Like a Child With Two Parents – New Naratif
Amrita Malhi traces the historical roots of the 3Rs of Malaysian politics to 19th-century colonial contests between Siam and Britain.
When the wrong bat met the wrong pig — Emily Ding — Freelance Writer, Journalist, Editor and Photographer — Kuala Lumpur and Berlin
Podcast | The Politics of Ethnicity in the Malay World
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Gedebe: Being a Man in Kelantan - Penang Monthly
ALMOST EVERYONE IN the small town of Kota Bharu knew who Mat Zin Korea was in the 1960s and 70s. He was born and bred in Kampung Padang Bemban, a small farming...
Primary Sources: History of the Malay World – Frog in a Well
Katak di bawah tempurung / Seperti katak dalam tempurung – Frog under the coconut shell. Let’s try to get out from under our shell.This page is a list of open access resources and prima…
Fact-check: Most MPs in new govt are bumiputera Muslim
Some claim it's a Chinese-dominated govt, but numbers show otherwise.
Even so, the new government is still not a “Chinese-dominated” government because there are 105 non-Chinese MPs, more than double the number of Chinese MPs.
Negotiating Ideations: The Role of State-Led Identity-Making in the Progress of Women's Rights in Malaysia by Anis Farid, Isabel Chung, Sharifah Shazana Agha, Ren-Chung Yu :: SSRN
This article traces the progress of women’s rights in Malaysia by reference to law reforms between 2017 and 2022, from the position of a civil society organisation (CSO) advocating for those reforms and using a gender-focused lens.
However, upon closer inspection, we argue that the law reforms achieved were ones the state views as congruous with its wider identity-making project for citizens. Consequently, issues at odds with entrenched values imposed on citizens by dominant state narratives become difficult to reconcile, resulting in roadblocks and stalled progress.
fleur-flour-flah and ‘good’ english – More of A Comment
it’s as much a historical artifact as the rhotic American accents probably resemble older forms of British accents, or the American habit to NOT pronounce the h in ‘herb’ unlike modern British (and that was, again, another French thing). It’s not wrong, and if monolinguals tell us otherwise, then they’re just being jerks and ignorant of their own history.