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Featured Work, Other, Travel - Jan 16, 2012 20:33 - 0 Comments

So you want to be an astronaut?

Discovery Channel Magazine, January 2012. Apollo 11

“Planned a mission to Mars lately? Ever replaced a gyro on an orbiting telescope travelling at 17,600mph in a full vacuum?”

There just aren’t enough recruitment ads like this. These are the opening lines of NASA’s guide to employee benefits for its next intake of astronaut candidates – which is open for applications right now. Being an astronaut has been a dream to young people ever since the dawn of the Mercury and Vostok programs, but for a select few, it can be a reality.

But have you got what it takes to be an astronaut? And just what is it that you need to become one? To find out, DCM assembled some of the most knowledgeable voices imaginable: the head of astronaut selection at NASA, and two of the nine surviving men who have not only gone into space, but walked on the surface of the moon. You can’t get better advice than that.

To see this article as it ran, as Discovery Channel Magazine’s cover story, click here: Discovery_How to become an astronaut

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Big Interviews, Economics, Foreign Exchange, Malaysia, Politics - Oct 10, 2011 14:44 - 0 Comments

Zeti turns vocal on IMF

Asiamoney, October 2011DrZeti

It is a queasy sort of a day when Asiamoney meets Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, at Washington DC’s Four Seasons Hotel in September, and not just because of the jetlag and the changeable weather. We meet during a period of miserable uncertainty in world markets: the eurozone in crisis, the US staring at a double-dip recession, and markets looking hopefully to the IMF/World Bank annual meeting to provide some direction, which they utterly fail to do.

For Zeti, the mood is not as bad as it is for some others: Malaysia is basically doing fine, and while it will clearly slow as a result of global problems, it would be a surprise if its growth rates dipped below 4% at any point in the next 12 months. But what’s striking about this meeting is that the normally reticent and softly-spoken Zeti has some unusually strong opinions about problems in the west – and how to fix them.

That’s because, having worked through the Asian financial crisis – she was rising through the Bank Negara ranks at the time and became governor in its aftermath, in May 2000 – she believes there are clear lessons about the process of recovery that the west has not yet shown much sign of taking on board.

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Big Interviews, Economics, Featured Work, Foreign Exchange, From the Vault, Malaysia, Politics - Oct 1, 2007 9:52 - 0 Comments

Mahathir Mohamed, Emerging Markets, October 2007

With MahathirEmerging Markets, October 2007

Putrajaya is a curious place. Though few outside of Malaysia have heard of it, it is the country’s federal administrative centre, founded in 1995 to take the government departments out of nearby Kuala Lumpur. It’s a place of resplendent architectural daring: mosques, palaces, convention centres, and five extraordinary bridges over a 650-hectare man-made lake. But the most striking thing about it is this: there’s no-one there.

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