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“Independence is indeed a milestone, but it is only the threshold to high endeavour.” Those words belong to Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, and they sit at the heart of the Merdeka Award’s purpose. His call did not end with independence itself; he asked Malaysians to keep working “with hand and […]

How do you build a living monument? Six decades ago, Malaysia set out to honour its founding father, Y.T.M. Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra al-Haj. Rather than stone statues or silent monuments, the nation chose a living legacy built on the ultimate foundation: education. Since its establishment in 1966, Yayasan Tunku Abdul Rahman (YTAR) has supporte

At 15, Dr Aini Ideris thought one Biology paper had cost her the future she wanted. She was a Form Three student at Sekolah Tun Fatimah when an examination determined whether students would enter the Science or Arts stream. Young Aini misunderstood one Biology question, did badly on the paper and was placed in Arts. […]

For much of Datuk Nicol Ann David’s life, there was always another match waiting. Another opponent. Another championship. Another chance to carry Malaysia’s flag onto a squash court somewhere in the world. For 108 consecutive months between 2006 and 2015, Nicol stood at the very top of her sport as World No. 1. By the […]

For 60 years, Yayasan Tunku Abdul Rahman (YTAR), one of Malaysia’s longest-standing national education foundations, has been helping Malaysians access higher education and develop into leaders for this nation.  On 13 August 2026, YTAR marked that milestone at Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad, a landmark steeped in the nation’s history. It was on th

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