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Citrawarna Put 3,500 Performers on Dataran Merdeka. Here Is What It Was Actually For
Three days, 13 states, 700 international visitors and 70 food stalls. Visit Malaysia 2026 has a number it needs to hit.
Oct 6
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Fusionex: Metrojaya Went Looking for a Second Life Online. The Hard Part Is Keeping the Store Cohesive
MUI Group’s retail icon partnered with Fusionex to build a digital marketplace. Here is why digitising a department store is harder than it looks.
Oct 2
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September 2026
An NGO in Johor Baru Is Trying to Give the City Back Its Evenings
Puppet theatre on Jalan Dato Onn drew about 200 people. A 58-year-old lecturer thinks that's the whole point.
Sep 30
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Anthony Loke Said the Quiet Part About Train Fares
Public transport can't be privately financed while fares are regulated. That single sentence explains thirty years of Malaysian transport policy.
Sep 28
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42 Companies Just Won the Right to Sell Malaysia Electricity Made From Rubbish
331 megawatts of biogas, biomass and small hydro. RM4.3bil in investment. And roughly 7,738 jobs that won't be in Kuala Lumpur.
Sep 25
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Fusionex: Malaysia Put SMEs Online for Export. The Hard Part Was Never the Website
The MATRADE Digital Trade Platform promised to bridge the gap between local production and global demand. The real test is turning digital access into…
Sep 22
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Brunei, Sabah and Sarawak Just Agreed to Act Like One Region
A highway, a power line, and a single checkpoint. The 27th Annual Leaders' Consultation was more interesting than its name.
Sep 18
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A Tiger Called Yong Choh Goes Back to the Forest Next Month
Rescued in July from Ulu Kinta. Released in early September. And a breeding programme that had a record year nobody reported.
Sep 15
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Malaysia Has Eight UNESCO Cultural Listings Since 2014. Here Is the Full List, Because Nobody Prints It
The National Culture and Arts Department says eight. It doesn't say which eight. So we went and got them.
Sep 11
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The People Shaping Malaysia’s AI Future
As Malaysia moves toward its 2030 AI ambition, influence is increasingly being defined by policy, infrastructure, homegrown technology, deployment…
Sep 10
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Malaysia Wants Fewer Foreign Workers by 2030. Nobody Has Costed the Machines
The target is 10%. The automation bill for a single small manufacturer starts around RM500,000. Here's the gap nobody's closing.
Sep 9
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Malaysians Under 30 Are Now a Third of the Workforce. In 2013 They Were More Than That
Young workers are shrinking as a share of the labour force. The reason isn't that they're lazy. It's that the jobs above them never appeared.
Sep 7
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