Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

Food wastage must stop 

The ASEAN Post recently published an article about the fact that while a large portion of people – including children - in Southeast Asia are starving, tonnes of food is wasted every day. The image is a terribly depressing one and shows the peculiarities of the world that we live in today. Still, it would not be fair to suggest that countries are not aware of this ironic state of events and aren’t doing their part to at least attempt to solve the problem.

21 April 2019
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Malaysia’s champion for ‘invisible’ women

Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Malaysia’s new deputy prime minister, said one of the darkest moments of her life came in 2015 when her husband Anwar Ibrahim, the former opposition leader, was sent to jail for a second time.In hindsight, she ended up appreciating the moment in one sense as it pushed her back into politics in an effort to free him.

9 August 2018
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