Year: 2026

More than half a century ago, Malaysia embarked on an ambitious housing mission to move the urban poor out of squatter settlements and into homes with access to basic necessities such as water, sanitation and proper infrastructure. The efforts would eventually become one of the country’s development success stories, helping to sharply reduce urban poverty while avoiding the sprawling slums...

The cost-of-living crisis is partly a result of decades of car-centric planning that make car ownership an expensive necessity while eroding public space and affordable alternatives. For most Malaysians, the gap between income and living costs is growing. And if you want to know where much of that missing money goes, look no further than the family car. For decades, Malaysian cities (especially...

“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.” This observation strikes at the heart of the paradox of human intelligence: we possess the unique capacity to innovate tools for our own destruction. Animals act to survive, not to destroy their own kind. A mouse builds a nest strictly for protection and breeding. It would never construct a tool designed to...