Imagine Malaysia Without Income Tax Part 1: Who Pays, and Who Gains?
Could Malaysia cut income tax and bring back GST in place of SST? We test the scenario on three households to see who pays and who gains. Part 2 next.
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From RM15 Billion to RM40 Billion: Can Malaysia Keep Fuel Protection Affordable?
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.
Longer Lives Are Malaysia’s Next Opportunity. Are We Ready To Use Them?
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,
When the Medical Card Becomes Unaffordable, Can Malaysia Still Get You Treated?
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 Workers Are Moving Faster on AI. Is Leadership Keeping Up?
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.
Beyond Hospitals: Home Care or Assisted Living for Malaysia’s Ageing Population?
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
A Hospital Is Not Capacity Until It Is Staffed
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
Can all Planters commit to a Carbon-Negative, Premium-Value Reinvention of Palm Oil by 2040?
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
Chandler Ranks Malaysia 40th. Why Good Government Still Feels Uneven
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
Has Malaysia Built Data Centres or Someone Else’s Profits?
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
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