Abdullah Bugis

Hamza Abdelkarim’s story is not a tale of a footballer made entirely in Malaysia, nor a simple migrant success story that jumped suddenly from obscurity to Barcelona. It is a quieter story about beginnings: how a city...

Malaysia’s new pledge to UNRWA is not large by the standards of major international donors. But to read it only through the size of the contribution would miss the point. The one-million-dollar commitment, spread over...

Malaysia is not speaking about the US dollar merely as a currency, but as a measure of power in a global economy where burdens and benefits are not shared equally. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s renewed call to reduce...

The debate over nuclear technology in Malaysia is no longer confined to the familiar question of power generation, nor to the public anxiety often associated with reactors. It is increasingly a debate about how science...

Malaysia is not watching the US-Iran negotiations in Switzerland as a distant diplomatic exercise. For Kuala Lumpur, the talks are tied directly to fuel prices, shipping routes, industrial costs and the stability of...

The Strait of Malacca, bordered by Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore and linked to Thailand through its northern approaches, is no longer merely a blue line on the map of Southeast Asia. In a time of global turmoil, it...

In the Russian city of Kazan, where the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Moscow gathered to mark 35 years of relations, Malaysia did not arrive with energy and trade files alone. It also carried a...

In Malaysia, Al-Hijrah is not treated as a passing religious greeting at the start of a new Islamic year. It is a formal national moment through which the state revisits the meaning of moral example in public life, and...