Throughout a career spanning more than four decades, Tan Sri Kadir Mohamad worked tirelessly but so quietly that not many are aware of his invaluable contributions to Malaysia.
As Malaysia concluded the first month of its Asean chairmanship in January 2025, there is a tendency by some commentators to measure its potential and pulse on the basis of one-off events, one of which is the Asean Foreign Ministers Retreat in Langkawi.
From TAN SRI HASMY AGAM Cyberjaya Apart from serving at Wisma Putra and the United Nations, the letter writer was chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia from 2010 to 2016.
PETALING JAYA: After more than a month of operating without a new chairman and commissioners, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) cannot play its role effectively in defending human rights in Malaysia, say several civil society groups.
JOURNALISTS covering foreign affairs back in the late 1980s and 1990s always looked forward to briefings by the Foreign Ministry’s secretary-general Tan Sri Ahmad Kamil Jaafar (pic).