Wiki Impact

Every year on 9 August, the world marks the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, recognising the diverse cultures and histories of indigenous communities everywhere. Malaysia is home to one of Southeast Asia’s richest indigenous landscapes.  According to the 2020 census, indigenous peoples made up about 11% of the country’s 32.

For more than three decades, 69-year-old Lim Chong Jin, better known as Jin Kor, has been running one of Penang’s most renowned char kuey tiao stalls alongside his wife and son.  Recognised by the MICHELIN Bib Gourmand, Lim recalls growing up in a low-income family, helping around in food-related businesses before a char kuey teow […]

Malaysia doesn’t have a shortage of talented leaders. That’s the starting point for a new national leadership programme launched by YTL Foundation this year. What the country lacks, according to the people behind it, is enough leaders who can step outside their own institutions and work with people from entirely different worlds, government, b

In the first three months of 2026 alone, 18 babies were rescued after being abandoned by their mothers across Malaysia. Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Lim Hui Ying raised the figures in parliament: Selangor recorded the highest number of cases at 10, followed by Sabah and Penang with two each, and Johor, Negeri […]

16,238. That’s how many reports of child sexual abuse material involving Malaysian children were logged in 2024 alone. Another 12,656 came in during just the first six months of 2025[1]. Behind those numbers is a legal problem Malaysia has just moved to fix. On 30 June 2026, the Dewan Rakyat passed an amendment to Section […]

For millions of refugees across the world, home is no longer a place they can return to. But the things that make a place feel like home – the smell of familiar food, the aroma of brewed coffee, the warmth of shared cultural tradition – these are threads back to their identity and bring back […]

I feel like we’re in February 2020. The virus is just about to hit. We’re hearing all this news. Everything’s going on normally. But the next month, we are in a major crisis. That was the warning from Nurhisham Hussein, Senior Director of Economy and Finance at the Prime Minister’s Office, during a recent interview […]

Kuala Lumpur is Malaysia’s capital, home to nearly two million residents and the seat of Parliament. It is a city of glass towers and crowded neighbourhoods, hawker centres and flash-flood alerts, cranes that never seem to leave the skyline. Yet unlike many major cities around the world, the people who live here do not elect […]