Malaysia’s General Election Stand-off: Will the revolution be web-streamed?

Malaysia’s general election on 5th May has seen the world’s longest-incumbent elected government claim another term of office, yet appears also to have radically, perhaps permanently, altered the country’s political culture. After the closest and most bitter electoral contest in national history, the victory of the Barisan Nasional coalition, in power since 1957, has been …

General Election 13 in Malaysia: The view from UNMC

Following on the success of the University’s Tri-Campus Language Teaching Conference in September, a second gathering of staff working in Modern Languages and Cultures from all three University of Nottingham campuses was held in Malaysia last week. A UK delegation, led by Professor Judith Still, Head of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, …