The Governance Vacuum Beneath the Temple
How decades of land mismanagement, weak regularisation frameworks, and political avoidance created Malaysia’s recurring house-of-worship crisis.
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Newsletter
A collection of 130 issues
Holy Structures, Fragile Egos and Politics at Play (again)
Why religious buildings trigger dominance instincts, historical wounds, and racial fear in a nation still negotiating who truly belongs.
Korea’s Beauty Infrastructure
Advertising law, hiring practices, and medical tourism policy and what reform would actually require
Korea's Fake Economy
How government policy, corporate incentives, and commercial alignment built a multi-billion-dollar aesthetic industry
Korea’s Beauty Machine
Collective trauma, inherited shame, and the psychology of a culture that cannot afford imperfection
When Malays ru(i)n GLCs.
PETRONAS, Power, and the Myth That Malays Can’t Run Big Companies
Is Grab the company, racist?
Grab Malaysia and the Leadership Ladder No One Wants to Explain
MARA: From Student Aid to Patronage Machine
The Melbourne Property Case, Re-examined
The Pattern We Refuse to Name
Authority. Behaviour. Enablers. Consequences.
Of Pious Monsters with stupid beards
Dai Syed, Moral Authority, and the Lie We Keep Protecting