Analysis

Today is May 3, 2025. This date commemorates the World Press Freedom Day. According to Unesco, the World Press Freedom Day would be focused on a theme that has hit hard on Malaysian media practitioners. The theme is – Reporting in the Brave New World – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Press Freedom…

Tricia Yeoh The reciprocal tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 2 – what he referred to as “Liberation Day” – hit Southeast Asian economies particularly hard. While they and others received a brief respite in the form of a 90-day pause, with a universal lowered reciprocal tariff of 10 per cent, tariffs…

BY: Yusmadi Yusoff The recent cyberattack on Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB), where hackers allegedly demanded a $10 million ransom, was not just an attack on a corporation—it was an attack on Malaysia’s national security. This incident is a stark reminder that in today’s world, wars are no longer fought solely with missiles and tanks…

The DAP polls and CEC make up yesterday confirmed one thing. The one person known as the deity, Tokong, often described as arrogant by his critics was sent off. Lim Guan Eng was relegated from top 10 in the previous CEC polls to the last 10 who made it into the CEC polls. Infusing new…

Khaldoon Abdulla On Saturday, March 15th, the United States (US) Navy and Air Force initiated a joint military operation targeting the Houthi group in Sanaa, Yemen. The assault, which focused on the group’s stronghold in the Jeraf district of Sanaa, resulted in the deaths of nine senior Houthi members, whose identities remain undisclosed, as well…

The future of European security depends on recognizing that cooperative security is the only sustainable approach to preventing conflict. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) provides a ready-made framework for de-escalation, but it has remained underutilized in favour of North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) threat-based security architecture. The result has been perpetual security…

The Perpetual Mirage of Alliances In the annals of global politics, alliances have oscillated between being indispensable instruments of security and precarious entanglements that often lead to unintended consequences. The recent Ukrainian peace conference in Saudi Arabia serves as a poignant reminder that diplomatic endeavors, regardless of their scale, seldom precipitate immediate transformations in the…

Recidivism, in clear and simple terms is the inclination of a criminal to re-offend. While tariffs are within the sovereign right of any country, the looseness by which the United States (US) is applying it on the likes of Canada and Mexico suggests a definite loss of economic discipline. The current international trading system averages…