Less than three weeks before the budget, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Chang Lih Kang spoke at Universiti Malaya and named the part of the research pipeline he wanted...
Better lecture halls, better hostel rooms and new equipment. Those were the three things Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim named on 9 October, when he tabled Budget 2027 in...
A total of 326,419 diploma and first-degree students entered science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programmes at Malaysia’s public universities between 2023 and March 2026, out of 556,556 entrants, or...
In 1935, a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was made for a doctor born in Penang. His name was Dr Wu Lien-teh. W.W. Cadbury put him...
The first Nobel Prize to be awarded to anyone born in the Asia-Pacific region went to a British army doctor. Ronald Ross won the 1902 prize in physiology or medicine...
When the call from Stockholm came on 7 October, Professor Emeritus Kenso Soai was at his neighbourhood supermarket. By that evening, one of Japan’s biggest newspapers had printed an extra...
Every ringgit in the first four parts of this series is now on its way through Parliament. It becomes law once the Dewan Rakyat, Parliament’s lower house, passes the Supply...
