Sitemap - 2021 - Murray Hunter
Where do entrepreneurial opportunities come from?
Book Review: In search of the infinite: A meditator’s journey of spiritual discovery
The five types of thinking we use
The distillation of essential oils Part 1
What Makes a Personal Care Company Successful?
PBM’s ‘Great Reset’ narrative needs deeper scrutiny
Short-sighted race organizers hindering the development of Thailand as a runners’ destination
Helping Consumers Make the Choice
Many Thai sex workers say they are happy in their Jobs
No room for "Asian" management paradigms in Asian business schools?
From start up to international in just one step
Floods expose catastrophic failure in public policy
Sarawak State Election: GPS landslide is more than just an election victory
Does Intrapreneurship exist in Asia?
Alternatives To The Great Reset
The Origin of Natural Aromatic Materials
Australian kesom oil - A new essential oil for the flavour and fragrance industry
A Framework for New Essential Oil Development
Indonesia's New Capital: A New Nusantarian Era?
Elderly Villager Arrests Backfire on Thai Government
The emerging halal cosmetic and personal care market
How the Malay elite hijacked Malaysia
The Emerging Cosmetic & Personal Care Cottage Industry in Thailand
The Challenge to Malaysia's Malay Supremacy Narrative
How we see the world around us
Skills, personal competencies and enterprise capabilities throughout the organization lifecycle
New Business Ideas No. 16: The Dim Sim or dimmy
New Business Ideas No. 15: Making your own music label
New Business Ideas No. 14: Freshwater Yabbies
How Ketuanan Melayu became an ideology of greed
There is no such person as an entrepreneur, just a person who acts entrepreneurially
The Evolution of Business Strategy
The Rise of Community and Micro Enterprises in Thailand’s Deep South
Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities: What’s wrong with SWOT?
New Business Ideas No. 13: That "superfood" Tempeh
Knowledge, Understanding and the God Paradigm
How Running Meditation Can Enhance Performance
A typology of entrepreneurial opportunity
Perpetual self conflict: finding true nature
The personal paradigm approach to understanding the nature of entrepreneurs
New Business Ideas No. 12: The growing up-market stall food trend in Asia - Mobile Pizza
New Business Ideas No. 11: Kek lapis (Layered Cake)
Dependent origination as a natural governing law
Dependent origination as a natural governing law
New Business Ideas No. 10: Taking a new approach to "birdsnest"
The plight of academic freedom in Malaysia
New Business Ideas No. 9: Make your own natural fine fragrances
Pakatan Harapan has to radically change just to survive
Enriching the Sustainability Paradigm
The struggle between two visions of Malaysia
The Zimbabwization of Malaysia
A 'Malaysian Malaysia' through a reformist's eyes
New Business Ideas No. 8: The Gourmet Pie
Pakatan Harapan: On recapturing Putra Jaya
How culture creates and transfers entrepreneurial and innovative potential
New Business Ideas No. 7: Fast food Sausage meal
Is it time for Air Asia to reinvent itself?
Thailand: International Tourism May Take Years to Recover
Malaysia in crisis: political instability and feelings of hopelessness
Repressive Regulation is Doing Irreparable Damage to the Nation
The Dark Forces Changing Malaysian Society
Asia-Pacific at the Crossroads - The Implications for Australian Strategic Defense Policy
My Say: A new economic paradigm for Malaysia’s multiple challenges
Australia's National Security Paper: Did it amount to lost opportunities?
Australia in the "Asian Century" or is it Lost in Asia?
2022 Budget Racially Configured, Election Targeted
The immorality of Victoria's prostitution laws
The great Australian defence strategy delusion
Australia's tsunami of the aged
Mid Life Crisis and Transition
Fifty years of the New Economic Policy (NEP) hasn’t worked
What fragrance tells us about personality
Malaysia’s 12th Plan: In search of a realistic new socio-economic strategy
My Say: Reset the 12MP’s approach to poverty
Why Malaysian Universities Are Performing Poorly
Are Buddhist Dharma Practices an Alternative to Seeing a Therapist?
Revitalizing manufacturing enterprise in the post-industrial void
Looking for New Breakthrough Products in Personal Care
12th Plan: Cross Examining its Poverty Measurements, Policies and Programmes
Cognitive Traps: Heuristics, Bias, Misconceptions, Fallacies and Abstract Inferences
No one party can rule after GE15
A Short History of Business and Entrepreneurial Evolution during the 20th Century
Opposition take-up issue of government ban on Malaysian’s undertaking farm work in Australia
Australian government should reconsider country’s security
Australia’s New ASEAN Farm Worker Visa Hits Snag from Malaysia
Malaysia needs to look at its own sources of haze generation first
Same old mistakes in 12MP, but few solutions
Foreign experts commented on the creation of the AUKUS trilateral partnership
New Business Ideas No. 6: Enzyme based energy drink
How emotions influence how we see the world
New Business Ideas No. 5: Baked potatoes
Malaysia introducing Harsh New Equity Restrictions
New Business Ideas No. 4: "Veggie" Burgers
Local currency may protect against financial crises, flight of capital
Malaysia Introducing National Biometric Database Registry
The Financialization of the Art World and the Cannibalization of Creativity
Walking under a ladder: Superstition and ritual as a cognitive bias in management decision making
Malaysia: Corruption Cripples Healthy SMEs
Bumiputera equity rule highlights catastrophe in public policy
Has the intelligence community compromised 'Australia in the Asian Century'?
