Insight - Malaysia’s NRP: Failure is simply not an option

Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz: "I strongly believe that Malaysians will rise above this as per many past crises, through our proven resilience and indomitable Malaysian cooperative spirit."

MALAYSIA, like many other countries in South-East Asia, is battling a surge in Covid-19 infections, due to, among others, new highly infectious and deadlier variants such as the Delta Plus.

The challenges to public health have also caused economic distress and a less-than-ideal domestic political climate. There has even been an unfair assessment that Malaysia is becoming a failed state (“Malaysia Is Staggering Down the Road to Failed Statehood” by Daniel Moss, Bloomberg Opinion).