respective systems and remain vigilant at all times, the risk of cybersecurity threats in the country is still under control. Department chief Megat Muazzam Abdul Mutalib of the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) said the recent threat posed by the hacker …

Amidst the upcoming election and the things that have been organizing and preparing in the parliament for the past months, it’s surprising how in a majority ruling by the Constitutional Court over vote irregularities in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Democrat MP Thepthai Senpong was disqualified. Along with this, the court ruling declared that Mr. Thepthai’s MP status was automatically terminated after …