New Business Ideas No. 3: Sushi at the Pasar Malam
New Business Ideas No. 2: "Banh Mi" Roast Meat Baguettes
New Business Ideas No. 1: Rolled Ice Cream
The Stages of Economic Development from an Opportunity Perspective: Rostow Extended
The Wheel of Samsara as descriptive dysfunctional organizational typologies
Whither Malaysia: Sabah and Sarawak
Sea Shepherd: eco-terrorists or the front line to protect social justice?
Why Pakatan Doesn’t Deserve To Be The Federal Government
Australia needs to reconsider the acquisition of nuclear weapons
An Islamic Approach to Business & Organization
Obama: Desperately seeking legacy
Can Bersatu survive the next general election?
What's with all the hype - a look at aspirational marketing
AFP using hacking software from group aiding human rights abusing nations
What Pakatan Harapan must do to win Government
Trump’s ‘spoiler’ campaign for the Clintons turning into fierce feud for US Presidency
The Pell Acquittal Exposes Australia’s Kangaroo Court System
Why we should care about Julian Assange
Kamala Harris' hollow visit to South-East Asia
How bureaucracies are edging closer to dominate societies
Do Confucian Principled Businesses Exist in Asia?
From Europe, to the US, Japan, and onto China: The evolution of the automobile
Europe: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue
How Afghanistan will influence geo-politics in the region
Foreign Infiltration into the Australian Public Service
Malaysia gets a reconstituted Perikatan Nasional government
The arrival of petroleum; Rockefeller, and the lessons he taught us
Are Thai banks ripping off consumers?
Muhyiddin’s resignation deepens Malaysia’s political crisis
Biden’s South-East Asia Doctrine
Not all opportunities are the same: A look at the four types of entrepreneurial opportunity
Malaysian Premier Stages Daring Move to Stay in Power
On Some of the Misconceptions about Entrepreneurship
On Some of the Misconceptions about Entrepreneurship
Do we have a creative intelligence?
The Reality of Entrepreneurs in Malaysia
Is the MACC just a political tool?
Australia-China Relationship Chills
The forgotten issues of climate change
Rethinking Australia’s Defense and Security
Lessons from the Invention of the airplane and the Beginning of the Aviation Era
Buyer Beware in the Malaysian Franchise Industry
There is corruption on all sides of politics
Narrative has become more important than the truth
One Man, Multiple Inventions: The lessons and legacies of Thomas Edison
The New Rules of Running for the Over 50s
Vocational Education: A new driver for economic diversity in ASEAN?
Dual Pricing for running events is sports racism
The Over 50s Running Revolution in Asia
Panda Politics and the Thai Home Food Delivery Industry
Singapore’s Retirement Dilemma
The ugly side of running in Thailand: Age category doping
Malaysia needs to avoid becoming a lockdown loser
Thailand’s new international gateway U-Tapao set to spur growth
Why Kuala Lumpur could be on its way to becoming the sex capital of Asia
DMCA abuse: how corporations are using US copyright law to harass and silence individuals
The Golden Age of UMNO is on the Wane
Can Sabah, Sarawak, and Semenanjung Really Form a Nation?
Sarawak Reenacts Independence from Britain 50 years Ago
Asia’s Air Transport Industry in Crisis
Thailand and the expatriate experience
Geo–cultural strategy for Eurasia
Malaysia’s underground student prostitution industry
Widening class division in Thailand
People tend to start businesses for the wrong reasons
Why Business Schools within ASEAN are "Second Class"
The emergence of a new patrimonial art
Reinventing Asia’s Tourism Sector
Entrepreneurship as a Means to Create Islamic Economy
Australia Opens Gate for Asean Agriculture Workers
Muslim Australia and the search for a solution to the “War on Terror”
The Malay Polity: Total disconnect with the Rakyat
Redefining innovation to alleviate graduate unemployment
The growing gender imbalance in higher education: Where have all the boys gone?
