Leslie Lopez
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Commentary: Anthony Loke resignation offer matters little to DAP’s fate (opens the original)
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The Democratic Action Party chief's decision to resign as Malaysia's transport minister in protest over Najib Razak’s conditional pardon is symptomatic of a deeper crisis for his party that won’t be fixed by a single gesture, writes CNA’s Leslie Lopez. KUALA LUMPUR: When the strongest party in a coalition – in terms of the number of parliamentary seats it holds – is the weakest in power, something has to give. In Malaysia, that moment may be arriving for the Democratic Action Party (DAP). On Sep
Commentary: Malaysia needs to restore foreign investors’ trust amid EV, data centre policy uncertainty (opens the original)
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Malaysia's ability to attract foreign direct investment remains robust but the quality of the foreign capital could be compromised if domestic politics trump commercial logic, writes CNA’s Leslie Lopez. KUALA LUMPUR: In 2024, Malaysia seemed to be the darling of Southeast Asian foreign investment. Tech giants - Google, Microsoft, Amazon, ByteDance - poured billions into data centres across Johor, transforming the sleepy Kulai corridor into one of Asia’s fastest-growing server farm hubs. Electric
Commentary: Has Malaysia exorcised the 1MDB ghost? The markets say yes but that’s only half the story (opens the original)
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A successful US$1.5 billion global sukuk is being read as proof that Malaysia has outrun the 1MDB scandal. But that is only half the story – and the less important half, writes CNA’s Leslie Lopez. KUALA LUMPUR: For more than a decade, the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) fiasco saddled the country with higher borrowing costs in international debt markets and scarred its reputation as an investment destination. Now, that cost premium appears to have been erased. For bond markets, 1MDB is now j
Commentary: With PH’s Negeri Sembilan defeat, PM Anwar is running out of states and time (opens the original)
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Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Harapan coalition losing in the latest state polls is not an isolated incident. It is the third and most devastating strike in a series that has transformed the political map of Malaysia, writes CNA’s Leslie Lopez. KUALA LUMPUR: There is a particular cruelty in watching your deputy prime minister celebrate your misery. On Saturday night (Aug 1), as the results from the Negeri Sembilan state assembly elections rolled in, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Ham
Snap Insight: Johor state polls shatter turnout myth and hand PM Anwar his first real reckoning (opens the original)
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The morning after Johor, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s coalition faces some grim electoral calculations, says CNA’s Leslie Lopez. KUALA LUMPUR: For years, conventional wisdom held that a higher turnout tends to hurt the incumbent, that it reflects the young, urban and middle-class voters who favour the opposition. The Johor state assembly election on Saturday (Jul 11) shattered that. The Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, led by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), delivered
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