Budget 2027 shows that Malaysia’s fiscal reforms are holding under an energy shock. Keeping fuel protection credible will need recurring non-oil revenue, support that follows real need, and fewer unavoidable fuel costs in daily life.
Ageing is not the problem Malaysia is getting older. By 2050, about one in five Malaysians will be 60 or older. This is usually told as a story of rising costs: more patients, more pensions,
Rising premiums are pushing Malaysian households into hard choices. But the real question is not only whether they can keep paying for private cover. It is whether a public system, already stretched before this crisis began, can treat them if private cover falls out of reach.
Malaysian knowledge workers are developing advanced AI capabilities faster than many organisations are adapting. That is exposing a harder readiness test: whether firms can align leadership and convert individual gains into measurable organisational capability.
The hospital says Mak is well enough to be discharged. She is not, however, well enough to bathe safely, remember every medicine, or stay alone while her children work. The family now faces two apparent
As Sarawak develops health facilities for an ageing population, its workforce gap will determine how much care those facilities can actually deliver to patients. In 2025, Malaysia’s Ministry of Health offered permanent placements in Sarawak
Why Malaysia’s Oil Palm Future Depends on Technology, Credibility and Scale For much of the past two decades, palm oil has occupied an uncomfortable place in the public imagination, closely associated with deforestation, peatland
A snapshot of Malaysia’s performance across the seven pillars and 35 indicators of the 2026 Chandler Good Government Index, where it ranks 40th out of 133 governments. This week’s Asia-Pacific release on the 2026 Chandler
Malaysia is attracting and building data-centre capacity rapidly, but it has yet to show that the productive domestic layer needed to convert that infrastructure into recurring Malaysian business value, skilled work and exportable digital services
