Geo Politics

Malaysia – Datuk Jimmy Wong, the former chairman of the Sabah DAP, has founded a new non-governmental organization (NGO) named Sabah Natural Justices For Sabahans, barely four days after resigning from the party. He stated that the NGO will “test the waters” before considering whether or not it could operate as a political party. According to him, he wants to …

Indonesia – Surprisingly, The Training, Culture, Research, and Technology Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim will proceed with arrangements to work on the nature of Indonesian HR, particularly in instruction, by upscaling programs, including School as Driving Force and the Freedom Campus. In view of this, it was shared that in future, it is unthinkable for them to give something backward. Not …

Philippines – The type of actual contact during face to face lobbying for the May 2022 surveys is an infringement of the Omnibus Election Code and political race wellbeing conventions, which could prompt the preclusion of an up-and-comer, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) cautioned yesterday. In a 21-page “new ordinary” rule in the lead of face to face crusading, the …

Malaysia – The state government of Penang is currently exploring green financing as a means of obtaining funds in order to implement the Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project. The state government could fulfill all of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards in the design of the project, according to Zairil Khir Johari, who is the head of the Penang …

Indonesia – The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) upholds the foundation of a guide for artificial intelligence (AI) improvement in ASEAN to work with the progression of the ASEAN people group in different areas, including the inventive business. In view of this, Head of BRIN Laksana Tri Handoko offered the comments here on Thursday while opening the ‘ASEAN Workshop …

Philippines – Focusing on common liberties cases and making equity more open to the underestimated and underserved are on the guide of equity change in the following four years among the Philippine equity and law implementation areas. The European Union, in organization with the Philippine Government, dispatched on Thursday the second period of its Justice Sector Reform Program: Government in …

Malaysia – Since the Covid-19 outbreak has swept the country last year, a total number of 1,003 employers in the state of Johor have closed their doors to the public. As a result, the Johor legislative assembly heard today that about 12,231 people had been laid off from their jobs. Datuk Mohd Izhar Ahmad, head of the State Investment, Entrepreneur …

Malaysia – After many federal MPs claim that they had been denied development financing for their constituencies, they called the Keluarga Malaysia idea as a hypocritical term. Non-Pakatan Harapan members of Parliament alleged they were treated unfairly because they refused to recognize the “memorandum of agreement” inked by the major opposition coalition and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s …

Malaysia – Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh, head of Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB), chastised state DAP leader Chong Chieng Jen from exalting himself and calling officials who defected parties as “frogs.” According to him, if Chong is so adamant, he should also criticize his own father, for defecting from the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) to join the DAP, a Malayan-based …

Philippines – Surprisingly, Michael Yang, the previous monetary counsel to President Rodrigo Duterte, has hurried to the Supreme Court to look for the invalidation of two Senate capture orders and the post notice request against him. Through his advice, legal counselor Raymond Fortun, Yang recorded a Petition for Certiorari and requested that the SC announce the capture orders and the …