Author: Datuk Mohammad Medan Abdullah

Fly by Buduk Ubung aka Gunung Mulu

It was a good day to fly onboard the Twin Otter on the Miri to Bario sector on Thursday 18, November 2021. The flight was less than half full, a paradoxical truth knowing that usually there are many looking for vacant seats on the limited numbers available on the small

Environmental labelling on food products

The future of this nation depends on our ability to produce food and fibre to sustain the world. —  Phil Bredesen, former governor of Tennessee A recent report on market updates and insight in the e-Newsletter, Matrade Links, which highlighted the latest trend on food labelling in the UK caught

Gladstone LNG: An aboriginal twist of things

On October 26, 2017, a few months after I joined Bintulu Port as the new Group CEO, I was happy to be back in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. The purpose of the visit was to see the Gladstone LNG Project, which was by then in full operations, and to study the

A cry for an alternative paradigm

I would hazard to opine that every right-thinking person would subscribe to the evident truth that the environment is undergoing a major change. It is a change for the worst, and fast becoming a present and imminent danger to all living things. The naysayers or rather the deniers, are however

Multinational effort and tale of dedication

Turning Sudan into an oil exporter When I first set foot in Khartoum in 1997, I was amazed at the beauty of the landscape. The most dramatic scene was watching the merging of the two rivers, the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The contrast between the waters of the

The conundrum of cross-legal culture

My former lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya, Dr Alima Joned, was a panelist at the recent webinar, jointly organised by my law faculty alumni, PARFUM, and The Honorable Society of Middle Temple and The Malaysia Middle Temple Alumni Association. The title of her panel was The Conundrum

The frame of things

In a world of colours and multiple shades, of different tones, sounds and musical scores, of the exotic and esoteric, and of the fantastic and the beautiful, we have traded it all for the blase, debased and the unimaginative. We have lost our sense of wonder and awe. Our body,

Leadership development — timely and impactful conditioning

To have an intensive immersion in a world class business school environment, in a timely manner for the aspiring top executive, is a useful intervention to ensure impactful and effective leadership. Timely, in the sense that the requisite conditioning has to be done just before the appointment to a critical

Key role of LNG in Asian energy market

The global energy market dynamics will see Asia rising as the primary driver of the global demand growth in energy into the foreseeable future, with liquified natural gas (LNG) playing a pivotal role in meeting that energy need. As a producer and nett exporter of LNG, and with sunk investments

Reflections on the eve of 58th Malaysia Day

On anniversaries, we tend to make heroic vows and promises which we can’t keep. Perhaps our intent is sincere and magnanimous but more often than not, we’ll find out on the anniversaries that follows that we are more disappointed than satisfied, because of the vows and promises that we have