Timah Timah Tang Tu
What’s in a name? As the insanity of the past few couple of weeks over local whiskey brand Timah has shown, in the wrong hands that can be a very loaded question indeed. In case you’re lost worse than one navigating KL traffic without Waze, Timah is a proudly non-Scottish, Malaysia-made, award-winning, double-peated (which refers […]
Mitra and mystery of the ‘missing’ funds
RM9 million. To some *coughZahid *coughJibby* this isn’t a lot of dosh. But 9 million ringgit can go a long way to helping entire swathes of our Malaysian community, such as those in the lowest-income B40 households who are among the hardest hit economically during this blighted Covid-19 pandemic. Hence the question being asked by […]
Those legit, sneaky Pandora Papers
“Que será será“. No, no, he didn’t break out into song. But these were the words of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday when commenting on his (once again!) fast-disappearing prime minister dream yesterday. And according to the I-might-never-become-PM Anwar, part of the reason he might miss out on his forever quest to be Malaysia’s top […]
Million ringgit excuse of a lifetime
Remember all those various movement control orders over the past 2 years? That stressful, fearful time when we were ALL mandated to plonk our tushies at home like responsible citizens and do our part to keep the blasted Covid-19 coronavirus at bay? Now we’re quite sure that the WFH ruling also covered the wonderful women […]
Bursting our (travel) bubble
Langkawi — the parliamentary constituency of PM4/7/d̶i̶c̶t̶a̶t̶o̶r̶-̶f̶o̶r̶-̶l̶i̶f̶e̶ Dr Mahathir Mohamad and home of duty-free erm, chocolates — is open for business. To be honest, we don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. After close to 2 years of going in and out of lockdowns due to seesawing Covid-19 infection rates and scary new […]
Justice For Malaysian Mothers Means Justice For All
Hi folks Today, we’re doing things differently. There’ll be no long, sarky political commentary. No breakdown of any gomen shenanigans. And no takedown of any dumbassery of any kind. In ARTiculations today, we cover Thursday’s historic Kuala Lumpur High Court ruling in favour of Malaysian moms fighting that sexist, unfair citizenship law preventing them from […]
If A Tree Falls In The Forest…
Months after public hearings ended, nearly a year after indigenous communities thought they’d been seen, environment groups that they’d been heard, and long after politicians of every stripe overwhelmingly voted N-O, the Selangor state government decided to flip everybody the bird and sign off a chunk of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR) to […]
Recycle, That’s What We Do
“Have you ever tried to build something new out of things you found around your home? That’s what we try to do when we develop a new product.” Perhaps when assembling his cabinet, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob took inspiration from the zero waste mantra of one of the most renowned cabinetmakers in the biz […]
Lady Luck swipes right on Izzy
After over a year of listening to politicos plot and scheme, and wheel and deal, we’ve finally got a new prime minister. Only it’s far from the match made in heaven Malaysia was hoping for. But, with 114 MPs bending the knee to the PM-designate, the Agong’s made his choice. And, pending any last-minute m̶i̶r̶a̶c̶l̶e̶ […]
Putrajaya 2021: Welcome to the Games
Facing the TV cameras, and with his trusty ministerial manel gathered around him like the palace eunuchs of yore, Malaysia’s primo supremo Muhyiddin Mahiaddin Yassin admitted he’d lost majority Parliament support. But yet, instead of doing the expected (and proper!) thing and announcing his resignation (contrition – or, better still, some groveling – over his […]