• Can Malaysia emerge as a mature democracy? BBC World Service, Jun 22, 2025.

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• ‘Where are the women?’: Academic slams gender gap in media, politics, New Straits Times, Jun 11, 2025.
   

• Don’t forget the workers in trade war talk, says scholar, Free Malaysia Today, Jun 10, 2025.
   

• Sabahan lecturer leads US-based Southeast Asia Council, The Star, May 27, 2025.
   

• Sabahan scholar Vilashini Somiah to lead Southeast Asia Council, FreeMalaysiaToday, Apr 29, 2025.
   

• Sabahan scholar makes history as first head of regional council, Daily Express, Apr 18, 2025.
   

• Dr Vilashini Somiah Makes History with Prestigious International Appointment, Astro Ulagam, Apr 18, 2025.
   

• Pensyarah UM dilantik Pengerusi Majlis Asia Tenggara, Utusan Malaysia, Apr 17, 2025.
   

• Sabahan elected Chair of Southeast Asia Council, marking historic first, Borneo Post, Apr 17, 2025.
   

• UM Scholar Vilashini Somiah Makes History as First Southeast Asian Chair at Prestigious Asia Council, Varnam Malaysia, Apr 17, 2025.
   

• Don’t underestimate rural indigenous women, says Malaysian anthropologist, The Star, Jan 12, 2024.
   

• Rural communities still reeling from post-Covid trauma, says anthropologist, The Star, Jan 12, 2024.
   

• Step Up and Speak Out for Fat People, The Star, Oct 28, 2023
   

• Fat People Need More Acceptance, Less Judgement, The Star, Oct 27, 2023
   

• UM Mental Health Study On Nabawan Residents, The Daily Express, Oct 5, 2023
   

• Research On Rural Sabah Entrepreneurs Impacted by Covid-19, The Borneo Post, Aug 23, 2023
   

• Gender Studies Teaches Us to Believe in Equality, for a More Respectful, Caring, Equal Society, The Star, Mar 10, 2023
   

• Education for All, The Star, Jan 22, 2023
   

• Book Review: Voices from The Sulu Sea, The Star, May 15, 2022
   

• Book Review | Sabah's Irregular Migrants Straddling Two Worlds, Malaysiakini, Mar 27, 2022