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Dec 19, 2025
Finding Meaning in Education: The Journey of Entrepreneurship, Learning, and Creativity
The article reflects on entrepreneurship, education, and creativity as journeys rather than destinations. It talks about the “Myth of Arrival,” emphasizing meaning over material success. True learning lies in transformation and creativity emerges from inner experience as a means of self -expression. Success is redefined as continual growth and imaginative exploration.
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Dec 19, 2025
Finding Meaning in Education: The Journey of Entrepreneurship, Learning, and Creativity
The article reflects on entrepreneurship, education, and creativity as journeys rather than destinations. It talks about the “Myth of Arrival,” emphasizing meaning over material success. True learning lies in transformation and creativity emerges from inner experience as a means of self -expression. Success is redefined as continual growth and imaginative exploration.

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Dec 19, 2025
Repayable Grants: Models and Options Moving beyond handouts in industrial subsidies
Repayable grants offer a way to share risks between public and private while allowing the state to influence the direction of economic development.

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Dec 19, 2025
Repayable Grants: Models and Options Moving beyond handouts in industrial subsidies
Repayable grants offer a way to share risks between public and private while allowing the state to influence the direction of economic development.
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Dec 19, 2025
Di Sebalik Kepesatan dan Kebanjiran Pangsapuri Khidmat (Serviced Apartments)
Pembangunan pangsapuri khidmat atau serviced apartments terus rancak terutama di kawasan bandar seperti di Kuala Lumpur dan Lembah. Namun angka unit tidak terjual untuk jenis hartanah ini semakin membimbangkan. Realiti ini bukan sahaja menunjukkan ketidaksepadanan antara penawaran dan permintaan, tetapi juga persoalan perancangan tempatan untuk memenuhi keperluan masyrakat yang lebih besar. Artikel ini mengupas lanjut tetang aliran pasaran hartanah ini dan kebimbangan yang harus dititkberatkan dalam perancangan tempatan dan hartanah di Malaysia.
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OP-ED
Dec 19, 2025
Di Sebalik Kepesatan dan Kebanjiran Pangsapuri Khidmat (Serviced Apartments)
Pembangunan pangsapuri khidmat atau serviced apartments terus rancak terutama di kawasan bandar seperti di Kuala Lumpur dan Lembah. Namun angka unit tidak terjual untuk jenis hartanah ini semakin membimbangkan. Realiti ini bukan sahaja menunjukkan ketidaksepadanan antara penawaran dan permintaan, tetapi juga persoalan perancangan tempatan untuk memenuhi keperluan masyrakat yang lebih besar. Artikel ini mengupas lanjut tetang aliran pasaran hartanah ini dan kebimbangan yang harus dititkberatkan dalam perancangan tempatan dan hartanah di Malaysia.
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Dec 18, 2025
Increasing Intra-ASEAN Trade (Part 2): The Developmental Strategy
Part 2: Building a New Architecture Explores the financial fragility of a world without a US deficit, urging Malaysia to pivot toward regional industrial integration and financial self-insurance to survive.
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OP-ED
Dec 18, 2025
Increasing Intra-ASEAN Trade (Part 2): The Developmental Strategy
Part 2: Building a New Architecture Explores the financial fragility of a world without a US deficit, urging Malaysia to pivot toward regional industrial integration and financial self-insurance to survive.
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Dec 18, 2025
Increasing Intra-ASEAN Trade (Part 1): The Production Logic
Part 1: The Crisis of the Export-Led Model Analyzes how US tariffs and the ART dismantle Malaysia's export-led model, arguing that new constraints on sovereignty trap the nation behind a balance of payments wall.
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OP-ED
Dec 18, 2025
Increasing Intra-ASEAN Trade (Part 1): The Production Logic
Part 1: The Crisis of the Export-Led Model Analyzes how US tariffs and the ART dismantle Malaysia's export-led model, arguing that new constraints on sovereignty trap the nation behind a balance of payments wall.
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Digital Transformation
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Khairin Ilaina Mohamed Amin
Fiha Febiala
Govind Nirav Rao
C. Hari S. Shankar
Afifah Binti Ahmad
Elisabeth Chan Wen Yi
Nurrdinan Serena Amer Sharaffudin
Nurhanina Zaharin
Dr. Amirah 'Aisha Badrul Hisham
Nur Hannani Binti Abd Ghafar
Tehleel Nazir
Yee Suet Ee
Balqis Athirah Binti Azhar
Shukri Mohamed Khairi
Muhammad Syamin Bin Azman
Nurul Farhana Binti Abdul Shukor
Aidil Farhan Bin Jasrie Arman Sany
Amirah Syazwani Binti Ahmad Junaidi
Dinie Joshry Shaqeel
Ts Dr Amirah Aisha Badrul Hisham
Professor Joseph Eugene Stiglitz
K. Kuhaneetha Bai
Nadia Malyanah Azman
Siti Maisarah Zainurin
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Malini Elango
Aqeel Khaldun
Belinda Lew
Muhammad Khairulamri
Nicholas Khaw
Nur Zulaikha Atiqah Mohd Zahril
Dr Diana Abdul Wahab
Dr Umawathy Techanamurthy
Bryan Yeoh Quan Jin
Wan Manan Wan Muda
Alyssa Chua Lee-Yen
Goh Ming Jun
Mohan Mahadeva
Yap Chun Hao
Syafa Mustaffa
Ammar Hanania Hazli Izma
Dr Yunus Yasin
Dato’ Amirul Feisal Wan Zahir
Professor Emeritus Dr. Tham Siew Yean
Datuk Hisham Hamdan
Khazanah Research Institute
Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop
Tan Mei Yi
Emir Izat Abdul Rashid
Lim Han Hsuen
Ida Madieha Abdul Ghani Azmi
Musaddiq Adam Muhtar
Nur Adilah Hamid
Chakrin Utit
Bach Nguyen Luong
Zainab Ali Ahmad
Kusairi Mohd Noh
Rokiah Alavi
Ibrahim Kabiru Maji
Illisriyani Ismail
Intan Nadia Jalil
Abdulla Ibragimov
Siti Nooraznie Abdul Rahim
Fatimah Mohamed Arshad
Dr Mohd Yusof Saari
Pierre Sauvé
Tan Theng Theng
Charissa Lee Yi Zhen
Yap Gin Bee
Tan Kar Man
Junaidi Mansor
Alia Muhammad Radzi
Yeu-Mynn Yeung
Prof. Wan Abdul Manan Wan Muda
Tan Zhai Gen
Umi Maisarah Kamis
Shukri Mohamed Khairi
Wong Ee Kin
Dr. Wan Khatina Wan Nawawi
Maia Hollins-Kirk
Grace Loh Wan Chi
Keelea Shaye Linsuau Soh
Hui San Chiam
Goh Hao Yi
Daniel Filippi
Azlin Natasha Mohd Ghazali
Balqis Athirah Azhar
Dr. Sarena Che Omar
Aqeel Khaldun (University of St Andrews)
Aidil Iman Aidid
Nurul Farhana Abdul Shukor
Nur Thuraya Sazali
Yugendran Rajaendran
Putera Daniel Hakeem
Siti Aiysyah Tumin
Laventhen Sivashanmugam
Nithiyananthan Muthusamy
Nazihah Muhamad Noor
Isabelle Koh Yue Sze
Alyssa Farha Jasmin
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Dec 15, 2023
Is the Sugar Tax Really Necessary?


