ENVIRONMENT: PENANG, Malaysia, Oct 9 (IPS/IFEJ) - When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched ...
Although Malaysia appears to have weathered the worst of the global economic slowdown, indications of a recovery are tentative and clouded by a worrying trend of net foreign investment (FDI) outflows as foreign companies shy from new commitments and ...
WOMEN-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Malaysia, Aug 26 (IPS) - Yet another by-election is over in Malaysia. Tuesday night, a candidate from the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (People's Alliance or PR) defeated a candidate from the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) ...
LABOUR-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Mar 23 (IPS) - An official guideline for employers to retrench their foreign workers ahead of local employees has alarmed civil society society groups who fear that indebted migrant workers could be sent home with ...
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Mar 5 (IPS) - It has already been dubbed "Pokok Demokrasi" or Democracy Tree and is set to enter the annals of folklore in Ipoh, capital city of Perak state. In an open space beneath this 60-foot high rainforest ...
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: IPOH, Perak, Feb 10 (IPS) - During a tense press conference, in the midst of the current constitutional crisis in this state, peninsualar Malaysia's second largest, a reporter's MP3 recorder/handphone began ringing. The ...
MALAYSIA: KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 16 (IPS) - Following the political tsunami in March, which propelled a disparate opposition alliance to power in five of 13 Malaysian states, voters in the capital of oil-rich Terengganu state will determine ...
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Dec 17 (IPS) - Dozens of cyclists promoting workers' rights are on an extraordinary odyssey across the country, scheduled to climax with the handing over of memorandums in Parliament on Thursday. It has been a ...
ECONOMY-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Nov 26 (IPS) - The global economic slowdown is slowly creeping onto Malaysian shores leaving many worried about the impact it will have on workers. Although Malaysia's financial institutions and banks are in ...
RIGHTS-MALAYSIA: PENANG, Nov 12 (IPS) - Heavy handed police action against a gathering of Malaysians, near the capital of Kuala Lumpur, protesting against a draconian preventive detention law, suggests government nervousness at persistent ...
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