https://www.scmp.com/rss/500786/feed Charles Santiago is the Member of Parliament for Klang and Chair of Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The latest Asean Summit, the 36th of its kind, was organised under the theme of a “cohesive and responsive Asean”. In a 27-page statement published at the end of the event, this year‘s chair, Vietnam, said the leaders of the 10-member bloc had made commitments to upholding “Asean unity, solidarity and centrality”. On the eve of the summit, fishermen off the coast of Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, rescued about 100 stranded Rohingya refugees. They were driven to intervene after... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3103343/asean-falling-short-duty-protect-citizens-human-rights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3103343/asean-falling-short-duty-protect-citizens-human-rights?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:45:14 +0000 If there is one lesson to draw from the Pakatan Harapan government’s first year in office in Malaysia, it is that change takes time. In May 2018, the coalition – of which I am a part, representing the constituency of Klang as a Member of Parliament – swept to power against the odds. Our victory ended 61 years of uninterrupted, and increasingly authoritarian, rule by the Barisan Nasional coalition. There is no denying that the vote was the electorate’s way of expressing disgust with the alleged... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3009575/mahathirs-pakatan-harapan-has-mixed-track-record-changing-human?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3009575/mahathirs-pakatan-harapan-has-mixed-track-record-changing-human?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 May 2019 10:38:31 +0000