Nations have long measured the movement of their people as loss or gain, but Malaysia is attempting something more nuanced: a formal recognition that its citizens abroad are not absent, but extended. On August 7th, in Singapore, the Malaysian government launched MyHeart Global Connect — a fifteen-member advisory council drawn from ten countries — to weave diaspora expertise into the country's talent strategy without demanding return as the price of contribution. It is a quiet but consequential reframing, one that treats the scattered as still belonging, and belonging as still useful.
Malaysia Launches Global Advisory Council to Harness Diaspora Expertise
Politics & Governance