Chan Chee Khoon

LETTER | Of Malaysian healthcare and its financing

LETTER | Of Malaysian healthcare and its financing

Why do we need private health insurance?
LETTER | Lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness

LETTER | Lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness

Stop penalising undocumented migrants and their employers during the pandemic.

What role will private insurers play in MySalam?

What role will private insurers play in MySalam?

LETTER | It is uncertain if the populist scheme will make healthcare cost-effective and sustainable.

No confusion over thorium

No confusion over thorium

LETTER | I’m baffled by the writer's incomprehension over a straightforward calculation.
What's the radioactivity level of Lynas' refinery wastes?

What's the radioactivity level of Lynas' refinery wastes?

LETTER | It should explain why it is taking the boundary case rather than in a decay chain including nine other radioactive progenies.
Rare earths - substandard precautionary practices for Malaysians?

Rare earths - substandard precautionary practices for Malaysians?

LETTER | We recall that the Asian Rare Earth (ARE) refinery at Bukit Merah (Ipoh) had very opaque long-term waste management plans if any.
Haze deaths rise as air pollution increases

Haze deaths rise as air pollution increases

Kuantan folk shouldn't be an experiment for Lynas

Kuantan folk shouldn't be an experiment for Lynas

Lynas: Scientific doubts and popular will

Lynas: Scientific doubts and popular will

Lynas: Making Kuantan residents the lab rats

Lynas: Making Kuantan residents the lab rats

Lynas: Public has right to be concerned

Lynas: Public has right to be concerned

Lynas: Internal irradiation highly dangerous

Lynas: Internal irradiation highly dangerous

Rethinking federalism in M'sia

Rethinking federalism in M'sia

Malaysia as a polity exhibits a very highly centralised federal structure which in practice makes it more like a unitary state
IJN: Safeguarding a price bulwark

IJN: Safeguarding a price bulwark

Subservience masquerading as diplomacy

Subservience masquerading as diplomacy

Yes, minister: Between duty and conscience

Yes, minister: Between duty and conscience

The prime minister-in-waiting unclothed

The prime minister-in-waiting unclothed

In an earlier post, I stated that it was astonishing how a simple and trivial detail like Anwar's state of dress during his medical examination while in custody could persist as a matter of ambiguity in the public record, amidst the media spin and the (seemingly) contradictory statements of the parties directly concerned.
It's not about DNA, it's about credibility

It's not about DNA, it's about credibility

Changing but still remaining the same

Changing but still remaining the same

Malaysia, Mussolini and change

Malaysia, Mussolini and change

Are we experiencing a resurgent anti-status quo sentiment in Malaysia? Some incumbent Barisan Nasional politicians are clearly rattled.

Furthering the common good

Furthering the common good

A win-win formula must be found for equitable access to medicines as the world grapples with pandemics in particular.
Haze causes not just discomfort, it kills

Haze causes not just discomfort, it kills

In 2002, Narayan Sastry a Princeton-trained demographer published a paper entitled 'Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in SE Asia'...
Privatising the World Bank

Privatising the World Bank

As an agent of global social reproduction, the World Bank itself is also subject to forces pushing for privatisation.