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“Malaysia needs serious efforts to improve its accountability and transparency” Adib Rawi Yahya/theSun “ IN the past, a total (household) income of RM800–RM1,000 could support six people or more. Nowadays, you can barely support three people, and even that is a nightmare ... Malaysia has developed, but the rakyat have been left behind because incomes have not increased.” These are the popular opinions and beliefs among Malaysians who participated in our 2019 joint World Bank-Univ...

“...In the past, a total income of RM800–RM1,000 could support six people or more. Nowadays, you can barely support three people, and even that is a nightmare... Malaysia has developed, but the rakyat [people] has been left behind because incomes have not increased.” These are the popular opinions and beliefs among Malaysians who participated in our 2019 joint World Bank-University of Malaya qualitative study on living standards in Malaysia. The Kuala Lumpur skyline is emblematic of a mod...

A British think tank ranks Estonia’s prosperity 21st highest in the world By 328shares The Legatum Institute, a British think tank, ranks Estonia’s prosperity 21st in the world among 167 ranked countries. According to the think tank, Estonia performs highly in the natural environment and the economic quality categories of the index, but is the weakest in the health category. However, the institute says the biggest improvement compared with a decade ago came in the health category. The i...

BBC News By Waiyee Yip image captionTele-health start-ups allow "shame-free" access to sexual health products and advice When Singapore resident Nadia* visited a local clinic to get tested for sexually transmitted infections (STI) three years ago, she left the doctors office feeling ashamed. The elderly woman doctor there had talked down to her and dumped a stack of pamphlets on her "as if I was stupid", the 24-year-old student recalled. "I felt judged the entire time too - as if it was my fau...

Is there a place in sociology for online panels and why “poll” was needed before the All-Belarusian people’s Assembly On February 24, 2021, Belarus in Focus weekly analytical monitoring, in partnership with the Press Club, the “Our Opinion” expert community of Belarus and the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS), held an international online meeting to discuss the role of sociology in understanding what is happening in Belarus. The main speakers were sociologists and rese...

The intertwined prolems behind mass shootings in US Apr 04, 2021, 16:03 （China.org.cn）It was only a few days ago that I was writing an article about the shooting spree at spas in Atlanta that left eight dead, mostly Asian American women. Today I woke up to see a stream of news about a shooting in my home state, Colorado. The reported death toll kept rising. By the time the murderer was being led away, handcuffed, in his boxers, nearly an hour after the carnage began, 10 people had perished....

The Local Catherine Edwards Share this article Paul Rapacioli is co-founder of The Local and author of a book about Swedish values. Photo: Sofia Runarsdotter Catherine Edwards 09:37 CET The Locals Book Club is looking at this non-fiction book by one of our founders about how Swedens reputation is used and misused around the world. Published in 2018, Good Sweden, Bad Sweden by Paul Rapacioli draws on his years of experience managing The Local in a world where fake news and polarised narratives ...

Montage by Niko Yaitanes/ Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash.  Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey on civic knowledge found that barely half of American adults can name all three branches of government, and 20 percent cannot name any rights protected by the First Amendment. Remarkably, these figures constitute  improvements on the results of the previous 15 ...

Conservatives arent more fearful than liberals, study finds Stephanie Pappas © Provided by Live Science Business man afraid of his own shadow monster concept on grungy background. Are conservatives more afraid of threats than liberals? Political psychologists have long found evidence that people on the right are more sensitive to scary stuff, on average, than people on the left, a basic psychological difference thought to drive some political disagreements between the two gro...

Beyond the elite: Taking protest and public opinion seriously in the Kurdistan Region February 24, 2021 Share In early December 2020, at least eight people were killed and hundreds of others were injured during violent protests in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) sparked by deteriorating economic conditions and the government’s failure to pay public sector salaries. Seven of the dead, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed when security forces opened fire on demonstrators. The offic...