Terence Gomez

COMMENT | 12MP equity distribution: Rhetoric vs reality

COMMENT | 12MP equity distribution: Rhetoric vs reality

Not all Malaysians are accorded equal access and fair participation.

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COMMENT | A rebuttal to Takiyuddin’s ‘MPs qualified to head GLCs’

COMMENT | A rebuttal to Takiyuddin’s ‘MPs qualified to head GLCs’

Appointing MPs as GLC directors serves to undermine Muhyiddin’s pledges to fight corruption.

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COMMENT | How Muhyiddin consolidates power through GLC appointments

COMMENT | How Muhyiddin consolidates power through GLC appointments

GLCs have been used to aid the vested interests of power elites in three ways.

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After the change: Business as usual?

After the change: Business as usual?

COMMENT | Where much change was expected and could have been quickly instituted, little has changed.

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Can the NACP effectively curb power networks and corruption?

Can the NACP effectively curb power networks and corruption?

COMMENT | There is no oversight framework to deal with new forms of graft.

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Terence Gomez responds to Daim Zainuddin

Terence Gomez responds to Daim Zainuddin

COMMENT | ‘Daim argued that I had gone too far by contending that patronage may soon be king.’

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Patronage is king in new Malaysia?

Patronage is king in new Malaysia?

COMMENT | Harapan’s consistent message is that selectively targeted patronage will continue.

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The key party in GE14 is PAS

The key party in GE14 is PAS

COMMENT | PAS and Umno may form coalition at the state level.

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Politics and business - fundamental differences between Dr M and Najib

Politics and business - fundamental differences between Dr M and Najib

COMMENT | Najib governs through an unjust structure that Mahathir had created but…

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Is Malaysia descending into kleptocracy?

KINIBIZ | Why has serious corruption not hindered Malaysia’s economic development?

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Changing the way politics is funded

KINIBIZ Rahman Dahlan is right when he says opposition opposed reforms.

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1MDB - a chance to get it right

KINIBIZ Inadequate reforms have contributed to the 1MDB crisis.

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Where's 11MP's 'market-friendly affirmative action'?

KINIBIZ Najib’s first response on taking office as PM in 2009 was his GTP.

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Where are 11MP's equity distribution figures?

KINIBIZ The 11MP is far too important to be prepared in such a covert manner.

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Silencing Azmi curbs intellectual discourse

COMMENT The academic community is shocked by Azmi’s arrest for sedition.

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The politics and business of bank mergers

KINIBIZ The CIMB-RHB-MBSB merger further entwines business...

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Halim Saad's RM1.3bil suit and political business

COMMENT Halim Saad seems to have returned to the fore a trend in Malaysia that defines its political system - the practice of political business.

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Time for Najib-Anwar economic debate

KINIBIZ There is undoubtedly a need for this debate, focusing specifically on Malaysia's economic and social policies.

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Pressing agenda to deal with economic crisis

opinion The crisis requires prompt action by the government including the extent of its ownership of the banking sector and the provision of mechanisms to support SMEs.

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US financial crisis mirrors 1997 Malaysia

opinion By the mid-1990s, Bursa Malaysia was listed as the fourth largest bourse in Asia and the 15th largest in the world in terms of market capitalisation. But then the financial crisis struck.

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Umno still strong in Malay heartland

analysis Since politics in the Malay heartland has persistently been ethnically-based, and as the region remains one of Malaysia’s poorest, Umno will continue to insist on a targeted form of affirmative action.

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The public policy of business

The case of the Proton vendor system suggests that an attempt to anchor fledgling firms onto established enterprises would end up only weakening the prospects of the latter.

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Dont racialise debate on equity ownership

There is no need to racialise this discussion on equity ownership. Prof Shamsul Amri Baharuddin has probably not read the report by Asli's Centre for Policy Studies, which is why...

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No racial slant to UM lecturers victimisation

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