INTERVIEW | Among the parliamentary reforms newly-minted Dewan Rakyat Speaker Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof is looking into, is to form a good select committee system.

“Much of the debates you see today is in the main chamber, but we are looking at mature democracies, a lot of the work is done through committees that tend to be bipartisan.

“People really engage well and professionally (in select committees). I think that is where we should be moving,” Mohamad Ariff told Malaysiakini in an interview at his office in Parliament yesterday...