Free Speech | Ideas

Paternalism is bad for the country

Opinion Political Economy and Governance By admin|March 1, 2016 |0

by Wan Saiful Wan Jan. First published in The Star 1 March 2016 I was in Johor Bahru last Thursday, to speak at the “Great Debate” held at UTM Skudai. The topic was “Does an English medium education increase competitiveness or dilute identity?” T [...]

IDEAS Press statement: On Marxism classes: Malaysians must reject paternalistic intervention

News Press Statements By admin|February 29, 2016 |0

PRESS STATEMENT For immediate release On Marxism classes: Malaysians must reject paternalistic intervention Kuala Lumpur, 29 February 2016 – “I was shocked to hear that the police has forced the cancellation of a course on Marxism scheduled [...]

Why media freedom matters

Opinion Political Economy and Governance By admin|July 29, 2015 |0

by Tricia Yeoh. First published in The Sun 29 July 2015 THE three-month suspension of The Edge Financial Daily and The Edge Weekly newspapers by the Home Ministry is a chilling reminder of a government that silences any form of critical questionin [...]

Defending national principles

Opinion Other By admin|January 19, 2015 |0

By Tunku Abidin Muhriz. First published in The Malay Mail on 16 JANUARY 2015. SINCE the new year thousands of people have died in terrorist acts of violence around the world. However, incidents in and around Paris that resulted in th [...]

Breaking Silence

Opinion Other By admin|December 11, 2014 |0

By Tricia Yeoh. First published in The Sun on 11 December 2014. Abolishing the Sedition Act would not quite result in madness and mayhem, as some would have us believe, but in the likes [...]