It is inappropriate for Johor Regent Tunku Ismail Ibrahim to suggest a separation of powers between the state and the federation, said former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Reflecting on the ...

However, lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdulla disagreed, pointing out that all Malayan states, including Johor, were parties to the Federation of Malaya Agreement 1948 and covered under the Federation of ...

In Brief The Irish poet WB Yeats was not thinking about Southeast Asia when he wrote ‘things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’, but his words may accurately describe the situation in Malaysia. The ...