OP-ED
Dec 15, 2023
Is the Sugar Tax Really Necessary?
Taxation
Dr Teoh Ai Ni
Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023
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Discussion Papers
Dec 1, 2023
Putting Patients First: Principles for Future-Facing Electronic Health Records in Malaysia


OP-ED
Dec 1, 2023
Putting Patients First: Principles for Future-Facing Electronic Health Records in Malaysia
Health, Nutrition & Public Health
Ilyana Mukhriz
Dec 1, 2023
Dec 1, 2023
Discussion Papers


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Nov 24, 2023
The Malaysian Public Health System: Mental Health Resources


OP-ED
Nov 24, 2023
The Malaysian Public Health System: Mental Health Resources
Care & Domestic Work
Ilyana Mukhriz
Nov 24, 2023
Nov 24, 2023
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Nov 9, 2023
Visualising Societal Harms of Artificial Intelligence
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OP-ED
Nov 9, 2023
Visualising Societal Harms of Artificial Intelligence
AI, Automation & Work
Dr Jun-E Tan
Nov 9, 2023
Nov 9, 2023
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Oct 20, 2023
Social Insurance Pension: Saving for retirement collectively


OP-ED
Oct 20, 2023
Social Insurance Pension: Saving for retirement collectively
Social Protection
Puteri Marjan Megat Muzafar
Oct 20, 2023
Oct 20, 2023
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Oct 11, 2023
Exploring into the Viability of Malaysia’s Corn Industry


OP-ED
Oct 11, 2023
Exploring into the Viability of Malaysia’s Corn Industry
Society
Nik Syafiah Anis Nik Sharifulden
Oct 11, 2023
Oct 11, 2023
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Working Papers
Sep 27, 2023
The Returns to Malaysian Labour – Part II Wage gaps within and between subgroups from 2010 to 2019


OP-ED
Sep 27, 2023
The Returns to Malaysian Labour – Part II Wage gaps within and between subgroups from 2010 to 2019
Care & Domestic Work
Nithiyananthan Muthusamy
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023
Working Papers


Views
Sep 11, 2023
Curbing Overhang and Vacancy: The Case for a Vacancy Tax in Malaysia


OP-ED
Sep 11, 2023
Curbing Overhang and Vacancy: The Case for a Vacancy Tax in Malaysia
Housing Affordability & Rental Market
Theebalakshmi Kunasekaran
Sep 11, 2023
Sep 11, 2023
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Discussion Papers
Jul 31, 2023
Connecting the Last Mile: Solutions for Rural and Remote Communities


OP-ED
Jul 31, 2023
Connecting the Last Mile: Solutions for Rural and Remote Communities
Health, Nutrition & Public Health
Dr Rachel Gong
Jul 31, 2023
Jul 31, 2023
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