Malaysian progress towards institutional autonomy slows

It’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t, as minister seeks course for freedom

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January 15, 2019

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January 15, 2019

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Change is slow: ‘after so many years of control, of conformity, of being servile, you’ve just lost any sense of being free’

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