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Malaysia’s Growth Is Changing Shape. Q1 2026 Shows What Now Carries It

GDP is usually read as a scorecard. A single number, up or down, good quarter or bad. But a scorecard only tells you whether you won. It does not tell you how. For that, GDP

Nuclear Energy: Is Safety Shaping Malaysia’s Pathway?

Infographic 1: Planning Momentum vs Institutional Readiness Safety is almost always the first word invoked when nuclear energy enters Malaysia’s public conversation. In official statements, policy discussions and public debate, nuclear is often framed alongside safety,

Malaysia’s Fiscal Bargain: From Discipline to Delivery

Malaysia’s budget debate often begins with one question: how much is being spent? But the more important question is harder: whether today’s budget still reflects where the economy is being built, where development needs remain

Why Net Zero Cannot Wait: Malaysia’s Carbon Clock Is Already Running

Malaysia has treated net zero as a 2050 problem for long enough that it has quietly become a 2026 problem. The horizon did not move. We simply ran out of distance. That habit is now

Malaysia Has a Plan. Now Comes the Hard Part : The Six Levers of Malaysia’s Energy Transition

Twenty-four years sounds like a long time. It is not. By 2050, the child born this Raya will be sitting where we are sitting now, He will be making decisions, paying taxes, raising children of

RM1.5 Trillion and a Month of Shock: What Malaysia Can Still Do Now.

When the Strait of Hormuz tightened in March 2026, Malaysia did not suffer a blackout. There were no rationing queues and no sudden industrial shutdowns. What happened was quieter, but in some ways more revealing.

When the Price of a Bag of Fertiliser Becomes a National Security Question.

Why Malaysia’s food-security risk begins upstream, long before the supermarket shelf Malaysia’s food-security risk does not begin at the supermarket shelf. It begins much earlier, at the point where farmers decide whether they can still

Growing in numbers, ageing in silence

DEMOGRAPHICS | POPULATION | MALAYSIA Malaysia is still growing. But the numbers that matter are not just about size. They are about timing. And that timing is shifting. Malaysia is not facing a population collapse.

Malaysia’s Fertility Rate Is Falling: Is Family Life Still Within Reach?

The global Total Fertility Rate has fallen by nearly half since the 1960s, from above 5 births per woman to approximately 2.3 today. In some advanced economies, it has dropped below 1.5. Our grandmothers raised