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Southeast #7: Israel-inspired utopia on Malaysian soil?

Network School redux and plus a Timor Leste gold rush.

Oct 30, 2025
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Southeast is back this week albeit Malaysia-tinged. The next one will be a wider read.

Today’s brief covers two things:

  • A redux of that kooky Network School (NS) project, now with an Israeli twist.

  • Fortune-hunting in Timor-Leste.

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Let’s start with Network School (NS). I’ve written about this before, but it’s back in the feeds thanks to a video by Nuseir Yassin, better known as Nas Daily.

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Yassin made his name with viral, cringey videos fuelled by toxic positivity. This time, he pushed NS.1

Who doesn’t want to “work out together”? Screengrab taken from Nuseir Yassin/X.

He’s Israeli. So how did he enter Malaysia, not once but twice?

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