The Occupy movement has seen similar gatherings sprouting across South East Asia, including almost weekly Occupy Dataran gatherings – and now an event in Penang.
Floods have ruined 13 per cent of crop areas in Thailand, 12 per cent in Cambodia, 7.5 per cent in Laos and 6 percent in the Philippines, according to the FAO.
Half a dozen years ago, to mark Singapore’s 40th Independence Day in 2005, a Singapore website invited me to write an imaginary news-report about Malaysia exactly 20 years into the future i.e. 9 August 2025.