Malaysia's Floods Expose Catastrophic Policy Failure
Poor planning, slow response, lack of empathy
By: Murray Hunter
The warning last July by Malaysian opposition parliamentarian Nurul Izzah to the government to prepare for the approaching monsoon season went totally unheeded. Now that admonition has come back to haunt a government that has far too long appeared to put the contest for power above the exercise of governance, generating widespread popul…
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