Malaysia: Najib’s Election Option
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : With the 1MDB and RM2.6 billion ‘political donation’ crises looming and anti-Najib forces led by former Prime Minister Mahathir aiming to remove him from office, there is one...
View ArticleEntrepreneurial Options for Youth Unemployment: Turning Malaysia’s Informal...
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Unemployment, particularly among graduates is rapidly increasing in Malaysia. According to a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Abdul Wahid Omar, graduates aged...
View ArticleCan the AEC be a success?
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : After almost two decades of discussion, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will be proclaimed on 31st December. The AEC is a potentially significant and competitive economic...
View ArticleWhy Malaysian universities are performing poorly
Mismanagement, waste, and corruption in public universities Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Malaysian public universities have dropped in the Times Higher Education University Rankings over the last few years....
View ArticleQuantum Islam: Towards a new worldview
Hunter & Rahman (nsnbc) : In concluding our essay on Tawhidic-Singularity as a new philosophy of Islam, we proposed that Muslims need to interpret the core teaching of One-ness from a kaleidoscopic...
View ArticleMalaysian Police to Increase Social Media Scrutiny This Year
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Amid concern by a number of Malaysian NGO’s Malaysia’s Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar announced on 12th January at a monthly staff assembly at police headquarters...
View ArticleIslamic State’s appeal in Malaysia
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : With the recent revelations that a youth was picked up and arrested on the way to a suicide bombing, hundreds of arrests of suspected terrorists have been made, and security is...
View ArticleMalaysia’s media propaganda war
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The Sarawak Report a couple of days ago released a damming report on the 1MDB scandal, murder of Kevin Morais, and stated that Malaysia’s premier Najib is planning to retreat...
View ArticleHow will Malaysian universities fare with massive budget cuts?
Will the departure of Professor Kamarudin Hussin as UNIMAP Vice Chancellor end the grandeur at Malaysian universities? Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : One of the key sectors in government to face budget cuts...
View ArticleThe shocking truth about MH370
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : In early March 2014, the world was captivated in a way never seen before by the news of a missing Malaysian Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, MH370. The last voice...
View ArticleIs it time for Air Asia to reinvent itself?
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Within the last week Air Asia has been in the news for a couple of reasons. First, Air Asia in India made a press release announcing it had achieved a 134% growth in passenger...
View ArticleThailand and the expatriate experience
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Over the last few decades Thailand has attracted expatriates to the country to work, stay long periods of time to explore the country, or retire. Photo courtesy of russavia...
View ArticleThe emergence of a new patrimonial art
Kovach Imre Bana & Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Metaphorically, new art trends are like volcanoes. They erupt along the tectonic fault lines of colliding and shifting cultures. No one can predict when...
View ArticleDMCA Abuse: How corporations are using US copyright law to harass and silence...
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was unanimously passed by the United States Senate on 12th October 1998, and signed into law by President Clinton on 28th October the...
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