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Norman Goh
Norman Goh is an independent journalist based in Kuala Lumpur, and he produces the weekly political podcast "Bicara Minggu Ini". He follows Malaysian politics and current affairs, focusing on East Malaysian socio-political issues.
A group last week won a landmark legal fight to allow women to pass on their nationality to their kids. But the battle is not over, after government officials appealed against the verdict.
Umno’s Ismail Sabri Yaakob is the front runner, but analysts say it is too soon to discount Anwar Ibrahim – while Mahathir Mohamad may have a role to play.
The country’s political stand-off came to a head on Friday after anti-government lawmakers dismissed the prime minister’s last-ditch unity proposal.
The embattled leader has offered major concessions to the opposition including Anwar Ibrahim, with observers warning that such deals will imperil Malaysia’s fragile democratic system.
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The Pakatan Harapan alliance and other groups opposing Muhyiddin have slammed his unity proposal as a form of ‘corruption’ and urged the prime minister to resign immediately.
Police opened a probe into Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam for ‘breaching the peace’ with TikTok video exposing teacher’s remarks in class.
The organisers estimated that up to 8,000 medical professionals took part in the industrial action, returning to their work stations afterwards.
Thousands of medics have planned to take part in an industrial action on Monday to express their discontent with a contract system they say is unfair.
A clampdown on ‘illegal’ durian farmers in Pahang state shows the fraught land politics at play in the country’s increasingly lucrative Musang King industry, observers say.
As one economist has put it: “We’re going to become a very unequal society.”
The #benderaputih campaign is the clearest sign yet of the economic despair that hundreds of thousands of Malaysia’s lower income families now live under, community organisers say.
Online disinformation has left many elderly too afraid to get jabbed and is fuelling ‘vaccine choosiness’, with many preferring China’s Sinovac over Pfizer.
The country’s sultans are set to convene on Wednesday in a special meeting, with analysts believing they are likely to state a preference for parliament to be reconvened
Political heavyweight Nurul Izzah Anwar’s withdrawal of support for the BiodiverCity scheme has given activists hope that it is not the fait accompli they feared.
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is under pressure not just from the country’s opposition, but also from forces within his own party such as Najib.
Ain Husniza called out her teacher after he cracked a rape joke, sparking a national conversation on sexism in Malaysia.
Abdul Hamid Bador accused Malaysia’s home minister of using the police force’s secretive Special Branch for ‘political purposes’.
Experts say this allays public concerns over side-effects like blood clots, but others say this could damage trust in vaccines and undermine global vaccination efforts.
Internal conflicts among Southeast Asian countries that are party to the dispute weaken the negotiations with Beijing, analysts say.
AirAsia wants to become ‘more than an airline’, eyeing plans for fresh grocery air taxis to drone delivery services.
Influential youth chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki has dismissed talk of fission, though there is a faction still loyal to the prime minister.
The action was called ‘puzzling’, and one that could ‘seriously damage efforts to improve ties between the US and the North’.
Science minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who heads the programme, took the Sinovac vaccine live on air to allay concerns about its efficacy and safety.
