Kuala Lumpur’s MRT (the 51 kilometre-long Sungai Buloh-Kajang line) is a magnificent piece of engineering. Its dazzling, above-ground stations loom over the landscape like spaceships. Costing ...
BEFORE he was Phra Visuddho, he was Pisut Aungsupalee. In Thai “Pisut” means “purity”. When his master, Phra Upaseno ordained him as a monk, he took the Pali equivalent, “Visuddho”.
ASEAN = flashy, high-level meetings in 5-star hotels. ASEAN = rhetoric and empty communiques. ASEAN = elites carving up the spoils for themselves. My readers know that I'm totally opposed to all ...
SERI Kembangan, Selangor is twenty-two kilometres to the south of Kuala Lumpur and just twenty minutes away from Putrajaya, Malaysia's gaudy administrative centre. Sixty years ago, this would have ...
IS CHINA - under President Xi Jinping - Southeast Asia’s new hegemon? Pundits like to compare President Xi to an emperor. Such talk has increased post the 19th National Congress of the Communist ...
ON November 11, leaders from 21 nations - including US President Donald Trump (who fancies himself as a builder), Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping - will descend ...
HE was painstaking. Respectful. Patient. He sat alongside his interview subjects with his notebook open, asking questions, probing slowly but steadily, exploring, in minute detail, the personal ...
Venezuelan, former journalist, 40, lived in Malaysia since 8 years. Second Secretary at the Venezuelan embassy in Kuala Lumpur, loves her cats, Misha and Brutus, to bits. Favourite local food is ...
THE news media isn’t just in secular decline, it’s in ICU. Malaysia is no exception to this global trend. Nearly two weeks ago, the storied Malay language daily (and a resolute supporter of ...
JHENNIS Mintjelungan is a thirty-year-old Minahasan working as a hotel receptionist in Sorong, the gateway to the Raja Ampat islands - dubbed the "world's most beautiful" by Conde Nast Traveller.
THE unthinkable happened at this year’s Venice Biennale: the Southeast Asians were upside down. The Indonesians were drab, the Filipinos uninspiring, the Thai's merely alright and the Singaporeans!