Contami-Nation
Parthiban Muniandy
The impurity of blended cultures is what makes Malaysian food — and society — unique.
Category: Malaysia
Walking the talk
Marina Mahathir
Malaysia’s opposition delivered a startling victory in May’s elections by going house-to-house.
The new bogeyman
Marina Tan
Perversely, vanquishing an old enemy in Malaysia could make it harder to create art.
Coming home
Mohan Ambikaipaker
Returning to Malaysia on the eve of an historic election
Mourning in victory
Preeta Samarasan
For 60 years, racial politics demarcated Malaysian society
Enough
Carl Vadivella Belle
Lim Teck Ghee saw how Malaysia’s political status quo would end
This Time
Sreehevi Iyer
Fiction: On the eve of Malaysia’s general election, Mahathir visits Anwar in hospital.
Malaysia’s morning breaks
Pauline Fan
How would opposition firebrand Fan Yew Teng have greeted Malaysia’s political earthquake?
The people tsunami
Mohd Izzuddin Ramli
Malaysians have discovered that through their votes they can shape their country’s future.
Unbowed
Gareth Richards
Rare glimpses into Japan’s invasion and occupation of Singapore
Marginalia
Theophilus Kwek
A poem by Theophilus Kwek
From the shadows
Marc de Faoite
Anger, love and alienation permeate K.S. Maniam’s short stories
A nation’s song
Beth Yahp
Bringing forgotten Malayan music back to vibrant life
Losing liberal Malaysia
Wu Ming
Conservative Islam, mixed with online activism, threatens liberal thinking in multicultural Malaysia
Speaking truth to power
Ooi Kee Beng
Lim Teck Ghee has never shied away from the political arena.
Finding holiness
Fahmi Mustaffa
In search of the holy in Malaysia’s many faiths and cultures.
Rock ’n’ roll damnation
Marco Ferrarese
Southeast Asian heavy metal rockers unmasked.
Reformasi, remembered
Kean Wong
Before the rise of conservative Islam in Malaysia, there was reformasi