This article first appeared on the Sun daily on 19 August 2019.
PETALING JAYA: Article 153 of the Federal Constitution, which clearly states the special position of the Malays and bumiputra in Sabah and Sarawak, has to be clearly defined due to the emotional attachment by the Malays and bumiputra to this clause.
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This article first appeared on New Straits Times on 19 August 2019.
PETALING JAYA: Education, entrepreneurship and employment (3Es) are very important in defining factors for the success of our nation.
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JCI-JSC-WP-2019-02, July 2019.
In this paper, we examine the impact of ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) on Australian trade and in particular on imports from ASEAN member countries to Australia. This paper explicitly examines the FTA utilisation (AANZFTA) by ASEAN countries (10 ASEAN countries) at 6 digit-trade classification from 2012-2016 using Australian customs data. We implement the Hayakawa and Shiino (2018) model of FTA utilisation based on preferential tariff margin. The study accounts for both multilateral and bilateral FTAs across the countries in study. The result indicate that the preferential margin is positive indicating positive impact on FTA utilisation. However, the results also indicate that the utilisation rates of AANZFTA are low across the ASEAN countries as compared to bilateral FTAs in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. We also found exporting effects in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam. The learning-effects of using FTAs are also strong in our study. We also found evidence of co-sharing rule in the FTA tends to increase the utilisation of FTAs.
Key words: preferential tariffs – trade liberalisation – preference erosion
JEL classification: F13, F15, F53
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This article first appeared on Free Malaysia Today on 10 June 2019.
SUBANG: Malaysia has been playing an astute balancing game in the big power rivalry between the United States and China, a political scientist said today.
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This article first appeared in The Star Online on 2 June 2019.
WHEN Malaysians fight about race, what are we really fighting about? What are the actual undercurrents that are causing these fights? On a superficial level, a few answers come to mind.
This article first appeared in The Star Online on 2 June 2019.
BASED on the GE14 result, there are 77 MP seats in Peninsular Malaysia and 13 MP seats in Sabah and Sarawak that did not return a majority winner.
This article first appeared in The Star Online on 1 June 2019.
“I ALWAYS feel that I have achieved very little. My conclusion is that when you’re a true Malaysian, you are a very lonely person.” This famous quote by Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim published in The Straits Times on Tuesday, Feb 21, 2006, resonates profoundly.
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This article first appeared in Astro Awani on 29 May 2019.
KUALA LUMPUR: Ketika seluruh negara mengejar transformasi ke arah pemodenan, kesihatan golongan kanak-kanak pula diabaikan.
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This article first appeared in Malaysiakini on 29 May 2019.
The way to convince Umno and PAS to support changing the country’s electoral system is to convince them there is currently no party is in a stable political position, said Sunway University political scientist Wong Chin Huat.
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