REFSA - Research for Social Advancement
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REFSA  - Research for Social Advancement

Welcome to REFSA

Research for Social Advancement (REFSA) is a not-for-profit think-tank dedicated to intellectual interaction and open discussion on social, economic and contemporary issues affecting all Malaysians.

Through forward-looking policy research we aim to fill a significant role in the nation’s political, social and economic development.

Our research arm is fast expanding itself in identifying issues and establishing options to underdeveloped or ailing policies related to government institutions and socioeconomics.

COMING SOON!
   
 

Story of Lim Guan Eng
This book tells the story of the current Chief Minister of Penang, Lim Guan Eng, a man jailed twice in his political career for reasons that some believe fulfilled the ruling party's political agenda. In a video interview, Lim looks back at the significant events that led him and his family to where they are today. A free DVD is included with the book as a value-added visual record for leaders.

Format: Book + 1 free DVD
Language: Chinese
Number of pages: 136

 
 

Overcoming Corruption: The Essentials
This book is intended to help policymakers who feel the need to know the basics of tackling corruption. It is being published for the first time in Asia.

The seven essentials – from ‘Political Will’ to ‘Measuring Progress’ – are described clearly and concisely. The practical advice offered derivatives from the author’s experience of heading an anticorruption agency and subsequently working as an anticorruption consultant in some forty-eight countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Bertrand de Speville is an English barrister who served as Solicitor General of Hong Kong and as Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in the years leading to the return of Hong Kong to China. Back in London, where he is based, he became the adviser to the Council of Europe’s Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption from 1997 to 2003 and has been engaged by a number of international development institutions.

   
 

Someone Has to Say it, Might as Well Be Me
Part 2 of Tunku Aziz's compilation of hard-hitting (but always eloquent) articles in the New Straits Times.

 
Other Books

Najib's Challenge: Glory or Oblivion
Speaking For the Reformasi Generation
Karpal Singh, True Malaysian

 

 
 

Announcement

"The Budget: How the Government is Spending OUR Money" Chinese version on sale soon!

Upcoming Tempurung books:
Malaysian Defence
Parliament in Malaysia

 
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Events
Data Resources
Latest Projects
 
 

8th November 2009
Reformasi Generation Speaks: Dialogue with Young Leaders, Nurul Izzah and Liew Chin Tong.
Han Chiang College, Penang

7th November 2009
Budget Training. The federal budget workshop and training on 7th November 2009, with John Fluharty and Robert Cushing.
Equatorial Hotel

1st October 2009
Straight Talk by YB Mulia Senator Tunku Abdul Aziz launch at the Royal Selangor Golf Club on 1st October 2009, with Tan Sri Robert Phang and Tun Mohammed Hanif bin Omar.
Royal Selangor Golf Club

 

 

 

 

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Tempurung Guides

In a nutshell...

REFSA has now embarked on its first range of books: the Tempurung Guides. This guides advances the objective of REFSA to educate and encourage discussion by producing thoroughly researched and relevant books on socio-political matters.

The name of the guides is taken from the Malay proverb “seperti katak di bawah tempurung” (“like a frog beneath a coconut shell”) which is an analogy for a sheltered or naive person. The Tempurung Guides aims to uncover the coconut shell and explain the facts of the institutions and issues that beset government and society in a simple and straightforward manner.

 
 

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