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By now, you would have heard that Malaysian seafood exports could be slapped with a EU ban.
What’s gone wrong?
From reports, we hear that:
“… there are infrastructure and facilities such as fishing vessels, fish landing ports, and fish and prawn farms, which are lagging behind the standards set by EU,”…
Random checks conducted on nine seafood companies [...]

So a six-man Malaysian election observer team, led by the Malaysian Election Commission deputy chairman, have declared the Uzbekistan elections “fair” even though critics have described it as a “non-election”.
Remember, the Uzbekistan government is notorious for torturing dissidents and even putting them in boiling pots.
Check out this analysis:
Murray began receiving photographs and other evidence from [...]

In a parting shot, Thierry Rommel, the European ambassador who left his post on Tuesday, castigated the Malaysian government for its deplorable human rights record and the “discriminatory” New Economic Policy (NEP).
News reports quoted Rommel as saying the executive in Malaysia is “all-powerful and not accountable” while the judiciary remains beholden to the executive because [...]

When writing the piece below for IPS, I spoke to economist Charles Santiago, who told me that non-Malays are so tired of the discrimination under the NEP that many of them would support FTAs with the US and the EU. “But they have to keep in mind the larger implications of an FTA, which means [...]