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Chandran Nair

Reporter · MY

Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
Latest publication
Sep 28, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Malaysiakini
Top 500K sites
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Sep 2, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Chandran Nair

    COMMENT | 'I beg your pardon': Malaysia's RM50m get-out-of-jail pass | Malaysiakini (opens the original)

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    COMMENT | A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak to the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM) about my latest book, “Understanding China: Governance, Socio-Economics, Global Influence”. In explaining China’s ascendancy in the last decade, I said that in addition to investments in infrastructure, technology and a focus on communitarian development, a key factor was the hard-nosed fight against corruption, which included the state empowering the public to report on corrupt officials ev

  2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Chandran Nair

    COMMENT | KL's devastation creep: Who profits from the abuse of our city? | Malaysiakini (opens the original)

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    COMMENT | Part One of this series set out the civic failures that have led to Kuala Lumpur’s rising temperatures and falling standards: no science, no press, and no public voice. The natural response for many of Kuala Lumpur’s inhabitants is passivity and resignation, especially when all the people in positions of authority who are responsible for the rising heat, the mismanaged flood control, the exploding pipeline, the sold-off green lungs have given a speech about making KL a world-class city

  3. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Chandran Nair

    COMMENT | Built for slow burn: Kuala Lumpur's unbreakable heat | Malaysiakini (opens the original)

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    COMMENT | The Star recently published a piece asking whether Kuala Lumpur sits on one of the world's most intense urban heat islands. The answer, confirmed by peer-reviewed science and satellite data, was yes - and increasingly so. The data is astounding on its own. Yet that an article like that was even published is a symptom of a deeper problem: in a city governed seriously, skyrocketing urban heat would not be a "true or false" question requiring a newspaper to fact-check foreign studies. Gov

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