Archive - The Malaysianist

Brainjam #11: The files I didn’t pick

What I left behind and what it revealed in hindsight.

23 hrs ago

Power moves: Zafrul, Johor, and GLC charades

Cabinet shuffles, palace economics, and why board oversight is theatre.

Dec 1

November 2025

A typical November update

Counting down the end of 2025.

Nov 30

KWAP CEO succession now up for grabs

What looked like a done deal is wide open.

Nov 29

Bank Pembangunan scales back private bets: sources

A pivot… after expensive misadventures.

Nov 26

The fall of a crony capitalist

And how a toll-road empire comes undone.

Nov 26

One eye to rule them all

Inside Anwar’s quest to consolidate power.

Nov 23

Southeast #9: The last cukong standing

US$1.7 billion and the end of a patron-politician pact.

Nov 22

Malaysia has a BO problem

All about that musky, elite deodorant.

Nov 19

Southeast #8: Corporate coup in Jakarta

And a rude awakening in Singapore.

Nov 17

Chasing liquidity and limelight

What lies beyond that door?

Nov 15

Brainjam #10: Inside Khazanah's VC circus

How Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund turned into a cautionary tale.

Nov 12

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