Abdullah Bugis

In Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps on its outskirts, one does not need a long explanation to understand the Rohingya tragedy. The road to the camps is...

At a scholarly gathering inside a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was not seeking a ceremonial photograph with religious figures. He was trying to explain a deeper idea about the state:...

When the Middle East shakes, the impact is rarely confined to battlefields, diplomatic statements, or oil markets. It travels quietly through shipping lanes, fuel bills, power stations, and factory costs across Asia....

The Strait of Hormuz has become more than a distant flashpoint in the Arabian Gulf. It is now a warning about energy security, electricity demand and the limits of relying too heavily on fossil fuels in a world shaped...

UN member states elected Malaysia to the United Nations Economic and Social Council with a notably strong vote, giving Kuala Lumpur a new three-year term on one of the UN’s main development bodies. The result was not...

Malaysia is not standing at the heart of the Strait of Hormuz crisis, but it can still feel its heat from a distance. For Kuala Lumpur, the waterway linking the Arabian Gulf to the Arabian Sea is not merely a line on a...

Malaysia does not want to enter Asia’s arms race in panic. But it also cannot afford to stand still at a time when the region’s security map is being redrawn from the South China Sea to the Strait of Malacca. Kuala...

The dispute between Malaysia and Norway over naval missiles is not just another stalled defence deal. It is a small but telling test of what trust means in an international system that speaks loudly about rules, yet...