Singapore’s Controversial Internal Security Act (ISA)
The Malay Search for ‘Dignity’
The danger of climate change evangelism
Islamic education’s desperate plight in Southern Thailand
Who Really Rules Australia? - Donald Horne revisited
Finding a new level of democratic empowerment in Malaysia: The village consultative committee
Higher Education is Not What it Was Before Say Dons
Muhyiddin’s new tool to shore up power: University Boards
Changing the economic paradigm through developing community enterprises in rural areas
Undercover of National Security
What should be in Malaysia’s White Paper on defense
Malaysian Halal Abuses Alleged in Oz Abattoirs
UMNO-PAS will win the next general election
Bringing Muslims Back to Islam
Crisis, Pain, and Political Instability in Malaysia
Sexual harassment is rampant in Malaysian universities
Malaysia Faces Youth Unemployment Crisis
Alleged Financial and operational Irregularities at MUIS
Forget politics, focus on what needs to be done
Covid-19 Likely to Accelerate a Business Environment Revolution
Islamic Assault on Malaysia’s Higher Education
Malaysia’s past damns its future
Thailand’s Tourism Sector Struggles to Rebound
The Dominance of “Western” Management Theories in South-East Asian Business Schools
‘Tawhidic-Singularity’ as a New Philosophy of Islam
Natural Building as a Community Game Changer
Why Malaysian university research still has a long way to go
Rampant academic dishonesty in Malaysia
More Abuses Alleged in Singapore Islamic Body
Closet Christians in Malaysia: Proselytism or politics?
Where is Saudi Arabian Society Heading?
Anatomy of Malaysian Corruption: The State Level
How Malaysia Became a Kleptocracy
Singapore Electoral Results Present the Opposition a Golden Opportunity
Why there is no academic freedom in Malaysia
Quantum Islam: Towards a New Worldview
Is a National Unity Government Possible?
A Critical Essay on Islamic Freedom in ASEAN
Thailand’s Deep South Part 5: The Phantom Insurgency
Thailand’s Deep South Part 4: The Surveillance State
Is Singapore Western Intelligence's 6th Eye?
Thailand’s Deep South Part 3: Optimism Despite Spike in Violence, Covid Crisis
Malaysia’s Massive Foreign Worker Dependency
Thailand’s Deep South Part 2: The Changing Nature of the Insurgency
Thailand’s Deep South Part 1: Cultural Evolution During the Conflict
Dharma Art of Suan Moke, Chaiya, Surat Thani, Thailand
Resetting Higher Education: Returning to the Community
Malaysia’s Planners See Yet Another Mirage
A new vision for Malaysia (Part 2)
A new vision for Malaysia (Part 1)
Overhauling Malaysia’s Democracy
Documents Allege Corruption in Malaysia’s Halal Certification Process
Malaysia’s Pakatan Harapan: History’s Blip
Cabals, Feudalism, and Apartheid: Will these institutions damn Malaysia's future prosperity?
Medical Malpractice Nightmare in Malaysia
Molestation and Sexual Abuse in Malaysia's Islamic Schools
Malaysia’s Grandiose Education Ambitions a Mess
Incest, rape and pedophilia in the Malay Heartlands
Malaysia’s Public Universities Falling Behind
Malaysia’s Lagging Agriculture Sector
Malaysian Civil Service’s Cancerous Culture
Patients betrayed: Malaysian Medical Council Protects its Own
Malaysia’s Monarchy Re-Emerges
Petronas: Malaysia’s Ailing Financial Lifeline
Malaysian Regimes Change, Public Policy No
The Collapse of Malaysian Private Universities (updated)
Depressing Déjà vu for Malaysia’s Narcotics Nightmare
Fear, Lost Hopes, and Thailand’s Milocracy
Malaysia’s Sarexit Nightmare (updated)
Malaysia’s Looming Food and Water Catastrophe
Malaysia desperately needs a new national narrative
Islamic State’s appeal in Malaysia
Corruption, Privilege, and Retribution in Malaysia
Malaysian Foreign Worker Exploitation: Dark Legacy of Slavery
Animism is alive and well in Malaysia: what can we learn?
Power and Corruption within Malaysia’s Leadership
Do Asian Management Paradigms Exist? A look at four theoretical frames. Part 2
Do Asian Management Paradigms Exist? A look at four theoretical frames. Part 1
Malaysia’s New Political Normal
The Shocking Truth About MH370
Malaysia’s GLCs: Development Tools or Corruption Vehicles?
The Psychosis of Organizations: A Continuum
The Failed Promise of Malaysia’s New Economic Policy
Poverty: Malaysia’s Hidden Crisis
Imagination may be more important than knowledge: The eight types of imagination we use.
GE15: The Coming Battle for the Malay Heartland
Malaysia’s Stolen Democracy: Local Government
BOOK REVIEW: Hidden Scorpion by Warren Reed
Islamic Radicalism Blossoms in a Rural Malaysian State.
Is it Time for a Bhikkhuni Sangha in Thailand?
Malaysia: Permanent Ethnic Malay Polity
Curing Malaysia’s National Psychosis
Is Singapore's Cadre System responsible for a groupthink culture?
Malaysia’s Deep State Part 5: Ketuanan Melayu
Malaysia’s Deep State Part 4: The Civil Service
Malaysia’s Deep State Part 3: The Islamists
Malaysia’s Deep State Part 2: The Monarchy
Malaysia’s Deep State Part 1: The Special Branch
How Australia Spies On its Own Citizens
Who makes public policy in Malaysia?
A review of issues within SE Asia, from both my past and contemporary writing