WHAT has the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Selangor government achieved after two and a half years in power? If one relied on traditional media reports or Umno’s “Save Selangor” roadshow, the answer may well be, “Not very much”. But the reality is much more nuanced, as demonstrated in the book The Road to Reform: Pakatan Rakyat […]
Dr Mavis Puthucheary
The problem of political financing
By Koh Lay Chin(Ballot box pic by Miguel Sanchez / sxc.hu) KUALA LUMPUR, 1 Dec 2009: Malaysia has a problem with political financing but it still remains unclear what solutions might work to address the issue, a Transparency International (TI) Malaysia national conference concluded yesterday. Dr Edmund Terence Gomez, professor of political economy at Universiti Malaya, said current […]