Foundation Supports Development of Alternative Lawyers Elections in Korea, France and the US showed how political campaign manifestoes and party statements are posted and debated in the internet. In a speech to the leadership of Parti Gerakan, FNF Project Director Rainer Heufers introduced the channels of communication in the internet. The Korean presidential campaign 2002 [...]
Davos, Switzerland 24-25 January Steven Gan Over two days in Davos, editorial leaders of the world’s main media companies met with some of the most successful content entrepreneurs on the Internet to discuss the convergence, synergy, competition and rivalries between Internet-based communication on the one hand, and paper-based and broadcast news media on the other. [...]
Gerakan Party trains Iraqi MPs in Malaysia Gerakan Party and Friedrich Naumann Foundation have organised a tour for Iraqi parliamentarians to study Malaysia’s constitutional and parliamentary systems 10 members of the Constitutional Review Committee in the Iraqi Parliament were given the chance to study in-depth the Malaysian federal system and its model of national unity. [...]
FNF Malaysia Project Manager Dr. Busarin Dusadeeisariyawong speaking to a Malaysian audience at the White Coffee Talk in Kuala Lumpur. FNF Malaysia Project manager flew to Kuala Lumpur to speak on Thailand’s upcoming referendum on the draft 2007 constitution at the White Coffee Talk organised by the Party Gerakan Rakyat on 8 August. As a [...]
The publication released by the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC) in March this year, entitled “New Economic Model for Malaysia Part 1” (hereinafter referred to as the “NEM report”) represents the government’s blueprint for the country’s economy as we move towards the year 2020. As such, the ideas contained in the New Economic Model (NEM) [...]
Political parties are a key component of liberal democracy. The policies they espouse ? if they are in power, the legislations they introduce – have direct effects on the lives of Malaysian. That is why Malaysia’s Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (www.IDEAS.org.my) decided to make engagements with political parties a key part of their [...]
A new FNF publication by Jules Maaten, the incoming Project Director for the Philippines. It sheds light on the newly elected Philippine President and his cabinet.
HerStory Malaysia, supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, is a project by five distinguished Malaysian women artists who want to create spaces for women to come together and learn how to share their stories with others using artistic platforms like filmmaking. Their ongoing HerStory Films Project seeks to collect stories about love, sex, [...]
Succeeding the inauguration of President Benigno Aquino III, the euphoria of the Filipinos lingered. As a result of a previous unpopular government, people anticipated seeing changes, a fresh start of an efficient and trustworthy regime. With Aquino’s pragmatic approach, his cabinet is a handsome mix of 26 old and new faces. 12 of his cabinet [...]
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